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According to this Instagram page this our organization promoting the different kind of strains of weed but also protesting it to become legal.

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My name is Bryan Cruz i am the leader of the Nation Organization for Marijuana( NOFM). I am here to stand for the rights of every cannabis smoking in California. I want to change the rules of people growing and smoking marijuana.

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This youtube video from a famous youtuber states that weed should be legal.

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WHY WEED SHOULD BE LEGAL ft Barack Obama

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DOWNLOAD THE SONG HERE http://itunes.apple.com/album/id1126523275?ls=1&app=itunes For more Information go to Drug Policy Alliance http://www.drugpolicy.org/ Join My Motivational List and get Exclusive Videos, Discounts and Updates http://eepurl.com/bbVo6D Prince EA http://www.facebook.com/princeea http://www.twitter.com/PrinceEa // @PrinceEa http://www.princeea.com http://princeea.tumblr.com Reggie Brown as Obama https://www.youtube.com/user/IamReggieBrown www.ReggieBrownObamaImpersonator.com Special Thanks to the Draw Shop for the illustrations and Sabine Allaeys (http://www.quidos.net) for creative contributions Special Thanks to everyone who supported our Kickstarter.

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This song illustrates how a bad of weed is way better than all of the other stuff out there killing people daily.

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I don't support the legalization of drugs and marijuana but I found the song really good all copyrights belong to Seth macfarlane the original creator of family guy

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By examining this political cartoon you can see that many of the legal products are way more dangerous then marijuana.

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This article addresses the process they plan on going to get marijuana legalized.

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This article declares that people who want to join the military that has smoked marijuana are capable to join the armed forces. That attracts more people to the military because weed is starting to be more accepted everywhere.

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Smoked pot? Want to go to war?

No problem.

As more states lessen or eliminate marijuana penalties, the Army is granting hundreds of waivers to enlist people who used the drug in their youth - as long as they realize they can't do so again in the military.

The number of waivers granted by the active-duty Army for marijuana use jumped to more than 500 this year from 191 in 2016. Three years ago, no such waivers were granted. The big increase is just one way officials are dealing with orders to expand the Army's size.

"Provided they understand that they cannot do that when they serve in the military, I will waive that all day long," said Maj. Gen. Jeff Snow, head of the Army's recruiting command.

The marijuana use exclusions represent about one-quarter of the total misconduct waivers the Army granted in the budget year that ended Sept. 30. They accounted for much of the 50 percent increase overall in recruits who needed a waiver for some type of misconduct.

Snow said the figures probably will rise further as more states legalize or decriminalize marijuana.

Eight states - Alaska, California, Colorado, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Oregon and Washington - and the District of Columbia have fully legalized possession of small amounts of marijuana for adults' recreational use. An additional 13 states have decriminalized it, meaning possession of small amounts is considered the equivalent of a traffic citation or a low-end misdemeanor with no chance of jail. Twenty-nine states, along with Puerto Rico, Guam and Washington, D.C., allow the use of medical marijuana.

Army leaders have faced increased scrutiny in recent weeks amid worries in Congress and elsewhere about a decline in quality among new enlistees.

Army data show more than 8,000 recruits received waivers in 2017, compared with about 6,700 last year. Most waivers concerned physical or mental health.

Almost 2 percent of the recruits were considered "category four," meaning they scored 31 or less, out of 99, on the aptitude test. Just over a half-percent were in that category in 2016.

In total, the Army enlisted almost 69,000 recruits this year, close to 6,000 more than last year.

In an interview with The Associated Press, Snow said he went to his Army leadership early this year to ask if he could bring in more of the category four recruits to meet higher enlistment goals. He said he promised that the Army would stay well below a 4 percent limit on the group allowed by the Pentagon.

Recruits who score lower than 31 on the test must meet specific criteria for the job they are requesting. There is no leeway on previous pot smoking for them. They also can't require a health or conduct waiver.

The Army's top officer, Gen. Mark Milley, told reporters during a recent briefing that the service is not reducing standards.

The increases in the category four enlistees, however, are fueling concerns the Army could repeat mistakes made during the peak of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars more than a decade ago, when it hurriedly added soldiers to the ranks to meet deployment needs. At the time, the Army brought more recruits in with criminal records and misconduct waivers. As the years passed, discipline problems and other behavioral issues increased as well.

Milley and Snow insist that won't happen again.

"Quality matters more than quantity. If you make the numbers, great, awesome. But do not break the standards," Milley said. "Standards have to be upheld, period. So if we come in at less than the ideal number, but we've maintained the standards, that's success."

