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For decades, thanks to misinformation courtesy of the federal war on marijuana, the plant was thought of as a gateway drug – something that made it more likely for users to transition to harder drugs like cocaine or heroin. This has been disproven, thanks to the hard work of scientists and […]
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How Will the Monsanto-Bayer Merger Affect the Expanding Medical Marijuana Industry?
May 10th, 2018 
Awake Goy There are many reasons to be concerned about the Bayer-Monsanto merger, one of the most dangerous business deals in history. While the notion of these two gigantic corporations conjoining has been highly contested, the duo finally managed to sell off enough assets to garner anti-trust approval. by Vicki Batts, guest writer In a move that […]
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Tags: affect, Bayer, expanding, Marijuana, medical, merger, Monsanto 
No Comments »Illinois Police Just Claimed if Marijuana is Legalized, They’ll Have to Kill Their Police Dogs
May 8th, 2018 Awake Goy (Support Free Thought) – Chad Larner, the training director of the K-9 Training Academy in Macon County, Illinois said in a recent interview that police departments throughout the state may have to euthanize drug dogs if marijuana is legalized. Larner said that it would be abusive to retrain the dogs and that it could […]
Big Pharma Synthetic Marijuana Leaves 2 Dead, 89 Hospitalized In Illinois
April 25th, 2018 Awake Goy So far this month, 89 people have been hospitalized and 2 left dead after ingesting synthetic marijuana produced by Big Pharma, according to the Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH). The users ingested an FDA-approved version of synthetic cannabis known as K2 or Spice. Herb.co reports: Synthetic cannabis is a man-made chemical compound designed to act […]
Posted in World News Tags: hospitalized, Illinois, leaves, Marijuana, pharma, synthetic No Comments »Smoking marijuana found to have the same weakening effect on the blood vessels as cigarettes
April 23rd, 2018 Awake Goy (Natural News) Cannabis’s health benefits have helped it gain approval for medicinal use in several states, but it’s important to keep in mind that this does not mean that it’s perfectly healthy when smoked. In fact, if you’re smoking it, you might want to hear what researchers from the University of California, […]
Posted in World News Tags: blood, effect, found, Marijuana, smoking, vessels, weakening No Comments »72 Year Old Grandma Shot Dead As SWAT Raided Her Home To Arrest Her Son For Marijuana
April 16th, 2018 Awake Goy Michael Anthony Livingston, 50, was suspected of selling a plant that is legal in some form in well over half the country. Because the other half of the country still violently and callously kidnaps, cages, and kills people for this plant, however, Livingston is in jail and his mother is now dead. Geraldine Townsend, 72, […]
Jeff Sessions Marijuana Rolling Papers Are A Thing
March 10th, 2018 Awake Goy Daily movement news and resources. Popular Resistance provides a daily stream of resistance news from across the United States and around the world. We also organize campaigns and participate in coalitions on a broad range of issues. We do not use advertising or underwriting to support our work. Instead, we rely on you. Please […]
A Spiritual Perspective On Smoking Marijuana That’s Important For The World To Consider
February 27th, 2018 Awake Goy Next Story I was having a conversation yesterday about something that has always been a reflection point for me. Since I was a kid, I was never drawn to substances, even alcohol. I always felt great, high even, when just being. As I got older and I finally tried cannabis for the first time, and […]
Posted in World News Tags: consider, important, Marijuana, perspective, smoking, spiritual, world No Comments »Legal Marijuana Propelling Public Banking
February 22nd, 2018 Awake Goy Legal Marijuana Propelling Public Banking Above Photo: Courtesy LA City Council Things are moving fast in California. A Los Angeles City Council committee approved a resolution February 16 to support the recently introduced state bill that would create a Public Bank that could take deposits from legal marijuana businesses. California Senate Bill 930, introduced at the end of January, […]
FBI: Marijuana Arrests Outpace All Violent Crime
February 20th, 2018 Awake Goy The Influence, Guest Waking Times Reminder: the war on drugs is still in full effect. It may be easy to forget with more and more states turning to legalized recreational and medical marijuana. It can get lost when we hear so many government officials responding to the opioid crisis with calls for compassionate treatment instead of […]
Marijuana laws in New Jersey are loosening restrictions in the wake of a young boy’s tragic death to rare cancer
February 14th, 2018 Awake Goy (Natural News) Phil Murphy, New Jersey’s governor, has recently signed “an executive order for broader medical marijuana access.” Jake Honig, a seven-year-old boy who died last January due to a rare bone cancer, seems to have moved the governor to make this particular decision. Jake, who received the nickname “Jake the Tank” […]
Posted in World News Tags: Death, jersey, loosening, Marijuana, restrictions, tragic, young No Comments »Medical marijuana is causing a dip in alcohol sales: Researchers confirm a correlation
February 13th, 2018 Awake Goy (Natural News) Have you ever wondered what legalizing medical marijuana in your state could do to alcohol sales? A group of researchers used that question as the basis of a new study that they conducted, and now they have an actual answer. According to the group of researchers, which hailed from two […]
Posted in World News Tags: alcohol, causing, confirm, Marijuana, medical, researchers, sales No Comments »Canadian Military to spend $170,000 so leaders can see what it’s like to be stoned on marijuana
February 12th, 2018 Awake Goy The Canadian Forces is buying kits that will let its leaders experience what it’s like to be stoned on marijuana. The “marijuana simulation kits” will include “marijuana impairment goggles,” among other items. The Canadian Forces wants to acquire 26 of the kits by April 30 or sooner if possible. “The […]
