Primarily, the driving force behind this is the fact that the human brain is still developing until around the age of 21. Science shows that the brain is the last organ in the body to fully mature, and it even continues to grow through the age of 25. That’s why placing restrictions in place, for young adults not to be allowed to legally consume weed until 21, helps prevent any damage to the developing brain.

Schedule III isn't cannabis reform - it's cannabis corporate welfare disguised as progress. While Bob Barr and other establishment conservatives promote this "compromise" as sensible policy, they're either ignorant of the implications or deliberately misleading the public about what Schedule III actually accomplishes. The only rational approach to cannabis policy is complete removal from the Controlled Substances Act, treating cannabis like alcohol and allowing free market competition instead of government-sanctioned monopolies.

In this article, I'm going to lay bare exactly why growing your own cannabis is the only path forward that makes sense – for consumers, for communities, and even for governments serious about eliminating the illicit market. And if the powers that be aren't willing to relinquish this right? Well, throughout history, true freedom has rarely been granted – it's been taken.

The 1971 escalation under Nixon revealed prohibition's fundamentally dishonest nature when the administration declared cannabis "public enemy number one" while privately acknowledging that the president didn't consider it "particularly dangerous" and found penalties "ridiculous." John Ehrlichman's later admission that "we couldn't make it illegal to be either against the (Vietnam) war or Black," but could criminalize drugs associated with these groups, exposes prohibition as deliberate political warfare against dissenting communities.

In the case that CBD alone wasn’t effective in treating seizures effectively, the patients could then take delta-9 THC while gradually reducing CBD dosage. Researchers used logs based on reports from the patients in order to assess the effectiveness of the treatments; they also monitored seizure frequencies before, during, and after administration of cannabis oil treatments. 

The research, published in Advances in Therapy, followed 64 chronic pain patients for six months and found that cannabis-naïve participants experienced the most significant pain reduction, with scores dropping by an remarkable 60%.

The old stereotype of the lazy, unmotivated stoner is officially dead. A new poll from NuggMD has delivered a devastating blow to prohibition propaganda by revealing that 54% of cannabis consumers report that marijuana use has had a positive impact on their careers - including 28% who describe that impact as "very positive." Only 10% reported negative career effects, while 36% said cannabis had no impact at all on their professional lives.

The DEA has released an "emoji decoding guide" that reads like a collaboration between Nancy Reagan's "Just Say No" campaign and a particularly unhinged conspiracy theorist's Pinterest board. According to our nation's premier drug enforcement agency, teenagers are using clovers, pine trees, dragons, cookies, and red maple leaves to orchestrate sophisticated drug trafficking operations through text messages. It's as if the DEA discovered the internet yesterday and decided that every symbol more complex than a smiley face must be part of an international drug conspiracy.

Another study, whose results were published in the Journal of Psychopharmacology, was conducted by Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers and revealed that psilocybin-assisted therapy together with psychotherapy provided patients with a year-long releif from depression. For the study, they analyzed 27 participants, all of whom had a long history with depression. a  majority of them struggled with depressive symptoms for around 2 years before treatment began, and they had an average age of 40. 

Minnesota state investigators analyzed 3,102 patients of sleep apnea who were enrolled in the medical marijuana program. In a study, they discussed how 40% of the patients experienced sustainable and significant improvements after they began using medical marijuana. Cannabis was most commonly consumed by the patients via inhalation, though flower and weed oil were also equally popular. Additionally, high THC products were widely used by the patients.