"Those wedded to the status quo of cannabis criminalization have long warned that legalizing the marijuana marketwill result in increased adolescent use. But 10 years following the first states’ decisions to legalize and regulate adult-use cannabis sales, data conclusively shows that this fear was bullshit."
"More than nine in ten nursing students believe that patients should be legally able to access medical cannabis, but few report receivingsufficient training on the subject while in medical school, according to survey data published in the journal Nurse Practitioner."
"Nebraska voters will decide this Election Day on a pair of citizen-initiated ballot measures regulating medical cannabis access to authorized patients.
State regulators last week affirmed that advocates Nebraskans for Medical Marijuana had gathered the requisite number of signatures to place the measures before voters."
"Members of the North Carolina Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians have begun selling cannabis products to patrons ages 21 and older, regardless of whether they are members of federal recognized Indian tribes.
Tribal members initially began selling marijuana products to authorized patients in April. In July, they began engaging in adult-use sales exclusively to other tribal members. On Saturday, they expanded sales to anyone over 21 years of age. That day, an estimated 4,000 customers were on hand to purchase cannabis products."
"Roughly one in five older adults acknowledge having consumed cannabis over the past year, according to survey data provided by the University of Michigan’s National Poll on Healthy Aging and AARP.
Specifically, 21 percent of respondents over the age of 50 said that they consumed cannabis. Over 60 percent of consumers acknowledged using it to relax, help with sleep, or relieve pain. However, fewer than half of them have discussed their use with their health care providers.
The findings represent an uptick from past years, but are consistent with more recent survey data reporting that 20 percent of adults in their fifties and sixties are using cannabis."
"The recordings, first identified by Minnesota NORML co-founder Kurtis Hanna and highlighted by The New York Times on Saturday, archive conversations between Nixon and White House aides on March 6, 1973. Hanna says that the recordings reveal that Nixon was “not a true believer” in the drug war, despite being among its chief architects."
"Likely voters in Arizona and Nevadastrongly support allowing adults to use marijuana and other related reforms, according to polling data compiled by the market research firm The Tarrance Group.
Specifically, supermajorities of voters in both states favored legalizing cannabis, removing it from its Schedule I classification under federal law, and permitting banks and other financial institutions to explicitly partner with state-licensed cannabis businesses.
Polling, previously compiled by the firm, reported similar results in the battleground states of Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin."
"Newly authorized patients who begin using medical cannabis products experience rapid and clinically meaningful improvements in their health-related quality of life, according to data published in the Journal of Cannabis Research.
Investigators affiliated with Philadelphia’s College of Osteopathic Medicine assessed changes in patients’ general health prior to their use of medical cannabis and then three months later. Researchers described their study as “one of the largest longitudinal studies of quality of life in individuals using medical marijuana in the US.”
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