By Crystal Norman | Staff Writer | California cities and counties are in the process of enacting a list of bans and regulations on medical marijuana before the state government provides restrictions in March 2016. The reason the counties are in a rush is because they’re "paranoid" about how to govern pot, according to sacbee.com. “If you have a medical card for health purposes I don’t see why the state would come in and regulate or ban your usage,” said CSUSB criminal justice major Astrid Grandls. A 70-page framework was created in September 2015, allowing the state to step in and have authority over licensed growers if these counties didn’t have their own regulations … [Read more...] about Marijuana bans in California
Recreational Marijuana
Marijuana use doubles among Americans
By Marco Montoya |Staff Writer| The number of American recreational Marijuana smokers has doubled. According to a recent study, in the years 2012 and 2013 use of Marijuana doubled from the ten years prior. The number of adults who use Marijuana rose from 4.1 percent to 9.2 percent between the years 2001-02 to 2014, according to CNN. The study was conducted on interviews with over 36,000 American adults and was sponsored by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA). This analysis appears in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) Psychiatry. It was led by Bridget Grant, Ph.D. of the NIAAA Laboratory of Epidemiology and Biometry, according … [Read more...] about Marijuana use doubles among Americans
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