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The federal Justice Department pays to help publicize leading criminal justice research that frequently discredits the Conservative government’s “tough-on-crime” agenda. full story
CANNABIS CULTURE - The state-funded California Center for Medicinal Cannabis Research announced that its studies have shown marijuana to have therapeutic value in a report released on February 17. full story
CANNABIS CULTURE - A new California state-sponsored study has found that medical cannabis can reduce pain for patients suffering from HIV/Aids, multiple sclerosis, and cancer. full story
DEA agents have hit another marijuana testing lab not long after it had applied for a license. full story
Laws against cannabis have failed to cut its use around the world and have led to policies that are intrusive, socially divisive and expensive, according to an international group of drug policy experts. full story
Cancer patients, glaucoma patients and others can benefit from medical marijuana, and now a new analysis shows that it can help multiple sclerosis (MS) patients find relief from the muscle spasms that are the hallmark of the debilitating autoimmune disease. full story
Sacked government drugs adviser Prof David Nutt has called for a Royal Commission to investigate whether cannabis should be decriminalised. full story- Mr Ferry... why do you not come out strongly when the RCMP (Or, as it was last week, the OPP) issue press releases with unsubstantiated and alarmist statements about the danger of marijuana cultivation facilities? full story
Here's an easy way to test whether those marijuana cakes are made with the real thing full story
In one of the few scientific developments likely to interest both the Governor of North Dakota and Method Man, scientists at the University of Minnesota have identified the genes in cannabis that allow the plant to produce THC. full story
For 40 years, federal marijuana studies have been conducted in one place - the University of Mississippi. Contracts should be awarded to several different institutions. full story
New research by Polish scientists, Piotr Kupczyk, Adam Reich and Jacek Szepietowski has uncovered a potential use for medicinal cannabis. full story
Patients and doctors can't say enough about the groundbreaking potential of THC as a pharmaceutical. full story
WHYPROHIBITION.CA - Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper has pledged $555,000 to study the links between cannabis and mental illness, and has put evangelical pastor Chris Summerville in charge of the project. full story- Lew Rockwell is running a great piece on one of the newest studies on the anti-cancer properties of Cannabis. full story
One of the world's foremost lung health experts says it's time to legalize marijuana. full story
CANNABIS CULTURE - A Fox News team is offered a look inside the US Government's one and only marijuana farm and research lab, located in Oxford, Mississippi. full story
Not all teenagers smoke marijuana with the goal of getting high. A new study by researchers at the University of B.C. found some teens use marijuana to relieve or manage health problems when other therapies have not worked. full story
Cannabis has been used recreationally and for medicinal purposes for centuries, yet its 60 plus active components are only partly understood. Now scientists have discovered how a compound in cannabis can help cells to function in our bodies, and aid recovery after a damaging event. full story
