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Call For UK Prisons To Trial Free Cannabis To See If It Cuts Drug Deaths

Prisons should trial free cannabis schemes for drug-dependent inmates to ascertain whether it could reduce overdose deaths, bring down violence and help people overcome opioid addiction, a police and crime commissioner has said. The North Wales PCC, Ar…

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Cannabis Could Reduce Fentanyl Use, Finds BCCSU and UBC Study

Researchers found that those in the study who had urine tests positive for THC, the primary psychoactive component of cannabis, were approximately 10 per cent less likely to have fentanyl-positive urine, putting them at lower risk of a fentanyl overdos…

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What This NSW Dad-of-Six Wants You To Know About Medical Marijuana

A NSW dad who became addicted to painkillers has opened up about how switching to medical marijuana changed his life. Matthew Sieders began taking pain medication after injuring himself at work last year. The 36-year-old was installing machinery at a j…

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This Is How To Know When It Might Be Time To Lay Off Marijuana

This Is How To Know When It Might Be Time To Lay Off Marijuana
For those of you worried about whether you might be too dependent, here are three signs that it might be time to lay off the weed.
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Saskatchewan Woman Says Use Of Cannabis To Help Her Addiction Not Accepted

For Shelby Curtis, keeping away from hard drugs starts with quieting her thoughts. The 26-year-old got a prescription to use cannabis medicinally earlier this year while in recovery and living in Regina’s Raising Hope housing program for new mothers fa…

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Down (the Rabbit Hole) and Out (of Addiction) 

CANNABIS CULTURE – Magic Mushrooms, now legal in Oregon. have shown promise in treatment of addiction and depression. The question is — will the psychedelic approach ever be legal everywhere else? Numinus just announced its plans to begin a compassion…

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Non-Profit Society Helps North End Residents Swap Substances For Cannabis

The East Coast Cannabis Substitution Program has been trying to curb substance addiction since the beginning of the year. A Halifax program is helping people addicted to substances by supplying them with cannabis. The East Coast Cannabis Substitution P…