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‘I smoked weed like it was crack’: The addiction crisis no one’s talking about

PUFF THE MAGIC DRAG ON – April 27, 2025 - It was fun in the beginning. As a high school student in San Diego, Zach would get high with his friends at an abandoned construction site next to his school. Afterward... Read More...

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D.C. Shuts 50th Weed Shop Amid Cannabis Crackdown

GET DRUNK INSTEAD? – April 24, 2025 - The city is moving aggressively to shut down the once-thriving gray market — a matter of public safety, and also essential for the legal medical cannabis industry to ... Read More...

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‘Days before he died he told us marijuana had ruined his life’ Laura Stack on losing her 19-year-old son

BEWARE – April 2, 2025 - Laura Stack’s oldest child Johnny died by suicide in 2019 after years of struggling with cannabis-induced psychosis. Now she travels the world warning young people of the dangers of the... Read More...

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Pro-marijuana Group Airing Ads Around White House and Mar-a-Lago

BONG BONG BONG – April 1, 2025 - President Donald Trump as a candidate vowed to decriminalize marijuana and make it easier for weed companies to obtain bank accounts and for universities to research the drug. N... Read More...

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Can Legal Weed Make You Sick?

ONE TOKE OVER THE LINE – March 24, 2025 - Zarha Ruiz, branch chief of environmental compliance and manufacturing safety at the Department of Cannabis Control. For cannabis, unlike for brownie mix or Tylenol, th... Read More...

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Alarming Heart Risks for Marijuana Users

EVEN THE STONED DIE YOUNG – March 18, 2024 - The retrospective study found that cannabis users under 50 were more than six times as likely to experience a heart attack compared to non-users. Meanwhile, th... Read More...

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Weed Use During Pregnancy Triples Risk Of Behavioral Problems In Kids

AUDIO – CREATE BAIL MONEY FUND? – March 13, 2025 -“Cannabinoid ingredients can cross the placenta and enter breast milk, potentially affecting brain development,” senior researcher Rosa Alati, head of population hea... Read More...

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New Drug for Mitigation of Cannabis Withdrawal Symptoms

AUDIO – HIGH-Ho – Feb. 14, 2025 - The CDC reports that among individuals who use cannabis, approximately 3 in 10 have cannabis use disorder. The risk of developing cannabis use disorder is even higher for individual... Read More...

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Schizophrenia Cases Triple Due to Heavy Cannabis Use

WEEDS IN THE WIRING – Feb. 4, 2025 - Experts say the new study, which looked at more than 13.5 million medical records of all individuals aged 14 to 65 between 2006 and 2022, adds to growing evidence that heavy... Read More...

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Frequent Marijuana Use May F**k Up Your Memory

VIDEO – WHO AM I? – Jan. 28, 2025 - An example is checking your blind spot when driving down the road,” Gowin said. “When you look back in front of you, you need to remember what you saw in the blind spot before you... Read More...

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Allison Holker’s Daughter Breaks Silence

TALKING ADDICTION – Jan. 11, 2025 - In videos shared by The Shade Room from Weslie Fowler’s Instagram livestream, she speaks openly about everything, from the current state of her family after Stephen “tWitch” ... Read More...

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Massive Study of Young Brains Puts “gateway drug” Theory Into Doubt

RETHINK IT – Jan. 6, 2025 - The gateway drug theory and many other ideas about drug use have been put into question in recent years as more resources are dedicated to understanding substance use, which has been highl... Read More...

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More Teens Using Dangerously Potent Pot for Intense Highs

“People can become psychotic.” – Dec. 22, 2024 - Heidi Lawrence’s daughter was 14 when she began dabbing—heating and inhaling the fumes from powerful globs of marijuana extract. By 15, the girl couldn’t resist the qu... Read More...

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Elton John’s Broken Yellow Brick Road

SATURDAY NIGHT'S ALRIGHT FOR FIGHTING – Dec. 11, 2024 - “I maintain that it’s addictive. It leads to other drugs. And when you’re stoned — and I’ve been stoned — you don’t think normally,” he said. “Legalizing m... Read More...

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Where does that leave marijuana?