The Army's argument, however, can be a bit misleading. The military services routinely enlist fewer recruits with waivers or lower scores than allowed under Defense Department guidelines. So while the Army increased the number of former drug users or recruits with lower scores than in previous years, the service still stayed below the maximum levels authorized by the Pentagon. And those recruits must get through boot camp, thus meeting minimum standards for joining the military.

Officials can thus argue they haven't lowered the standards even if they have arguably enlisted more candidates of lower quality.

Snow acknowledged the challenge in meeting the growing enlistment goals. In the current fiscal year, the Army must recruit 80,000 new men and women.

"This mission is going to be a significant challenge for the command," said Snow, who wants fewer than 2 percent of the new recruits to be category four. "The possibility does exist that the numbers of marijuana waivers and category fours could increase. I hope not, but it's too early to tell right now."

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Army now forgiving of past marijuana use to attract recruits

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Smoked pot? Want to go to war? No problem. As more states lessen or eliminate marijuana penalties, the Army is granting hundreds of waivers to enlist people who used the drug in their youth - as long as they realize they can't do so again in the military.

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This article states that new studies show that marijuana can help with chronic pain, bipolar, and PTSD. According to this the effects are different for everyone. It varies so much that they could no come to conclusion on exactly what it does to some people.

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But when it comes to using marijuana to treat chronic pain or post-traumatic stress disorder, two related reviews published Monday in the journal Annals of Internal Medicine find little scientific evidence to support either its effectiveness or its safety.

Up to 80% of people who request medical marijuana want to ease pain, while more than a third cite PTSD as their primary reason, the US Department of Veterans Affairs researchers wrote, citing a separate recent small study.

As a result, physicians increasingly need to talk with patients about the potential benefits and harms of cannabis use, the authors note. Where can doctors turn for evidence-based material?

More harm than good?

The researchers found 27 studies that examined the use of cannabis products for chronic pain in adults. But they discovered insufficient evidence to draw conclusions about whether medical marijuana was helpful to pain sufferers, with one exception: neuropathic or nerve pain. Even there, the team found only weak evidence that cannabis alleviates chronic neuropathic pain.

By contrast, they discovered sufficient evidence to conclude that cannabis use among the general population probably increased the risk of car accidents, psychotic symptoms and short-term cognitive impairment.

Next, the team reviewed data from two reviews and three studies assessing plant-based cannabis preparations used to treat PTSD among adults. Here, the authors found the available scientific studies to be flawed due to either small numbers of participants or a failure to include non-cannabis-using control groups.

Once again, the researchers decided the evidence was insufficient and not rigorous enough to draw firm conclusions about the effectiveness of cannabis in this patient population.

Worse still, one study of veterans with PTSD showed a small but "significant" worsening of symptoms among veterans who either started or continued using cannabis during the study period, the team said.

"We found low- to moderate-strength evidence that cannabis use is associated with an increased risk for psychotic symptoms, psychosis, mania, and -- in active users -- short-term cognitive dysfunction," the authors noted.

Schedule I substance

Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN's chief medical correspondent, said "it is still too early to really understand how effective cannabis may be for chronic pain or PTSD or to fully understand the ways in which cannabis could provide relief."

Additional research would take time, said Gupta, who was not involved in the new study but has reported on medical marijuana extensively in three CNN documentaries entitled "Weed." " Weed 3," which first aired in 2015, gave viewers a front row seat to the first federally approved clinical study on the use of marijuana for PTSD.

With respect to the new research, Gupta said that scientists would need to first address safety issues and reliable, consistent dosing strategies.

Cannabis remains a Schedule I substance, the Drug Enforcement Administration classification for drugs believed to have a high potential for abuse along with some potential to create severe dependence. With federal restrictions placed on marijuana, scientists must overcome various legal and procedural hurdles to research it. Gupta noted, "that makes these important studies harder to conduct."

Dr. Dermot P. Maher, an assistant professor in the Johns Hopkins Department of Anesthesiology, noted that the authors searched several sources to identify "under-reported results," which helped create a "more complete picture" of medical marijuana's possible treatment utility.

"The potential benefits and harms of medical marijuana should be evaluated and compared against other available treatments, such as physical therapy, spine interventions, pain medications and surgery," Maher, who did not contribute to the review, wrote in an email. He added that the economic and societal "costs" of chronic pain emphasize "the need to examine all available tools."

