The most important legalization issue right now:

The current Republican Party no longer supports Democracy. The choice this election is between one party that supports a Democracy (Democrats) and the other party that supports a Putin-style authoritarian oligarchical regime (Republicans). Those are your choices.

— Ben Meiselas (@meiselasb) September 14, 2020

Cannabis is just old-fashioned herbal medicine and it is the same medicine that our ancestors used freely. We must take back our rights, which will allow us the freedom to grow this plant everywhere again and use it in every possible way. pic.twitter.com/5h15dSXZ88

— Rick Simpson (@Simpson_Rick) May 7, 2020

How Marijuana Criminalization Undermines The Coronavirus Response (Op-Ed)

 https://tinyurl.com/y8j2sxv5

... " There will be many policy lessons that emerge from the COVID-19 pandemic. One should be that we can achieve better health, safety, and economic outcomes if we replace cannabis prohibition with a thoughtfully regulated system of sales to adults and take other steps to reduce the number of low-risk offenders who become entrapped in our criminal justice system." 

     - Steve Hawkins, Marijuana Policy Project executive director

From Charlotte To Science: Why Now Is Prime Time For Biden To Embrace Bernie's Marijuana Legalization Plan
https://www.benzinga.com/markets/cannabis/20/04/15785285/from-charlotte-to-science-why-now-is-prime-time-for-biden-to-embrace-bernies-marijuana-legalizat#/.XpNkecfMQi4.twitter

"If Biden is the nominee, and wants people who feel the way I do to consider voting for him, he needs to make peace with a public, explicit refutation of his prior views and endorse Bernie’s cannabis plan. I don’t think cannabis voters should let him get away w anything less."

   - Steve DeAngelo  https://twitter.com/stevedeangelo/status/1237614989684269056

War On DRUGS or A War On the MIND?

The Opioid Crisis Is About More Than Corporate Greed

By Zachary Siegel

“This wasn’t just incompetence on the part of the DEA and the Department of Justice, it was knowing and intentional failure to do what most people think is their jobs.”

 

Study Finds Marijuana Augments Analgesic Efficacy Of Opiates

 The Marijuana Herald

According to a new study published by the journal Neuropsychopharmacology, the co-administration of marijuana and sub-therapeutic doses of oxycodone produces enhanced analgesic effects in human subjects

 

Blaming Prescription Pain Pills For The Opioid Epidemic Is Fake News
 By Peter Pischke

How negligent media have helped inflate a deadly moral panic over prescription opioids and ignored the real sources of addiction, while hurting people who live with devastating chronic pain.

FDA To Take Steps Toward Allowing CBD Products Following Hemp Legalization

By Kyle Jaeger

"Just after President Donald Trump signed the 2018 Farm Bill into law on Thursday, legalizing industrial hemp, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) published a lengthy press release responding to the legislative development—including a pledge to pursue pathways that would allow businesses to legally market products containing cannabis or cannabis-derived compounds." ...

 

Hemp is legal in the United States 

by Pete Guither

The Endocannabinoid System: Here’s How it Keeps You Healthy and Happy

by Marco

FDA Says Marijuana Ingredient CBD Doesn’t Meet Criteria For Federal Control

By Kyle Jaeger

... "Although the federal health regulatory agency’s review concluded that CBD shouldn’t be scheduled in any manner, the drug enforcement agency—citing international treaty obligations—opted to put Epidiolex in Schedule V and otherwise continue to classify CBD itself under the most restrictive category of Schedule I." ...

Marijuana extract can help curb psychosis, study says

Allen Cone at UPI

How the opioid crackdown is backfiring

By BRIANNA EHLEY at Politico

"Hundreds of chronic pain patients responding to a POLITICO survey describe being refused opioid prescriptions they had relied on for years with sometimes devastating consequences."

Why we should abolish ICE — and the DEA too

By Kathleen Frydl at VOX 

"The failed drug war and Trump’s war on immigrants share many features. To change course, we need to change institutions."

The War on Drugs Is Inseparable from US Imperialism

At VICE

 

"Much of the world used to treat drug addiction as a health issue, not a criminal one. And then America got its way."

Workplace Deaths Drop After States Legalize Medical Marijuana

By Kyle Jaeger at Marijuana Moment

Chemo And CBD Combo Can Be Magic Bullet For Pancreatic Cancer

By: Nicole Skrobin at Fresh Toast 

 
"Out of all types of cancers that exist, which type do you think is one of the hardest to beat? On a worldwide scale, pancreatic cancer is one of the deadliest forms of cancer in regards to overall survival rates. According to the American Cancer Society, amongst the combination of all stages of pancreatic cancer, the survival rate for one-year is 20 percent, and the survival rate for five years is under seven percent. Although certain cancer treatments are commonly used such as chemotherapy and radiation, in a recent study, it has been found that the combination of chemotherapy and Cannabidiol (CBD) treatments have led to significant pancreatic cancer survival rates. Read on to learn more about this unique cancer treatment and the likelihood of it being used by humans in the future."