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Solitary consumption: 31 percent of marijuana users prefer using alone
According to a new Yahoo News/Marist Poll, more than four in 10 consume cannabis with people other than their family, while roughly the same amount hide their stash.
This Is Your Teenager's Brain on Pot
A series of studies point out that vulnerable, still-developing adolescent brains don’t mix so well with marijuana, but definitive research is elusive.
After 7 years in prison, a small-time pot grower will reunite with his daughter
Corinna Fields, a second-grader, sent former President Barack Obama a letter last year outlining all the things she wanted to do with her dad if he got out of prison. On his last day in the White House, the president granted Corinna her wish, including her father, Paul, among the 310 drug offenders who received clemency as he prepared to leave office. In his two terms, Obama pardoned or commuted the sentences of nearly 2,000 people, mainly nonviolent drug offenders, who he believed were serving sentences that were overly harsh.
Weed and The American Family: Wanda & Scott
Wanda James and her husband, Scott Durrah, have been on a mission to change the conversation about marijuana after her brother was arrested for possession of 4.5 ounces of pot – and sentenced to 10 years in prison. In 2009, they became the first African-Americans in Colorado to be licensed to operate a medical marijuana dispensary.
Hundreds of Palestinians in Israeli jails launch mass hunger strike
Hundreds of Palestinians in Israeli jails launched a hunger strike on Monday following a call from leader and prominent prisoner Marwan Barghouti, a Palestinian Authority official said. Issa Qaraqe, head of prisoners affairs for the Palestinian Authority, said that "around 1,300 Palestinian prisoners" were participating in the hunger strike and the number could rise. The Palestinian Prisoners Club NGO put the number at 1,500.
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