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Category: News Archive

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07.042011April 7, 2011

“Marijuana stores violate federal law”

By WFADIn News Archive

Today, Michael C. Ormsby, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Washington, announced that he has notified landlords that...

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06.042011April 6, 2011
New Broadcast about research on “medical marijuana”

New Broadcast about research on “medical marijuana”

By WFADIn News Archive

Interview with Andrea G. Barthwell, MD, Fellow of the American Society of Addiction Medicine. Topic: Research on so called “medical”...

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06.042011April 6, 2011

National study confirms teen drug use trending in wrong direction: marijuana, ecstasy use up since 2008

By WFADIn News Archive

Following a decade of steady declines, a new national study released today by The Partnership at Drugfree.org and MetLife Foundation...

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06.042011April 6, 2011

Detroit-area judge: Medical marijuana is illegal

By WFADIn News Archive

The Daily Tribune (USA) reports that a suburban Detroit judge says Michigan’s medical-marijuana law is illegal and is trumped by...

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06.042011April 6, 2011

Research discovers how marijuana affects the way the brain processes emotional information

By WFADIn News Archive

Drugs like marijuana act on naturally occurring receptors in the brain called cannabinoid receptors. However, the mechanisms by which these...

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05.042011April 5, 2011

Public health importance of triggers of myocardial infarction: a comparative risk assessment

By WFADIn News Archive

Acute myocardial infarction is triggered by various factors, such as physical exertion, stressful events, heavy meals, or increases in air...

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04.042011April 4, 2011

Will Montanta be first State to repeal medi-pot?

By WFADIn News Archive

First, the Montana medical marijuana repeal bill passed the House (62 to 37), then the final Senate vote was (28...

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03.042011April 3, 2011

How a big US bank laundered billions from Mexico’s murderous drug gangs

By WFADIn News Archive

As the violence spread, billions of dollars of cartel cash began to seep into the global financial system. But a...

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01.042011July 4, 2020

Montana Senate passes bill to repeal medi-pot programme

By WFADIn News Archive

The Montana senate has just passed the HB 161, a bill to repeal the state’s current medi-pot program, by a...

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31.032011March 31, 2011

Feds’ praise for medical pot goes up in smoke

By WFADIn News Archive

For a brief time earlier this month, the National Cancer Institute, a branch of the federal government’s National Institutes of...

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