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The legalisation of cannabis for medical use in Scotland remains unlikely, despite winning the backing of the SNP conference in Glasgow. The Home Office confirmed to The Scotsman it has no plans to devolve drug laws to Holyrood or review the classification of the plant, which is illegal to...

With a handful of states slated to vote on either medical or full marijuana legalization this November, the pressure is on for the federal government to perhaps reassess its dated policies on the drug. After all, there's no shortage of evidence the legal and cultural stigmas attached to the drug...

With a handful of states slated to vote on either medical or full marijuana legalization this November, the pressure is on for the federal government to perhaps reassess its dated policies on the drug. After all, there's no shortage of evidence the legal and cultural stigmas attached to the drug...

Melbourne - A cannabis pill administered to adults with epilepsy could reduce seizures, Australian researchers said on Wednesday. The drug is the subject of a world-first clinical trial in Australia and New Zealand led by Melbourne researchers. Terry O'Brien, a neurologist at the Royal...

Melbourne - A cannabis pill administered to adults with epilepsy could reduce seizures, Australian researchers said on Wednesday. The drug is the subject of a world-first clinical trial in Australia and New Zealand led by Melbourne researchers. Terry O'Brien, a neurologist at the Royal...

Question from Audience: Isn't the present movement toward the legalization of Marijuana, an expansion of consciousness, evidence of the Octave continuing in a positive direction? Ralph: Well, the octave thing is just a model, you know, and there's lots of different factors at work. The...

So I had a urine drug test today (for a new job) and I passed it! So I decided for a victory joint. Tomorrow I have to go back for a physical. My wife and sister in law told me that they also do another urine drug test during the physical so now I'm shittin' bricks. So I have been drinkin'...

Attorney David Couch, a primary supporter of the Arkansas Medical Marijuana Amendment on the state ballot in November, told members of the Northeast Arkansas Political Animals on Friday that money is the reason why cannabis is not legally sold in the state. "Pharmaceutical companies can't...

Attorney David Couch, a primary supporter of the Arkansas Medical Marijuana Amendment on the state ballot in November, told members of the Northeast Arkansas Political Animals on Friday that money is the reason why cannabis is not legally sold in the state. "Pharmaceutical companies can't...

Do you remember, dear reader, sitting in a Drug Abuse Resistance Education class in elementary school, taking that solemn and sacred vow to never touch drugs? We do. Statistically, most of you have broken that oath. It's no secret that a sizable portion of the college demographic has...

Chico - A past vice presidential candidate for the Libertarian party, speaking in Chico Tuesday, said the country's "drug policy of drug prohibition is the biggest failed policy in the history of the United States of America - second to slavery." The former candidate, Jim Gray, a retired...

Although the period in American History commonly known as prohibition lasted only 13 years, Marijuana has been criminally prohibited in the United States since passage of the 1937 Marijuana Tax Act. 2017 will mark 80 years of marijuana's illegality. So much has changed since 1937, most...

The Obama Administration's Drug Czar Michael Botticelli chatted it up on Politico's Pulse Check podcast recently where he discussed the federal government's approach to drug addiction and rehabilitation, among other topics. But Botticelli did take a moment to discuss marijuana, and specifically...

Portland, Ore. - The budtenders of the Rose City are relentlessly helpful with tips pairing a marijuana strain that is "equal parts fruity and musky" with a stimulating Sichuan dish. As Oregon, the place where empires once clashed over the global trade of beaver furs, glides into a second year...

The people fighting the ballot measure, which would legalize recreational marijuana, keep saying they don't want to see private drug suppliers making big profits here. "It is not about whether an adult can use marijuana in their own home," state Senator Jason Lewis of Worcester said at a debate...

According to a new crime report published last week by the FBI, the Drug War is still a pervasive cause for arrest in the United States. The data, which covers recorded arrests for violent crime and property crime as disclosed by local police departments, revealed that arrests for simple...

Imagine a war that drags on for four decades, costs the American people over a trillion dollars, tears American families apart and makes little to no progress toward the desired outcome. By any measure, that is a failed war. Yet this perfectly describes the war on drugs. Legalizing...

The National Institute on Drug Abuse is a U.S. federal research institute focused on "[advancing] science on the causes and consequences of drug use and addiction ... to apply that knowledge to improve individual and public health. " Though it admits "the majority of people who use marijuana do...

A drug derived from cannabis could dramatically improve the lives of people with epilepsy, new research suggests. Scientists at Great Ormond Street Hospital are currently testing the drug, called Epidiolex, on patients with a rare form of epilepsy called Lennox-Gastaut Syndrome. Patients...

A drug derived from cannabis could dramatically improve the lives of people with epilepsy, new research suggests. Scientists at Great Ormond Street Hospital are currently testing the drug, called Epidiolex, on patients with a rare form of epilepsy called Lennox-Gastaut Syndrome. Patients...