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History. Marijuana Anonymous (MA) formed in June 1989 [1] to address compulsive use of cannabis. Since its inception, the MA fellowship has followed the Twelve Traditions and suggests practicing the Twelve Steps, both of which originated from Alcoholics Anonymous. [2] Among the founders at the first MA conference in Morro Bay were delegates ...
Website. www .norml .org. The National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws ( NORML / ˈnɔːrməl / ⓘ) is a social welfare organization based in Washington, D.C., that advocates for the reform of marijuana laws in the United States regarding both medical and non-medical use. According to their website, NORML supports "the removal of ...
In July 2013, New Hampshire Governor Maggie Hassan signed into law a bill allowing the use of medical cannabis for patients with "chronic or terminal diseases" and "debilitating medical conditions." The bill was noted as one of the stricter medical marijuana bills in the nation, allowing cannabis only after all other treatment methods have ...
v. t. e. Marijuana ( Cannabis sativa) Cannabis in Massachusetts is legal for medical and recreational use. It also relates to the legal and cultural events surrounding the use of cannabis. A century after becoming the first U.S. state to criminalize recreational cannabis, Massachusetts voters elected to legalize it in 2016.
In a 2018 note published in the New England Journal of Medicine Journal Watch, Dr. Peter Roy-Byrne, the publication’s senior consulting editor for psychiatry, called cannabis use a “Band-Aid ...
The Cannabis Action Network (CAN) is a former U.S. nonprofit cannabis policy reform organization, active between 1989 and 2008. The organization strove to "encourage sensible cannabis use" and advocated for "safe access for responsible adults and patients" through the "challenge the laws of the United States and the individual states prohibiting the possession and distribution of marijuana".
The LaGuardia Committee report was an official scientific report published in 1944 that questioned the prohibition of cannabis in the United States. The report contradicted claims by the U.S. Treasury Department that smoking marijuana deteriorates physical and mental health, assists in criminal behavior and juvenile delinquency, is physically addictive, and is a "gateway" drug to more ...
American Alliance for Medical Cannabis. American Civil Liberties Union. American Medical Marijuana Association. Americans for Safe Access. Buffalo Cannabis Movement. California Cannabis Research Medical Group. Cannabis Action Network. Cannabis Law Reform. Coalition for Rescheduling Cannabis.