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Article by Jack Austin, Independent Former Arsenal and Crystal Palace forward Ian Wright has admitted he was a regular marijuana smoker during the start of his football career. Wright joined the Gunners in 1991 and became their record goalscorer, scoring 185 goals for the club, before Thierry Henry broke his record. The football pundit also played 33 times for England, ...

Article by Falice Chin, CBC News Imagine if every Canadian adult was allowed to grow marijuana at home. What would this do to our real estate market? The answer depends on who you ask. In Colorado, where pot has been legal since 2014, homeowners can keep up to half a dozen pot plants indoors — and in that’s causing a “green boom” in cities like Denver. ...

Article by Madison Margolin, LA Weekly The Baby Boomers still outcompete every generation in getting high, but could it be that college kids today are catching up? Only slightly. The popular saying, “If you remember the Sixties, you weren’t there,” still rings true, according to the most recent iteration of the 40-year-long Monitoring the Future study from the University of ...

Article by Sharon Begley, Stat News The claim: When legal medical marijuana dispensaries start operating in a state, deaths from opioid overdoses in that state drop. Tell me more: In the United States, 25 states have legalized medical marijuana, including 19 that let patients with a prescription buy pot from dispensaries. Proponents argue that expanding the availability of medical marijuana reduces opioid ...

Article by RT Police in the US have gotten their hands on a marijuana breathalyzer and drivers in California were among the first to be tested –with nationwide distribution planned for next year. As part of an initial field test, several erratic drivers were pulled over and asked to voluntarily blow into the breathalyzer. Two of the drivers who took ...

Article by Glen Schaefer, Vancouver Sun There won’t be wreaths of smoke wafting overhead at this weekend’s Cannabis Expo at the cavernous Vancouver Convention Centre West. It’s all business for more than 130 industry exhibitors, who will welcome an expected 10,000 of the curious on Saturday and Sunday, a month after the federal government introduced new regulations governing medical marijuana use, ...

Article by Max Cherney, Vice After decades of supplying stoners across America with primo weed, outlaw farmers in Northern California are bracing for what now seems almost inevitable: legalization. The Golden State is set to vote on a Sean Parker–backed initiative to tax and regulate weed this fall, an effort that has raised plenty of cash and appears, at least ...

Article by Robert Benzie, The Toronto Star All three major provincial political party leaders agree that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau needs to clear the haze swirling around marijuana legalization. In a rare display of unanimity at Queen’s Park, Liberal Premier Kathleen Wynne, Progressive Conservative Leader Patrick Brown and NDP Leader Andrea Horwath are each urging Ottawa to provide some direction. ...

Article by Tess Allen, Civilized Canadians really want to talk about marijuana legalization – at least if an online survey conducted this summer is any indication. CBC reports that a federal task force surveyed the Canadian public between June 30 and Aug. 29 on a number of topics. While subjects like the Canada Pension Plan netted a meagre 47 responses, ...

Article by Jesse McLean, The Toronto Star The Durham cop allowed by his force to co-own a controversial marijuana company gave thousands of dollars in sponsorship money to a soccer team run by the senior Durham police official whose department vetted the constable’s pot shop ownership application. Chief administrative officer Stan MacLellan oversees Durham police’s human resources unit, which handled ...