In an editorial accompanying the research, Dr. Sachin Patel of Vanderbilt Psychiatric Hospital noted that the findings are not unique. With very little quality evidence available, the efficacy of cannabis -- and cannabinoid products -- for treating pain and PTSD remains unknown.

One possible reason why some people find cannabis helpful in easing pain -- despite scientific evidence suggesting otherwise -- could be that the effects of cannabis depend on potency and dose, Patel wrote in an email. Meanwhile, most studies use lower doses and lower potencies of medical marijuana than what is found in dispensaries.

"Pain is a multifaceted symptom, which includes sensory, cognitive, and emotional components," he wrote. "Perhaps cannabis decreases the clinical effect of chronic pain" in ways unrecorded by pain rating scales. If scientists looked at emotional symptoms, such as anxiety, quality of life and sleep, instead of traditional symptoms, that "may begin to tell us which specific areas of 'pain' are most likely going to be helped by cannabis, if any."

An everyday issue at the VA

Jane Metrik, an associate professor at Brown University School of Public Health, calls the new research both "timely" and "very well-done." Though she did not contribute to the review, Metrik works as a clinical psychologist at the Providence VA Medical Center and routinely treats veterans with PTSD who use cannabis.

"It's a growing issue that VA providers are grappling with every day," she wrote in an email. Cannabis users often report a "short-term alleviation of PTSD symptoms": Sleep is easier, for example, and tension relieved.

Often, though, they become dependent on the drug, increasing both quantity and frequency, possibly leading to cannabis use disorder, which includes 11 behavioral symptoms outlined in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders-5.

PTSD combined with cannabis use disorder "is frequently associated with greater symptom severity, worse treatment outcomes, and increased use of health services," Metrik wrote. "In light of insufficient evidence on the benefits of cannabis use in patients with PTSD, it is particularly important to increase access to evidence-based trauma-focused treatments for PTSD."

In particular, the VA has highlighted prolonged exposure and cognitive processing therapies, while Metrik recommends cognitive behavioral treatment for insomnia for veterans with problems sleeping.

"Veterans expect cannabis to provide relief from symptoms of combat-related trauma and perceive cannabis to be a low-risk or safe substance unlike other drugs," Metrik wrote. But "the science behind the legislative action of legalizing medical cannabis as treatment for individuals with PTSD is lacking."

She said controlled studies on its effectiveness and safety are needed to substantiate self-reported positive claims and "to test whether benefits of using plant-based cannabis outweigh the risks."

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Marijuana for pain, PTSD: Studies find evidence lacking

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But when it comes to using marijuana to treat chronic pain or post-traumatic stress disorder, two related reviews published Monday in the journal Annals of Internal Medicine find little scientific evidence to support either its effectiveness or its safety.

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This article claims that San Francisco one of the capitals that they have the 420 festival. They decide to open up weed dispensaries because it is becoming legal and they could make tons of money off it plus i can assure you taxes is going to take a big income on it. but this is a way better way, because people will not get locked up for sell or consuming marijuana.

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SAN FRANCISCO - Following weeks of emotional and detailed debate over where to allow new stores, San Francisco supervisors approved regulations for the sale of recreational marijuana when it becomes legal in California in January.

The San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday for a 600-foot (180-meter) buffer zone between stores and schools, although vocal members of the city's Chinese immigrant community had lobbied for a much larger barrier.

The board also rejected provisions that would have allowed neighborhoods to limit the number of pot shops or ban them outright. Pot advocates considered those provisions unfriendly.

Cannabis supporters cheered when supervisors finally voted late Tuesday. They had rallied earlier in the day to encourage supervisors to hurry up and establish rules so businesses could start preparing.

Supervisor Ahsha Safai was the only person to vote against the broad set of regulations, saying that the board had not had enough time to hash out sensitive issues, such as neighborhood input and local zoning.

"This is the issue that divides the board," he said, "this is the issue that divides this city."

Recreational sales become legal in California on Jan. 1, although cities and counties are still struggling to devise regulations for local permits that growers or retailers need for state permits.

San Diego and Palm Springs are among the cities ready for legal sales. Los Angeles is not.

San Francisco will not be ready for sales on New Year's Day but if the mayor signs the legislation quickly, the city could be ready in the first week of the new year.

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San Francisco approves rules on recreational marijuana stores

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SAN FRANCISCO - Following weeks of emotional and detailed debate over where to allow new stores, San Francisco supervisors approved regulations for the sale of recreational marijuana when it becomes legal in California in January.