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Employers grapple with possibility of legal medical marijuana 09/12/2014	Business, Employer, drug free workplace
Study: Teens who smoke weed daily are 60% less likely to complete high school than those who never use 09/12/2014 Teenagers who smoke marijuana daily are over 60 percent less likely to complete high school than those who never use. They're also 60 percent less likely to graduate college and seven times more likely to attempt suicide.	youth, dropout, high school, addiction, suicide
International Drive Chamber Resolution 09/12/2014	Resolution, amendment, vote no
John Morgan- Two Faces 09/12/2014	Morgan
Teens who Smoke Cannabis Daily 'Seven Times More Likely to Commit Suicide' 09/12/2014 Teenagers who start smoking cannabis daily before the age of 17 are seven times more likely to commit suicide, a study has found.	youth, suicide
Marijuana Infused Frozen Pizza Is Every Lazy Stoner’s Dream Come True 09/12/2014	edibles, pizza, infused
Ex-Florida Supreme Court justices against amendment for medical marijuana 09/09/2014	judges, supreme court, vote no, amendment
Former justices: Why voters should reject medical marijuana amendment 09/07/2014	amendment, vote no, judges, legalization
Workers' Comp Must Cover Medical Marijuana 09/05/2014	Business, workman's comp, insurance, Medical
Workers' Comp Must Cover Medical Marijuana 09/05/2014 Is this what Floridians want?	Business, workplace, drug testing, insurance
Bishop Robert Lynch- Going to Pot ! Really? 09/04/2014	amendment, Bishop Lynch, religious leader, church
Lawyers, not doctors, push medical pot: My Word 09/04/2014	Doctors, amendment
MGH findings on pot addiction complicate legalization debate 09/03/2014	Studies, addiction, legalization
John Morgan Unplugged 09/01/2014 'Yes on 2' Campaign Chairman, John Morgan, Unplugged and Uncensored with subtitles John Morgan "Unplugged" after a debate in Polk County.	Morgan, video
D.A.R.E. America Position Paper on Marijuana Legalization 09/01/2014	Resolution, position paper, legalization, DARE
Pandora’s ganja box 08/21/2014	OpEd, Death
Bob Gualtieri, Drug Free America worry about broad medical marijuana language 08/21/2014	Doctors, amendment
Marijuana and the Workplace 08/18/2014 The Marijuana Report	workplace, Business, Employer
2nd lawsuit claims unfair San Diego pot laws will cause undue pollution 08/15/2014	Business, Environment, zoning
Greed merchants growing like weeds around Amendment 2 08/15/2014 Unfortunately, like its role model in tobacco, smoked marijuana continues to increase mortality rates, whether the deaths are from vehicular crashes, suicide or respiratory disease, according to the Journal.
Bill Bennett: This notion that marijuana isn't that harmful is just plain wrong 08/14/2014	harm, Colorado-0, youth
FORMER GOVERNOR JEB BUSH JOINS COALITION AGAINST AMENDMENT 2 08/14/2014	Bush, amendment, vote no
August 2014- Legalization of MJ Impact Colorado 08/13/2014	Colorado-0, youth, car crashes 2, Death, exposure, alcohol
Trial lawyers or physicians 08/11/2014	Calvina, lawyer
Pot studies suggest regular use is bad for teen brains 08/09/2014	Teens, Brain, Studies
Inside Colorado’s flourishing, segregated black market for pot 08/08/2014	Colorado-0, Black Market
Rubio comes out in limited support of medical marijuana 08/08/2014	vote no, rubio
Medical Marijuana User Sues Company That Fired Her 08/08/2014	Business, Employer
Marijuana’s Buzzkill DNA: Biotech Researcher Finds Medical Pot Laced With Feces 08/08/2014	feces, Medical
Traffic Fatalities of Marijuana-Positive Drivers On Rise In Colorado 08/08/2014	Colorado-0, traffic, Fatalities
Colorado lawsuit alleges cannabis overdose from fairground candy 08/08/2014	Colorado-0, candy, Death, overdose
Florida police chiefs urge Floridians to vote against medical marijuana legalization 08/06/2014	vote no, safety, Police
Pueblo West marijuana dispensary robbed 08/06/2014	Colorado, crime
Marijuana Linked to the Death of Two Young Men in Germany 08/06/2014	Death, heart
Where Americans smoke marijuana the most 08/05/2014	youth, usage, map
