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Teens Pick Pot Over Cigarettes

AP | DONNA GORDON BLANKINSHIP | Posted 05.14.2013 | Teen
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SEATTLE -- Washington high school students who participated in a statewide survey say they are twice as likely to smoke marijuana as cigarettes, and t...

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Caroline Fairchild

Job Seekers Testing Positive For Drugs At Highest Rate Since 2007

HuffingtonPost.com | Caroline Fairchild | Posted 03.07.2013 | Business
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Job applicants are testing positively for drugs at rates not seen since 2007. According to data given exclusively to The Huffington Post by Quest D...

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Anthonia Akitunde

Are You Too Old For Pot?

HuffingtonPost.com | Anthonia Akitunde | Posted 03.26.2013 | Fifty
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In late November, University of Colorado police officers ticketed a man found passed out behind the wheel of his rental car in front of the university...

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Can Our Experience With Tobacco and Alcohol Teach Us How to Protect Children From Pot if Marijuana Is Legalized?

Sue Rusche | Posted 11.10.2012 | Politics
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Sue Rusche

If marijuana is legalized and regulated like tobacco and alcohol, we will repeat history -- and allow a commercial marijuana industry to literally dumb down the precious minds of generations of children.

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Nearly 1 In 5 High Schoolers Drink, Smoke, Use Drugs During School

Posted 08.23.2012 | Home
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About 17 percent of American high school students are drinking, smoking or using drugs during the school day, according to a new study by the National...

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Who Still Supports the Drug War?

Chris Ladd | Posted 06.27.2012 | Politics
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Chris Ladd

Last month Pat Robertson, televangelist and long-time icon of the religious right, announced that it's time to legalize marijuana. The firestorm of shock and indignation from all sides ... never materialized. Not a whimper.

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Still Not Enough Signatures?

Posted 02.03.2012 | Denver
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The Colorado Secretary of State's office determined that the "Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol" campaign fell short of the necessary amount of valid si...

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What's The Number One Reason For Arrest In New York City?

Posted 05.25.2011 | New York
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The NYPD has been unkind to the possessors of 'kind bud'. Marijuana possession was the top reason for arrests in New York city in 2010, according t...

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Teen Marijuana Use Up, Alcohol Use Down

AP | Posted 12.16.2011 | Parents
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WASHINGTON -- America's teens are using more marijuana and less alcohol, according to an annual government study of eighth-, 10th- and 12th-graders ac...

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Scratch N' Spliff: Dutch Use Odorized Stickers In Drug Campaign

The Huffington Post | Curtis M. Wong | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
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In a government effort to curb what is perhaps their nation's best-known vice, Dutch households will soon receive marijuana-scented scratch-and-sniff ...

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Ryan Grim

WATCH: Drug Czar Confronted At Press Conference

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
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More than 850,000 people were arrested for marijuana violations in 2009 -- the second biggest haul in American history, according to the annual Unifor...

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Marijuana Shrinks Your Brain: Study

Reuters | Will Dunham | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
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ong-term heavy use of marijuana may cause two important brain structures to shrink, Australian researchers said on Monday. Brain scans showed the hip...

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You Don't Have to Use Marijuana to Celebrate 4/20 or Support Legalization

Tom Angell | Posted 04.19.2013 | Politics
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Tom Angell

Some people think that only marijuana users should worry about the impact of our marijuana laws. In truth, we all pay for the enormous costs of enforcing marijuana prohibition.

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