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Tobacco, alcohol, processed foods and fossil fuels ‘kill 2.7m a year in Europe’
“In a groundbreaking report, the WHO said powerful industries were driving ill-health and premature death by using ‘misleading’ marketing and interfering in governments’ efforts to prevent killer diseases such as cancer, heart disease and diabetes.”
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Brazil’s Supreme Court decriminalizes possession of marijuana for personal use
“The Supreme Court’s ruling has long been sought by activists and legal scholars in a country where the prison population has become the third largest in the world. Critics of current legislation say users caught with even small amounts of drugs are regularly convicted on trafficking charges and locked up in overcrowded jails, where they are forced to join prison gangs.”
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California reaped $270M from marijuana tax last quarter. Where does $ go?
“So where does all this cannabis tax money go?
As Dallal said, it’s targeted for ‘good things’: State-funded projects like transportation initiatives, libraries, environmental cleanups, drug prevention, schools and universities.”
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Marijuana was supposed to help Thailand. Why is the country planning to ban it again?
“Given the problems and the politics, even the former health minister who led the drive to decriminalize pot has grudgingly pledged his support for undoing that decision. ‘We can’t take a personal attitude towards this,’ Anutin, who has since joined the current government as interior minister, recently told local media. But making cannabis illegal again is unlikely to go down easily.”
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Cannabis Use Linked to Lower Rates of Prostate Cancer, Study Shows
“PC prevalence was lower among current marijuana users (46/145, 31.7%) and former users (323/1021, 31.6%) compared to non-users (534/1337, 39.9%, p < 0.001),” the report reads. “PC prevalence was lower among users versus non-users in the elderly (≥65) (36.4% vs. 42.4%, p = 0.016) and non-Hispanic white subgroups (28.9% vs. 38.3%, p < 0.001). There were no significant PC prevalence differences between users and non-users in the younger population (50-64) or other race/ethnicity. In the multivariable analyses, former marijuana use was associated with lower PC compared to never using (odd ratio = 0.74, 95% CI 0.62-0.90, p = 0.001). Current use was also suggestive of reduced prevalence but was not statistically significant (odd ratio = 0.77, 95% CI 0.52-1.14, p = 0.198), possibly due to low sample size. Our findings from a large national survey provide additional data to link marijuana use with lower PC prevalence.”
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Cannabis Tops Alcohol as Americans’ Daily Drug of Choice
For the first time on record, cannabis has outpaced alcohol as the daily drug of choice for Americans.
In 2022 there were 17.7 million people who reported using cannabis either every day or nearly every day, compared with 14.7 million who reported using alcohol with the same frequency, according to a study, published on Wednesday in the journal Addiction that analyzed data from the U.S. National Survey on Drug Use and Health.
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420 (cannabis culture) – Wikipedia
In 1971, five high school students in San Rafael, California,[5][6] used the term “4:20” in connection with a plan to search for an abandoned cannabis crop, based on a treasure map made by the grower.[7][8] Calling themselves the Waldos,[9][10] because their typical hang-out spot “was a wall outside the school”,[11] the five students—Steve Capper, Dave Reddix, Jeffrey Noel, Larry Schwartz, and Mark Gravich[12]—designated the Louis Pasteur statue[13] on the grounds of San Rafael High School as their meeting place, and 4:20 pm as their meeting time.[11] The Waldos referred to this plan with the phrase “4:20 Louis”. After several failed attempts to find the crop, the group eventually shortened their phrase to “4:20”, which ultimately evolved into a code-word the teens used to refer to consuming cannabis.[7]