Doctors' lobby officially opposes marijuana amendment 08/05/2014	Doctors, vote no
UF to say no to pot, even if marijuana amendment passes 08/05/2014	UF, vote no, university
A Kansas foster father was high on marijuana when he left a 10-month-old girl in a hot car, where she died, prosecutors said Fri 08/04/2014	Death, baby
Medical marijuana a no-go for Mass. college students living on campus 08/04/2014	college, vote no
5 things you won’t see in Florida’s medical marijuana regulations 08/04/2014 The things you won't see in the law are: Suggestions on addressing the local zoning regulations. “We can’t fix local zoning, so that has to be negotiated at the local level,” Tschetter said. Suggestions that pharmacists should be a part of the bill. Certain recommendations on business practices, such as requiring that the business can’t be sold for two years, that they have in-state partners, that they have certain kinds of insurance. Those ideas aren't in the law itself, drive up cost and could delay implementation,Tschetter said. What medical conditions should qualify for the use of medical marijuana. That’s defined in the law. The legal status of the source material. “Once it's here it’s legal,” Tschetter said.	amendment
Birth outcomes associated with cannabis use before and during pregnancy. 08/01/2014	Pregnancy, Research
2014- Colorado Impact Study- Driving Impaired Section 08/01/2014 Overall, traffic fatalities in Colorado decreased 14.8 percent, from 2007 to 2012. During the same five years in Colorado, traffic fatalities involving operators testing positive for marijuana increased 100 percent. In 2007, Colorado traffic fatalities involving operators testing positive for marijuana represented 7.04 percent of the total traffic fatalities. By 2012, that number more than doubled to 16.53 percent.	car crashes 2, impaired, Colorado-0
Medical marijuana laws in 50 states: investigating the relationship between state legalization of medical marijuana and marijuan 08/01/2014	Research
I-Team: Driver in fatal hit-and-run smoked marijuana 07/30/2014	Fatalities, car crashes
Marijuana Legalization Would Be 'a Health Catastrophe' 07/30/2014	amendment
Pot Legalization vs. Science 07/30/2014	legalization, Research
The Devastation That’s Really Happening in Colorado 07/30/2014	Colorado-0
Denver Crime Rate up almost 7% 07/30/2014	Colorado, crime
Medicine by public opinion: Where are the doctors? 07/30/2014	Medical, Doctors
CADCA Responds to New York Times Editorial Board's Call for Marijuana Legalization 07/30/2014	legalization, CADCA
Welfare Cash for Weed in Colorado 07/30/2014	Colorado-0, food stamps
At Colorado’s borders, a dividing line over marijuana 07/30/2014 We have to pay overtime, pay the prosecutor, pay to incarcerate them, pay for their defense if they’re indigent. Colorado’s taxing it, but everybody else is paying the price.”	Colorado-0, Business
Marijuana and Mental Illness 07/30/2014 Marijuana is the most commonly used illegal drug in America: approximately one in 10 adult Americans report having used marijuana in the past year. In recent years, laws addressing the use and possession of marijuana have been changing, and many states—including Colorado, California, Massachusetts and others—have passed regulations either legalizing marijuana for medical purposes or decriminalizing the non-medical use of marijuana. While different groups of professionals have had varied responses to the implications of this new legislation, mental health professionals have been largely united in expressing their concerns of the negative impact marijuana has for people with mental illness. Furthermore, the scientific data is clear that regular marijuana abuse is linked with increased risk of legal troubles and jail time, difficulties at school and at work, as well as abuse of alcohol and other drugs.	mental health
Florida Medical Marijuana Dangerous? Calvina Fay Claims Legal Weed Amendment Is Really Recreational Marijuana 07/30/2014	youth, amendment
Legal pot blamed for some of influx of homeless in Denver this summer 07/30/2014	addiction, Colorado-0
Opponents continue to slam Amendment 2, allowing medical pot 07/30/2014	amendment
