Inside this year's conference for the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies.
Apr 29 2013
A researcher in a suit and tie strolls past with a graduate student in rainbow leggings and a red bandana.
Phillip Smith, AlterNet
Apr 26 2013
PTSD is an epidemic among vets returning home -- but marijuana could help them cope.
Phillip Smith, Stop the Drug War
Apr 26 2013
Colorado employers can legally fire marijuana users from their jobs, the state Court of Appeals ruled Thursday in a 2-1 decision.
Carly Schwartz, The Huffington Post
Apr 25 2013
A bill to regulate California's billion-dollar medical marijuana industry cleared a major hurdle Tuesday when the state assembly's public safety committee voted to move it forward.
The first medical marijuana dispensary in Phoenix has opened its doors on the city's east side. The Bloom Dispensary is located near the light rail station at Washington and 44th Streets.
Matthew Donigian, AlterNet
Apr 24 2013
The tragic fate of Norman B. Smith is all you need to know about to see how senseless it is to make consumption of marijuana a crime.
Julia Shumway, Cronkite News Service
Apr 23 2013
When Arizona voters approved the use of medical marijuana in 2010, Steve Cottrell saw a way to combine his laboratory background and his interest in the plant he'd been studying since his 11-year-old son died of cancer more than a decade before.
The Associated Press
Apr 18 2013
The Oregon Senate has passed a bill that would allow people with post-traumatic stress disorder to get a medical marijuana card.
Shaunacy Ferro, Popular Science
Apr 18 2013
The nation's research-grade cannabis is controlled by the National Institute on Drug Abuse, whose mission to curb use is at odds with that of researchers looking to study pot's therapeutic properties.
David Borden, Stop the Drug War
Apr 17 2013
Word just came out that the Illinois House has passed medical marijuana legislation, after several tries. Now it has to go to the Senate. Phil wrote about this and other medical marijuana news in his weekly update.
