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Has Coca-Cola Entered Negotiations to Produce Cannabis-Infused Beverages?

Written by:
Dan MacGuill
Sep 18, 2018 The beverage giant did not confirm or refute news reports that they were in talks with a Canadia ...
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Did the National Cancer Institute 'Finally Admit' That Marijuana Kills Cancer?

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Alex Kasprak
Jun 4, 2018 Viral stories falsely suggest that a NIH fact sheet was “quietly” amended to state that cannabis ...
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Does Legalizing Marijuana Necessitate Euthanizing Pot-Sniffing Dogs?

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Alex Kasprak
May 8, 2018 Arguments made by one sheriff opposed to legalized marijuana are dubious and disputed by police ...
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Did a New Study Show That Marijuana Leads to a Complete Remission of Crohn’s Disease?

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Alex Kasprak
Apr 25, 2018 The results of a 22-person pilot study have been misrepresented through years of viral reporting ...
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Did the World Health Organization Declare Medical Marijuana Has No Health Risks?

Written by:
Alex Kasprak
Apr 11, 2018 A December announcement by a WHO committee stated that one specific component of marijuana is sa ...
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Two New Studies Suggest Opioid Prescriptions Drop in States with Legalized Marijuana

Written by:
Alex Kasprak
Apr 4, 2018 The findings run counter to political arguments against legalizing marijuana for recreational use.
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What Were the Consequences of Legalizing Weed in Colorado?

Written by:
Dan MacGuill
Feb 14, 2018 A newspaper editorial gets some facts right, and some wrong, in weighing up the consequences of ...
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Did Jeff Sessions Praise Marijuana in a College Rock Band?

Written by:
Dan MacGuill
Feb 7, 2018 A spoof video about the notoriously anti-pot Attorney General was produced by a comedy group and ...
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Attorney General Sessions Orders Return to Pre-Obama Marijuana Enforcement

Written by:
Dan MacGuill
Jan 5, 2018 The move has caused uncertainty in the legal cannabis industry just days after California opened ...
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Can Marijuana Use Lead to Simultaneous Screaming and Vomiting?

Written by:
Alex Kasprak
Dec 7, 2017 A story employed the colorful portmanteau term "scromiting" to describe an illness potentially r ...
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Did the Drug Enforcement Administration Legalize Synthetic Marijuana While Keeping 'the Real Thing' Illegal?

Written by:
Alex Kasprak
Nov 30, 2017 Bioidentical but synthetic THC has been approved for medical use since 1985, but it was only rec ...
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Did Chelsea Clinton Say That Marijuana Is Killing People?

Written by:
Kim LaCapria
Sep 28, 2016 Chelsea Clinton made factually questionable statements about marijuana during a September 2016 c ...
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Drug Law Lobbying by Corrections Corporation of America

Written by:
Kim LaCapria
Apr 4, 2016 The quote used by a popular meme about cannabis legalization and for-profit prisons is accurate, ...
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Cannabis Kills Cancer Cells in Preclinical Studies

Written by:
Dan Evon
Aug 24, 2015
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The Origins of 420

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Snopes Staff
Sep 13, 2002 The story of how the code '420' entered drug parlance as a term signifying the time to light up ...
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In early June 2022, we received reader mail that asked us to look into whether former US President Donald Trump tweeted to his supporters on January 6, 2021, the day of the US Capitol riot, to remain peaceful with no violence and to support our Capitol Police and law enforcement.

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