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Congress just gave the Rohrabacher-Blumenauer amendment, which bars the Department of Justice from using federal funds to prosecute people buying or selling medical marijuana in states that have legalized it, a temporary reprieve until Dec. 22. However, as Rep. Earl Blumenauer, (D-Ore.)...

Last year, a pharmaceutical company called Insys Therapeutics gave half a million dollars to the campaign to stop marijuana legalization in Arizona. The Phoenix-based company's flagship product is a prescription opioid spray made from fentanyl, an incredibly addictive and deadly drug estimated...

States that legalized marijuana may be linked to lower opioid deaths but far more studies need to be done to confirm it, said the director of the National Institutes of Health. NIH Director Francis Collins said there has been a "statistical relationship" between states that legalized...

University of New Mexico researchers say the legal availability of medical marijuana has the potential to reduce opioid use among chronic pain patients. The work of associate psychology professor Jacob Miguel Vigil and assistant economics professor Sarah See Stith was recently published in...

He may soon be out as governor of New Jersey, but Chris Christie continues to have an impact on one of his favorite topics: the legalization of marijuana. He's not for it. He made that clear once again this month. As chairman of a committee appointed by President Donald Trump to make...

Medical marijuana advocates are responding to Gov. Eric Holcomb and other weed critics in Indiana by taking their fight to the public. On Friday morning, drivers heading east towards Indianapolis on I-70 may have noticed a new billboard above their heads, promoting marijuana as the solution...

A new study conducted by researchers at The University of New Mexico, involving medical cannabis and prescription opioid use among chronic pain patients, found a distinct connection between having the legal ability to use cannabis and significant reductions in opioid use. The study titled...

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, head of the presidential commission on opioids, warned of supposed dangers of marijuana in a letter to President Donald Trump earlier this month about the panel's findings, saying the current push for the drug's legalization could further fuel the opioid epidemic...

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, head of the presidential commission on opioids, warned of the dangers of marijuana in a letter to President Donald Trump earlier this month about the panel's findings, saying the current push for marijuana legalization could further fuel the opioid epidemic...

Despite the growing body of scientific evidence showing that cannabis access is associated with reductions in opioid abuse and mortality, President Trump's Commission on Combating Drug Addiction and the Opioid Crisis remains mum on the subject. Their silence is unacceptable. It is time for the...

Marijuana legalization in Colorado appears to have led to a drop in opioid overdose deaths in that state, according to new research published in the American Journal of Public Health. "After Colorado's legalization of recreational cannabis sale and use, opioid-related deaths decreased more...

With the Opioid Epidemic taking over America, will Medical Marijuana dispensaries begin to replace pharmacies in providing adequate pain medication? It is seeming like more of a possibility, as scientists are allocating more time and money to study marijuana's effects on pain, dispensaries are...

Our nation's addiction to opioids has been building for 10 years and Illinois' failed medical cannabis policies compound this problem, putting our patients at a dangerous and potentially deadly disadvantage. The Tribune reported on President Donald Trump's declaration labeling the opioid...

Drug overdoses are now the leading cause of death for Americans under 50, killing an estimated 59,000 people last year across the United States. It’s the worst public health crisis in a generation, and the government is scrambling to find a way to get millions of citizens off heroin and...

With each passing day, we are bombarded by headlines confirming that there is an opioid epidemic in America. These addiction problems are proving pervasive in every age group, ethnic background, and socioeconomic strata. In fact, the opioid epidemic is being affirmed as the worst epidemic in...

America's opioid epidemic is responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people. From 2000 to 2015, over half-a-million Americans died of opioid abuse and overdose. Ninety-one Americans die every single day for the same reasons. While illegal drugs like heroin have contributed...

Across the nation, opioid-related deaths and fatalities are decreasing in states that have medical cannabis programs, but the benefits are limited due to a lack of accurately labeled and tested cannabis products. Patient Focused Certification (PFC), a project of Americans for Safe Access...

A handful of drugmakers are taking their first steps toward developing marijuana-based painkillers, alternatives to opioids that have led to widespread abuse and caused the U.S. health regulator to ask for a withdrawal of a popular drug this month. The cannabis plant has been used for decades...

A handful of drugmakers are taking their first steps toward developing marijuana-based painkillers, alternatives to opioids that have led to widespread abuse and caused the U.S. health regulator to ask for a withdrawal of a popular drug this month. The cannabis plant has been used for decades...

Michigan will likely get another shot at legalizing pot next fall. A petition is being circulated to collect signatures right now. Legalization efforts have stuttered for the past several years, made even more frustrating because many other states have made much progress in the same time. But...