Source : https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/09/02/middle-aged-parents-are-now-more-likely-to-smoke-weed-than-their-teenaged-kids/ Smoking weed is often seen as an indulgence reserved for the young and the reckless: kids get high, in the popular imagination, but by and large their parents don’t. But new federal data show a stunning reversal of that age-old stereotype. Middle-aged Americans are now slightly more likely to use marijuana than their ...
Pour en lire plus »Navy Veteran walks across country to legalize medical marijuana
Source : http://www.wxow.com/story/32868177/2016/08/29/navy-veteran-walks-across-country-to-legalize-medical-marijuana A Maryland Navy veteran is walking his tiny home across the county to bring awareness to the growing number of homeless veterans, but that’s not it. He’s also walking to legalize medical marijuana. Ras Ible, 58, passed through La Crosse on Monday on his journey to Washington ...
Pour en lire plus »More U.S. adults use pot as laws, attitudes shift
Source : http://www.cbsnews.com/news/marijuana-study-more-us-adults-using-pot/ An increasing number of U.S. adults are using marijuana, and attitudes about the drug are shifting – fewer people perceive pot as harmful, according to a new study published in The Lancet Psychiatry. Though the study cannot answer the question of why more Americans are using marijuana, the researchers say the data ...
Pour en lire plus »Study into Montreal’s ‘filthy’ crack houses provides portrait of vicious cycle of prostitution, binge use and addiction
Source : http://news.nationalpost.com/news/canada/study-into-montreals-filthy-crack-houses-provides-portrait-of-vicious-cycle-of-prostitution-binge-use-and-addiction “There was so much crack in the neighbourhood that users and outreach workers nicknamed the area Rochelaga.” When anthropologist Nelson Arruda explored an east-end Montreal neighbourhood, he expected to find shooting galleries — dark, clandestine places where people inject drugs — and sex slaves addicted to the ...
Pour en lire plus »Fentanyl-Laced Coke May Have Caused Nine Overdoses in 20 Minutes in BC Last Night
Source : http://www.vice.com/en_ca/read/fentanyl-laced-coke-may-have-caused-nine-overdoses-in-20-minutes-last-night Nine people overdosed and one person went into full cardiac arrest late last night after doing a few lines of what they thought was coke in a suburb south of Vancouver. Police say they believe the drugs were laced with fentanyl, raising alarms that more party drugs ...
Pour en lire plus »Grow Canada! Patients Given Green Light To Grow Medicine
Source : http://herb.co/2016/08/13/grow-canada/ Grow Canada! Starting August 24th, according to a new ruling announced by Health Canada, medical cannabis patients can officially grow their own medicine. This comes on the tail of a Federal Court ruling earlier this year striking down the patient grow ban. What will the new law allow? ...
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