Joseph Casias has battled sinus cancer and an inoperable brain tumor for more than a decade. His condition has required extensive treatment and chemotherapy, interferes with his ability to speak, and ...

From multiple sclerosis to post traumatic stress syndrome, medical marijuana is increasingly prescribed to treat a number of conditions. But an analysis of studies compiled by researchers and ...

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I’ve been meaning to write about marijuana for a long time. Since my blog began in 2015, the most common question emailed to me by parents is how to convince their college student to stop marijuana ...

Source: Flickr user Matthew Kenwrick. To say there's been a dramatic shift in sentiment toward marijuana over the past decade is an understatement. In just one decade, the American public went from ...

America in 2014 faces an epidemic of drug overdoses. But it's not heroin, crack cocaine, or methamphetamines that's killing us. It's opioid pain relievers. But new research just published in the ...

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Want to get stoned without breaking federal law? Try exercise. Past research suggests it may trigger the release of natural marijuana-like substances in the brain, and now a small but intriguing new ...

Based on the ideology that millions of Americans are grossly addicted to marijuana, the federal government has approved $3 million to facilitate the fast-track creation of a pharmaceutical drug to ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – A group aiming to expand medical marijuana access in Arkansas says their latest signature submissions leave them confident their issue can be in the hands of voters. An amendment ...

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