Cannabis use is associated with improved outcomes in opioid-dependent subjects undergoing outpatient treatment, according to data published online ahead of print in the journal Drug and Alcohol Dependence. “One of the interesting study findings was the observed beneficial effect of marijuana smoking on treatment retention,” authors concluded. “Participants who smoked marijuana had less difficulty with sleep and anxiety and were more likely to remain in treatment as compared to those who were not using marijuana, regardless of whether they were taking dronabinol or placebo.”
Month: November 2015
Get Educated: The 2015 NORML Key West Legal Seminar
If you are a practicing criminal defense lawyer, or if you are representing newly legal marijuana businesses, this week presents a great opportunity to pick-up some of your mandatory continuing legal education (MCLE) credits, required by most states, at the annual NORML legal seminar held in the fascinating venue of Key West, Florida. The Conch Republic The southern-most city in the continental US, Key West, the county seat of Monroe County, is an island located 129 miles southwest of Miami, FL, and 94 miles north-northwest of Cuba. It is accessible both via US 1, a two-lane highway completed in 1938, and via the Key West International Airport, with regularly scheduled flights to and from the mainland. Key West was the…
About those drug war prison statistics
We’ve talked a lot over the years about the impact that the drug war has had on the over-incarceration in the U.S. And inevitably someone responds by saying that there aren’t all that many in prison (or state prison, or federal prison, or those convicted of possession only, etc.) as if somehow the fact that […]
Give, Get and Grateful
America’s oldest and largest marijuana law reform group turns 45 years old this month, and there is much to be grateful for in the way of substantive, sustained and forward-looking marijuana law reforms in America.
NORML is over-the-moon grateful to a loyal base of cannabis consumers…
NORML’s Weekly Legislative Round Up
While Thanksgiving is cutting the work week short for many, there is no shortage of legislative news in marijuana law reform. Click here to find out what new developments have taken place in the past week related to marijuana!
More from the New York Times Editorial Board
Cut Sentences for Low-Level Drug Crimes by the Editorial Board.
Now that Congress is within sight of passing the most significant federal sentencing reforms in a generation, it’s worth taking a closer look at where the legislation falls short.
The main driver of the federal prison population is, by far, the dramatic increase in the […]
Thanksgiving, Personal Freedom … and Marijuana
Celebrating a day of thanksgiving has a long history in this country, dating back to the first year of George Washington’s first term as president, when he proclaimed Nov. 28, 1789 “as a day of public thanksgiving and prayer to be observed by acknowledging with grateful hearts the many and signal favours of Almighty God.” The tradition continued, although on different dates in different states, until President Abraham Lincoln in 1863, in the middle of the Civil War, proclaimed the final Thursday in November as Thanksgiving nationwide. Of course the Confederate States refused to recognize Lincoln’s authority, and it was not until after the war ended, during reconstruction in the mid-1870s, that all states participated in the national Thanksgiving celebration….
Ethan Nadelmann at the conference
Video of keynote address by Ethan Nadelmann at the International Drug Policy Reform Conference in Washington DC available here.
Early on in his talk, he discussed how we lose track of the lessons from history, and he mentioned about how few young people know about McCarthyism and what we went through in that period and […]
Think of the children!
The war on drugs: Harming, not protecting, young people by Count the Costs.
7 ways the war on drugs hurts children and young people
Sgt. Jim Gerhardt spreads ignorance
Colorado police officers warns of marijunana dangers [sic]
Wow. This guy travelled all the way to Iowa just to give them a combination of outright lies and dramatic misstatements.
A Denver-area police officer cautioned Siouxlanders Friday not to follow down the path of his own state on marijuana. […]
“If you legalize it, then you’re […]