Bad Science: The Marijuana Experiment Has Failed 07/30/2014	Colorado-0
Deputies: Adults smoking pot while pit bulls kill 4-year-old boy 07/30/2014	Death, neglect
New York Times Calls for Legalization of Marijuana, ASAM Strongly Objects 07/28/2014 Stuart Gitlow, MD, president of ASAM and a board-certified addiction medicine specialist, called the paper’s stance “irresponsible” and “ignorant of the facts” that clearly place marijuana on the continuum of psychoactive drugs that trigger addiction and lifelong chronic brain disease.	Doctors, Medical, vote no, addiction
Patrick Kennedy: Legalizing pot endangers children 07/28/2014	youth, Brain
Amendment 2 is backdoor to legalize pot 07/28/2014	amendment, Florida
Comparing Alcohol and Marijuana: Seriously 07/27/2014	alcohol, Research, youth
Institute for a Drug-Free Workplace 07/26/2014 The impact of employee marijuana use is seen in the workplace in lower productivity, increased workplace accidents and injuries, increased absenteeism, and lower morale. This can and does seriously impact the bottom line.	drug free workplace, workplace, Employees, Business
Denver Crime Rate Up Almost 7 percent 07/23/2014 Other information: http://drthurstone.com/the-big-deal/neuroimages/	crime, denver, Colorado
GW Pharmaceuticals Closes U.S. Public Offering; Cannabis-Based Medicines Progress 07/19/2014	Charlotte's Web, gw pharm, epilepsy
Co-occurring Disorders 07/16/2014 The coexistence of both a mental health and a substance use disorder is referred to as co-occurring disorders.	mental health, Co-occuring, substance abuse, SAMHSA
Voters in two states to consider legalizing recreational pot in 2014 07/16/2014	youth, addiction
Down the Rabbit Hole 07/16/2014	harm, Myth
Florida 'medical marijuana' measure would legalize recreational pot smoking 07/14/2014	legalization, recreational
Devestation- What is really happening in Colorado 07/10/2014	Colorado-0
NIDA review summarizes research on marijuana’s negative health effects 07/07/2014	addiction, youth, Effects
The Marijuana Report 07/07/2014	Research, national, Studies, article
Legalise cannabis – and children will pay the price 07/07/2014 The emerging marijuana industry in Colorado is trying to appeal to teenagers by offering cannabis-infused soda, chocolate taffy and jujubes.	youth, mafia, Potency, Colorado, edibles
Medical Marijuana as a new herbalism (Part 1) 07/07/2014	Gorbski, Studies, Research
Trends in fatal motor vehicle crashes before and after marijuana commercialization in Colorado 07/07/2014	Colorado-0, car crashes, Fatalities
Child Proof Pot 07/05/2014 One such statistic is a spike in calls to poison control centers. According to the National Poison Data System, calls about accidental ingestion of marijuana in children 9 and younger more than tripled in states that decriminalized marijuana before 2005. In states that enacted legalization from 2005 to 2011, calls increased nearly 11.5 percent per year. Over the same period in states without decriminalization laws, the call rate stayed the same.	youth, Children, poisoning, emergency room
Clearing the air around marijuana use 07/02/2014	addiction, faith-based, Side-Effects
Marijuana- 2014 Dr. Madras Presentation 07/01/2014	madras, opioid, Pregnancy, youth, powerpoint, Brain
This July 4th party has “lots of free bud” and a marijuana-filled piñata 06/29/2014 “I can share my personal weed with somebody, no problem,” said Taijeron. “But we can’t sell it or exchange money for marijuana.”	Business, addiction
Six Ways Science Says Marijuana May Hurt Your Health 06/29/2014	addiction, heart, car crashes 2, Impairment, Death, Brain
Amendment is not needed for medical marijuana 06/27/2014	amendment, Charlotte's Web
Marijuana Legalization Undermines Obama Administration’s Health Goals 06/26/2014 In reality, less than one out of every 200 inmates in a state prison system is incarcerated due to first-time marijuana use or possession. And many of those who are incarcerated have pled down from more serious charges. The fact is most inmates are incarcerated for multiple, non-marijuana drug offenses, often involving trafficking or violence.