TIME WILL TELL – Nov. 11, 2024 - President-elect Donald Trump is expected to come to the White House with a laundry list of policies he wants to change or reverse. The Biden administration has moved to ease longtime ... Read More...

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Cannabis Use Linked to Epigenetic Changes – Cancer Risk

POT IS SO OBSOLETE – Nov. 15, 2024 - Cannabis is a “genotoxic” substance because it damages a cell’s genetic information, which can lead to DNA mutations, accelerated aging, and cancer. To make matters wo... Read More...

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Exposure to Weed in the Womb Can Increase Addiction to Opioids Later in Life

HIGH MODERN FAMILY – Nov. 13, - 2024 - As many as 1 in 5 pregnant women in the U.S. are now using the drug to help with morning sickness, lower back pain or anxiety. Evidence has been growing, however, to sugge... Read More...

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Marijuana Home Delivery Begins in Arizona

HOME SWEET HOME – Oct. 29, 2024 - Officials with the Arizona Dispensaries Association said the new delivery program is expected to expand access across the state. “We are thrilled that the department of health’s p... Read More...

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Will 5 States Legalize Marijuana and Psychedelics This Week?

ECSTASY ON THE BALLOT – Oct. 30, 2024 - The ballot initiatives would allow recreational marijuana use in Florida and the Dakotas, authorize medical marijuana in Nebraska, and decriminalize five natural psychedelics i... Read More...

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Musical Youth – Pass The Dutchie

VIDEO – MUSICAL INTERLUDE – 50,272,624 views - June 17, 2022 - As featured in Netflix’s series Stranger Things, season 4. CONTINUE@YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsyUa63NM1E ... Read More...

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America’s Embrace of Marijuana

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Harris Pledges to Help Black Men by Legalizing Marijuana

IT’S ABOUT TIME – Oct. 14, 2024 - According to FBI data, U.S. law enforcement agencies made roughly 217,000 arrests for marijuana-related offenses last year. Black Americans, who make up 13.7 percent of the U.S. popu... Read More...

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Can America’s Divide on Weed be Receding?

HOPE SO – Sept. 11, 2024 - Twenty-four states and the District of Columbia — representing 53% of the nation’s population — have legalized marijuana. The Justice Department in May proposed to reclassify marijuana from... Read More...

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Pete Davidson Back in Rehab Admitting He Still Can’t Kick Cannabis

AUDIO – He Should read HIGH Confessions of a Cannabis Addict – Sept. 2024 - The comedian was said to be teetering on the brink o... Read More...

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Weed and Liquor and Money

CALIFORNIA SOBER ALL OVER – Aug. 16, 2024 - If you have a sober living facility in your town and then add a medical marijuana dispensary are you creating a healing dichotomy? That’s the situation facing one sm... Read More...

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Daily Marijuana Use Linked to Cancers

LOST IN THE WEED – Aug. 14, 2024 - Cannabis use disorder is diagnosed when a person has two or more of such symptoms as craving weed, becoming tolerant to its effects, using more than intended, using marijuana... Read More...

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Dispensaries See Long Lines on First Day of Recreational Pot Sales

ONE TOKE OVER THE LINE? – Aug. 8, 2024 - Andy Rayburn made history Tuesday, as did the customers at his marijuana dispensary on the first day of recreational cannabis sales in Ohio. At Amplify in Clev... Read More...

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Large Marijuana Operation Busted by NYC Sheriffs

VIDEO – CONFUSING – July 2, 2024 - Behind the unmarked doors of a small storefront was what NYC Sheriff Anthony Miranda described as a million-dollar illegal weed operation, one that included the packaging of marij... Read More...

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Cannabis Linked to Worse COVID-19 Outcomes

GUMMIES TOO? – June 21, 2024 - “What we found is that cannabis use is not harmless in the context of COVID-19. People who reported yes to current cannabis use, at any frequency, were more likely to require hos... Read More...

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North Carolina Gives Approval to Legalizing Medical Marijuana

I’M NOT FEELING WELL – June 20, 2024 - Medical cannabis products are legal in 38 states and the District of Columbia, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures. More than 20 states allow the d... Read More...

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