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06/20/2017 / By Lance D Johnson

Legalizing cannabis would dramatically improve public health while depriving criminal gangs of a major revenue source, says U.K. political leader

Former Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg thinks that cannabis should be legalized across the United Kingdom. He contends that legalization will bring in $1 billion in annual tax revenue while depriving criminal gangs of a major revenue source. He also believes a standard, regulated product would prevent purchases of high THC skunk strains that are […]

12/15/2016 / By Lance D Johnson

Former Big Pharma executive behind Oxycontin now runs a medical marijuana business

John Stewart was at the helm of Purdue Pharma in 2013. He was in the business of making Oxycontin, a prescription opioid painkiller that has addicted an estimated 1.9 million Americans and led to countless overdose deaths. In fact, between 1999 and 2012, accidental overdoses from prescription painkillers quadrupled. In 2015, a gut-wrenching 55,403 lethal […]

11/30/2016 / By Lance D Johnson

Cannabis and the mythical ‘fair prison sentencing’ debate

The laws against cannabis vary from one region to the next, and differ from the state to the federal level. There is no absolute standard when it comes to the law. All law enforcement officers and judges react to cannabis differently and punish at their own discretion. With cannabis, the law is interpretive and this […]

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