Two 24-Week Phase 3 Studies of Lumacaftor in Combination with Ivacaftor Met Primary Endpoint with Statistically Significant Impr 06/24/2014	Cystic Fibrosis, FDA, Research
tudy finds genetic links between schizophrenia and cannabis use 06/24/2014	Schizophrenia
Don't be Doped, Smoking Pot is NOT medicine. 06/23/2014	risks, youth
Pope Francis Condemns Legalization of Marijuana 06/20/2014 Francis told members of a drug-enforcement conference meeting in Rome on Friday that even limited attempts to legalize recreational drugs “are not only highly questionable from a legislative standpoint, but they fail to produce the desired effects.” Unless of course the desired effect is to get High.	legalization, Pope, church, amendment, religious leader
New pot delivery phone app as easy as ordering a pizza 06/20/2014	Washington
Dumb and dumber? Teen marijuana use linked to lower IQ in later life 06/20/2014	youth, IQ
Charlotte’s Web law far different from Amendment 2 06/19/2014	Charlotte's Web, Potency
NIDA review summarizes research on marijuana’s negative health effects 06/19/2014 The scientists focus on marijuana’s harmful effects on teens, an age group in which the brain rapidly develops, which is one factor that could help explain increased risks from marijuana use in this population. Research suggests that marijuana impairs critical thinking and memory functions during use and that these deficits persist for days after using.	youth, NIDA
NIDA review summarizes research on marijuana’s negative health effects 06/19/2014 The reviewers consider areas in which little research has been conducted. This includes possible health consequences of secondhand marijuana smoke; the long-term impact of prenatal marijuana exposure; the therapeutic potential of the individual chemicals found in the marijuana plant; and effects of marijuana legalization policies on public health.	Research, Studies, addiction, second hand smoke, chemicals
Medical marijuana in Oregon: State program prone to exploitation, abuse, report says 06/17/2014 “Liquid THC production - - and incidence of butane hash oil lab explosions -- is expected to rise as the market expands for marijuana edibles and demand increases for product that has a strong psychoactive effect,” the report notes.	Oregon, abuse, Black Market, THC
http://www.statesmanjournal.com/story/news/2014/06/16/state-report/10643165/ 06/17/2014 Oregonians legalized medical marijuana in 1998. The program was sold to voters as a modest one with plans to add about 500 patients per year. But today's Oregon Medical Marijuana Program has more than 60,000 patients who carry permission to own double the number of plants and more than five times the amount of smokeable product than was originally envisioned.	Oregon, Medical, patients
OREGON HIDTA PROGRAM 06/14/2014	Oregon, HIDTA
Medical marijuana laws in 50 states: investigating the relationship between state legalization of medical marijuana and marijuan 06/13/2014 States that legalized medical marijuana had higher rates of marijuana use. Future research needs to examine whether the association is causal, or is due to an underlying common cause, such as community norms supportive of the legalization of medical marijuana and of marijuana use.	legalization, youth, Studies, Research
Drug-free workplace and medical marijuana 06/13/2014 THERE IS NO DIFFERENCE BETWEEN SMOKED POT AND WHAT THEY (PRO-POT ADVOCATES) CALL "MEDICAL" MARIJUANA. High at work .. Last month, a state judge directed an employer and insurer to reimburse an injured worker for medical marijuana prescribed to relieve pain resulting from a lower back injury.	drug free workplace, workplace, insurance, legalization
Republicans jump into Florida campaign against medical marijuana 06/13/2014 Finally someone is more concerned about the health & safety of our communities than being politically correct. THIS TAKES COURAGE.	legalization, safety, health, political
Republicans jump into Florida campaign against medical marijuana 06/11/2014	amendment
Editorial: Not your father’s marijuana 06/11/2014 The paper points out that the potency of marijuana has increased fourfold since the 1980s and can hardly be compared to the less harmful drug millions of pot smokers used decades ago. And opponents point to Colorado and Washington, where the passage of medical marijuana in 2000 and 1998, respectively, were followed by the passage of recreational marijuana laws in 2012.	Potency, recreational
Pot for Pups 06/08/2014 Kramer said he receives anecdotal stories from people who claim to have treated their pets with medical marijuana. “There is nothing that says it’s illegal and there’s no statute saying it’s legalized,” Kramer said.	pets

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