All posts tagged with legalization
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-(Natural News) On November 3, 2020, history was made in the American war on drugs. Drugs won. Oregon moved to decriminalize all drugs, even hard ones like meth and heroin as five other states moved to legalize cannabis in some form. Fast forward to this week and a top leader in the US House of Representatives announced […]
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-(Natural News) A Twitter user shared a mosaic of Democratic vice presidential candidate Kamala Harris consisting of African American individuals she imprisoned and held past their release dates to ensure the state did not lose cheap prison labor. Twitter user The Black Socialist posted the mosaic a day after the debate between Harris and incumbent […]
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-(Natural News) Since the first legal marijuana stores opened their doors in Washington state in 2014, marijuana use has gone up in at least one of the state’s big cities. That’s the finding of a raw sewage analysis that saw scientists traveling to two sewage treatment plants in Tacoma, a city of 200,000 people whose […]
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Alcohol-related deaths declined in prohibition Idaho after neighboring Washington legalized cannabis
-(Natural News) A new study has determined that legalizing cannabis in Washington state has had a profoundly positive impact on the number of alcohol-related deaths in next-door Idaho where cannabis is still prohibited. Economist Benjamin Hansen from the University of Oregon looked at data collected from Google Trends and the Idaho Department of Transportation, revealing […] -
-(Natural News) Marijuana use – in all its forms – was banned in the United States and many other countries for decades. Governments resolutely refused to recognize its myriad health benefits, and for many years anyone pushing for the legalization of marijuana was viewed as promoting drug abuse. In recent years, however, after hard work […]
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-(Natural News) When marijuana was legalized in Washington state in 2012, many observers worried that the move would cause drug use among young people to skyrocket. However, a study shows that legalizing marijuana has had the opposite effect in the state. Research that was published in the Journal of the American Medical Association shows that […]
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-(Natural News) There’s some good news on the health front. According to new research out of Canada, people with anxiety are getting tired of taking benzodiazepines and other side effect-ridden Big Pharma drugs, and are instead switching to all-natural cannabis as a safe and effective alternative. Among 146 anxiety patients who enrolled in Canada’s medical […]
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-(Natural News) A serious oversupply has caused prices of marijuana in Oregon to collapse just three years after lawmakers enacted a recreational cannabis law in the state. Now, many of the state’s licensed growers and retailers alike could be facing bankruptcy. Cannabis farmers reportedly harvested over 2.5 million pounds of marijuana in October alone, 1.3 […]
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-(Natural News) British shoppers can now purchase cannabis oil at Holland & Barrett. U.K.’s leading health retailer has 750 stores. Holland & Barrett announced that the latest product caused a surge in sales since it started flying off the shelves back in January. Sales went up by 37 percent. Cannabis oil, which comes from “a natural compound found […]
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-(Natural News) Most years, few Americans pay much attention to spending bills Congress debates and passes, but this year is different for a couple reasons. First, there is a battle being waged between Democrats and POTUS Donald Trump regarding his demand for a paltry $5 billion in funding for his border wall. Most Republicans have […]
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