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Tech Nonprofit Uses Automation To Get 66,000 Old Marijuana Convictions Dismissed In Los Angeles
It’s been nearly four years since California voted to legalise marijuana and offer a clean slate for at least tens of thousands of racially-targeted residents with past convictions for victimless crimes. California is now high on a legal supply, which is fun, but the state hasn’t delivered so much when it comes to cleaning up…
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For The First Time Ever, Marijuana Legalisation Bill Clears U.S. Congressional Committee
A bill to remove marijuana from U.S. federal controlled substances lists, expunge federal convictions and arrests, and allocate resources to communities that have suffered under the U.S. government’s war on drugs passed 24-10 in the House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday, ABC News reported.
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People Inhaled Cannabis To Get High At Funerals 2,500 Years Ago, New Evidence Suggests
Humans have been smoking, eating, and wearing cannabis for millennia, and a new study out Wednesday presents some pretty strong evidence of people using it explicitly to get high back in the first century BCE in Central Asia. The paper suggests that the plant could have been cultivated to be more mind-altering and used for…
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Scientists Had Volunteers Get High To See How CBD And THC Affect The Brain Differently
Cannabidiol — the ingredient of cannabis that doesn’t make you high, commonly called CBD — might be the angel to THC’s devil, a new study of people’s brains suggests. The research found that 17 people who smoked cannabis with mostly THC had worse brain function in certain regions than those who smoked cannabis with roughly…