Without Law Enforcement Backing, Efforts to Legalize Medical Marijuana Face …
Without law enforcement backing, efforts to legalize medical marijuana face …
Filed under: Drug Addiction District of Columbia
Seventeen states and the District of Columbia allow the use of marijuana for medical purposes, and Colorado and Washington recently legalized marijuana possession for adults with small amounts of the drug. Tom Lehman, a lobbyist for the Marijuana …
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Medical marijuana faces tough road in Minnesota
Filed under: Drug Addiction District of Columbia
Seventeen states and the District of Columbia allow the use of marijuana for medical purposes, and Colorado and Washington recently legalized marijuana possession for adults with small amounts of the drug. Tom Lehman, a lobbyist for the Marijuana …
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Amputated hand mastermind gets more than maximum in Columbia federal court
Filed under: Drug Addiction District of Columbia
COLUMBIA, SC U.S. District Judge Cameron McGowan Currie on Friday handed down a sentence of 14 years in federal prison to the mastermind of a scheme to d efraud an insurance company of $ 671,000 by amputating the hand of a mentally disabled Sumter man …
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Goodbye Cannibalism: DC Has Officially Gone Bath Salt Free
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D.C. will be following the federal law enforcement nationwide crackdown that was launched on July 9, 2012: the Synthetic Drug Abuse Prevention Act of 2012. This Act added on mephedrone, mdpv, cannabimimetic agents, and nine synthetic pyschedelics to …
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