Rhode Island Medical Cannabis Recommendation - theFarmacist

It is no surprise that marijuana use has increased in Colorado since the state legalized the drug for recreational use. However, what is surprising is that new U.S. federal data shows that Rhode Island tops Colorado as pot capital of the country.
According to a new National Survey on Drug Use and Health found that nearly 16 percent of all residents of Rhode Island age 12 and over smoked pot in the past month during the period studied from 2012-2013. That is slightly below 1 out of 6 people....

Congress may have tried to stop residents of the nation’s capital from being able to light up joints with impunity, but lawmakers retreated last week in another important drug-war front: medical marijuana.
The $1 trillion spending bill that passed last week included a provision that blocks the Justice Department from spending any money to enforce a federal ban on growing or selling marijuana in the 23 states that have moved to legalize it for medical use...

As Jon Stewart mockingly noted on Tuesday night, the $1.1 trillion federal appropriations bill is packed with all sorts of nuggets that weren’t widely touted. In addition to the list Stewart scrutinized, 85 words tucked into the 1,603-page bill give...