Before Colorado legalized all marijuana use, the state had legalized the use of medical marijuana. ... In 2012, sales to the 100,000 Colorado residents who had permission from their doctors to use marijuana reached $200 million. ... The business of marijuana sales in Colorado is treated as is any other business. ... This information is available to the Colorado authorities 24 hours a day. ... Harvard University economist Jeffrey Miron calculates that legalization of marijuana could save the U.S. at least $13 billion annually in law enforcement costs while generating more than $6.3 billion in r...

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Although the consumption of cannabis may cause health hazards, criminal punishments, and motor impairments, an active social reform is underway in hopes of optimistic outcomes influenced by Washington's and Colorado's movement. ... University of Massachusetts' Professor Lyle Clark coalesced with the American Civil Liberties Union to petition the DEA for a license to cultivate research-grade cannabis for use in a privately-funded study that aims to develop the plant into a legal, prescription medicine (DEA). ... He strongly believes that Californians should wait a minimum of two ...

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Voters in Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, Oregon and Washington have voiced their support and achieved some gains in legalizing medical marijuana use in these states. ... "Dirk Korf of the Institute of Criminology at the University of Amsterdam has used the smaller studies to estimate that 3 percent of Dutch people had used cannabis at least once in 1970, rising to 12 percent in 1991. ... "Last year, Robert MacCoun of the University of California at Berkeley and Peter Reuter of the University of Maryland, compared trends in cannabis use in the US, Norway (which bans it), and t...

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He was asked if growers have taken steps to promote medical marijuana amidst the negative view of many, he replied, "Providing data on levels of CBD and THC in the various strains of marijuana to researchers, even though all government research is done with marijuana grown at University of Mississippi, allows transparency between what is being grown for sale versus what is being grown for research, like apples to apples or oranges to oranges. ... The other case is about a young girl named Charlotte Figi, who lives in Colorado. ...

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For many years now, pondering minds have questioned the thought of having marijuana, or cannabis sativa, listed as another medicinal drug. Some say that marijuana can not be used as a medicine and that there is no evidence of its medicinal purpose; But on the other hand, there are those who think differently and pose marijuana as a potential use in today's modern world. In any case, marijuana is useful in the medical field and should be legalized for that purpose. Cultivated for at least 5,000 years and serving as one of the oldest crops not grown for food, the marijuana plant began it...

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