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Article by David Brown, Lift A report from this past July shows a continued decline in cannabis-related arrests in Canada over the past four years, while arrests for drugs like methamphetamines, heroin, and ecstasy increased. While cannabis-related arrests continue to make up the bulk of drug arrests in Canada, they also are more likely to be stayed or withdrawn or ...

Article by Christopher Ingraham, The Washington Post via The Cannabist States that passed medical marijuana laws saw a significant boost to older Americans’ workforce participation, according to a new working paper from researchers at Johns Hopkins and Temple University. States with medical marijuana laws also saw improvements in overall health for older men, although the health effects for older women ...

Article by Reuters via The Guardian A college in the Canadian province of New Brunswick plans to institute a program on marijuana cultivation so that students can be trained to work at local companies that produce the drug. The French-language College Communautaire du Nouveau-Brunswick will launch the course next year, said Michel Doucet, executive director of continuing education and customized ...

Article by Crissy Van Meter, The Kind While we are a nation of divorce, elective singledom, or lifelong partnerships without the tax break or a diamond ring, plenty of people are still marching down the aisle to declare their eternal love. And there are a few benefits to the legal piece of paper, like a tax break (although not that ...

Article by Jim Bronskill, The Globe and Mail MPs are calling for new research centre devoted to the mental health of first responders and other public safety officers grappling with the often disturbing toll of their jobs. Estimates indicate that between 10 and 35 per cent of first responders — from paramedics to prison guards — will develop post-traumatic stress ...

Article by Jenni Dunning, Barrie Advance via Simcoe.com Sunrise Medicinal has reopened its doors less than a month after Barrie police raided it and another marijuana dispensary, charging five men with drug offences. An employee answering the phone at Sunrise said the downtown store is not selling marijuana, just providing information about medical cannabis, and he directed this reporter to ...

Article by Duke London, Marijuana.com On Sunday, it was announced that a German citizen will be allowed to grow his own cannabis for the first time in the country’s history. The 53-year old German suffers from multiple sclerosis and endures symptoms such as spastic paralysis, speech disorders, and depression. The Mannheim resident was already one of 900 Germans to be ...

Article by Rory Carrol, Reuters Hezekiah Allen is a third-generation marijuana farmer in this Northern California county, where the cool coastal fog pours off the Pacific Ocean, coaxing pot plants to heights of 20 feet. The executive director of the California Growers Association trade group, Allen has long sought an end to what he calls “prohibition” and has looked forward ...

Article by Brent Constantin, Cannabis Life Network Peterborough police have issued a warrant for the arrest of Richard Standen, the owner of local dispensary Cannabis Culture. “On September 29, 2016 the Peterborough Police Service’s Drug Unit executed a Controlled Drugs and Substances Act (CDSA) search warrant at a Peterborough hotel where the accused was renting a room,” police said, in a ...

Article by Kristin Romey, National Geographic Archaeologists are hailing the discovery of an “extraordinary cache” of cannabis found in an ancient burial in northwest China, saying that the unique find adds considerably to our understanding of how ancient Eurasian cultures used the plant for ritual and medicinal purposes. In a report in the journal Economic Botany, archaeologist Hongen Jiang and ...