Friday Fact: Weed wrecks your memory
A massive neuroimaging study led by researchers at the University of Colorado found that huge majorities of young adult marijuana users suffer significant cognitive impairment in everyday life.
Why is the Department of Veterans Affairs backing extreme harm reduction?
Drug users need to a path out of addiction, not a lather-rinse-repeat cycle within it.
WATCH: Kevin Sabet at Oxford House
Kevin spoke at the organizations’s 50th anniversary convention about how to win against addiction.
Places that ban marijuana storefronts have 67% less psychotic disorders among teens
Turns out when you keep weed away from kids, you protect their mental health. A team of researchers from USC,
READ: ‘Founding father of legal pot’ Rob Corry SLAMS marijuana rescheduling
Rob Corry fought for wider access to weed in Colorado. Now he’s taking a stand against efforts to further normalize the drug.
China’s deeply involved in US weed markets: new report
Legal and illegal weed markets alike provide major opportunity to our biggest strategic enemy, China, as well as the regime in Beijing.
Friday Fact: Recovery housing = TWICE the chance of staying off drugs
An empathetic community with clear expectations of behavior can literally save your life.
Trulieve’s the big money behind marijuana rescheduling
Trulieve has big, big money riding on the campaign to get the drug into Schedule III.
EXPLAINER: How rescheduling marijuana hands Mexican and Chinese cartels a giant financial incentive
Rescheduling marijuana would make it possible for addiction profiteers to deduct normal business expenses at tax time and power up violent criminal gangs in doing so.
LISTEN: Luke Niforatos on PolicySphere about the ugly politics of rescheduling
SAM’s EVP Luke Niforatos sat down with PolicySphere to talk all things marijuana rescheduling, especially the politics of it.