Iowa Pharmacy Board Recommends Cannabis Oil Be Schedule II
The Iowa Board of Pharmacy met Monday to discuss a request to re-classify marijuana.
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Eric Holder At Center of Marijuana Debate
Attorney General Eric Holder found himself caught Tuesday in a vast congressional divide over how the federal government should respond to moves states have made to legalize marijuana.
Seven Ways Booze Is More Dangerous Than Pot
No substantial evidence links marijuana to traffic accidents, domestic violence or cancer, yet pot is illegal and listed as a Schedule I controlled substance by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration.
Drug Prohibitions Hurt Science, Researchers Charge
In a paper published Wednesday in the journal Nature Reviews Neuroscience, a group of leading scientists argue that global drug prohibition has not only compounded the harms of drug use, but also produced the worst censorship of research in centuries.
Canada Health Ministry Bans Bath Salts Drug
The Canadian government has banned MDPV (methylenedioxypyrovalerone), a synthetic stimulant commonly found in "bath salts" drugs. The ban went into effect last Wednesday, the same day it was announced by Health Canada.
Why the Federal Government Will Not Reschedule Marijuana
Activists have been working for years to reform state and local marijuana laws throughout the nation through decriminalization, implementation of medical marijuana laws and, most recently, attempts at legalizing marijuana.
Respected Study Finds DEA Should Re-Classify Marijuana
The present classification of cannabis and its organic compounds as schedule I prohibited substances under federal law is scientifically indefensible, according to a just published review in The Open Neurology Journal.
Colorado Becomes Third State to Ask DEA to Reclassify Pot
Change would allow doctors to prescribe marijuana as a medical treatment
Prohibition in Real-Time: the House Votes to Criminalize Dozens of New Chemicals, Putting Politics Before Science
Anecdotal evidence beat out science in debate over the bill, which will ban 40 relatively unknown chemicals found in bath salts and fake pot, and make researching them difficult.
Oregon Board of Pharmacy Adopts Rules to Reclassify Marijuana as a Medicine
Oregon became the latest state and the first in many years to officially reclassify marijuana from its status as a dangerous drug with no medical value.