Girl Scout sells 300 boxes of cookies in front of San Diego marijuana dispensary
February 4th, 2018 Awake Goy A young San Diego girl has found a novel way of bolstering sales of her Girl Scout Cookies – selling them outside a local marijuana dispensary. The Urbn Leaf center posted a picture of the innovative Girl Scout outside its store in the Mission Bay area of the city Friday. The cheeky post calls […]
Marijuana Adviser To Sessions Wants To Drug Test Everyone
January 24th, 2018 Awake Goy “We want [drug screens] to be routine in all medicine…” It’s bad enough in 2018 that the war on drugs still exists in the deluded minds of government higher-ups, just as some states begin to legalize recreational marijuana. And just as they do, Attorney General Jeff Sessions dropped the bomb that the Federal Government ended its leniency toward […]
Pa. regulators reverse course; Medical marijuana won’t stop patient gun purchases
January 14th, 2018 Awake Goy Pennsylvania will no longer provide the names of medical marijuana patients to law enforcement agencies. The state Department of Health made the announcement late Friday afternoon in the wake of an Inquirer and Daily News story that called attention to the fact that marijuana patients would not be able to buy firearms. […]
Posted in World News Tags: course, Marijuana, medical, patient, purchases, regulators, reverse No Comments »Movement Against Sessions On Marijuana Growing
January 11th, 2018 Awake Goy Movement Against Sessions On Marijuana Growing There is still no one in Congress who has come out in support of Attorney General Jeff Sessions backward steps on marijuana in either chamber of Congress. He stands alone. In addition, support for positive congressional action is growing but it remains to be seen what US Attorneys will […]
Attorney General Jeff Sessions Attacks Legalized Marijuana, Jeopardizes Multi-Billion Dollar Industry
January 9th, 2018 Awake Goy January 9th, 2018 By Carolanne Wright Contributing writer for Wake Up World Attorney General Jeff Sessions has begun the new year with an assault against state legalized cannabis, claiming it violates federal law and revoking an Obama-era memo that instructed state prosecutors to focus on illicit activity which specifically causes harm — like selling drugs to minors […]
Posted in World News Tags: attacks, attorney, general, jeopardizes, legalized, Marijuana, sessions No Comments »Ron Paul calls on Jeff Sessions to resign over marijuana decision
January 7th, 2018 Awake Goy Former Rep. Ron Paul hit out at Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Saturday over his decision to roll back an Obama-era policy that led to a hands-off approach when dealing with marijuana in states where it has been legalized, and called for Sessions to resign. The new policy allows federal prosecutors […]
Despite Legalization, Border Patrol Will Go After Marijuana at California Checkpoints
December 29th, 2017 Awake Goy Marijuana possession still will be prohibited at eight Border Patrol checkpoints in California, a reminder that state and federal laws collide when it comes to pot. The U.S. government classifies marijuana as a controlled substance, like heroin and LSD. “Prior to Jan. 1, it’s going to be the same after Jan. 1, because nothing changed on our end,” said […]
Posted in World News, World Order, World Politics Tags: after, border, california, despite, legalization, Marijuana, patrol No Comments »SYNTHETIC MARIJUANA APPROVED BY DEA FOR MEDICINE WHILE THE REAL THING REMAINS ILLEGAL
December 24th, 2017 Awake Goy CE| The DEA has just announced that the same manufacturer of the notorious fentanyl has produced a synthetic marijuana product they deem more medically valuable and safer than real cannabis. The announcement was made a few weeks ago in the Federal Register by the DEA that the drug Syndros, a liquid form of synthetic THC, will be now […]
Posted in World News, World Politics Tags: approved, Marijuana, Medicine, remains, synthetic, thing, while No Comments »Prosecuted Then, Prioritized Now: LA Brings Social Equity to Marijuana Sellers
December 12th, 2017 Awake Goy LOS ANGELES – Beginning in January in Los Angeles, individuals who are low-income and/or have had a conviction for a marijuana-related offense will enjoy priority status when it comes to applying for a license to legally sell the herb. Cultivators or manufacturers will also have such status, thanks to the Los Angeles City Council. On Wednesday […]
Posted in World News, World Order, World Politics Tags: brings, equity, Marijuana, prioritized, prosecuted, sellers, social No Comments »NRA Silent as States, Feds Ban Gun Sales to Medical Marijuana Patients
December 12th, 2017 Awake Goy The National Rifle Association (NRA), which fancies itself a champion of the Second Amendment and gun rights, is nowhere to be found as state governments are moving to confiscate firearms from medical marijuana patients. Police in Honolulu, Hawaii, recently sent out a letter to 30 medical cannabis patients warning them they had 30 days to […]
CANNABIS legalization a gateway to gun confiscation? Medical marijuana users told to turn in their guns
December 12th, 2017 Awake Goy (Natural News) The Founding Fathers made it very clear that the purpose of the Second Amendment is to allow the people to defend themselves should the federal government become tyrannical and oppressive in nature. It is quite literally one of the only things standing in between individual freedom and a massive authoritarian state – that […]
Posted in World News Tags: Cannabis, confiscation, gateway, legalization, Marijuana, medical, users No Comments »DEA Claims Synthetic THC Made by a Group of Criminals is Safer Than Actual Marijuana
December 4th, 2017 Awake Goy December 3, 2017 By Matt Agorist As the Free Thought Project previously reported, one of the manufacturers of a fentanyl drug was exposed for lobbying against marijuana, while simultaneously bribing doctors to push their dangerous opioids. Now, after the federal government granted Insys permission to make a synthetic version of cannabis, they are […]
Posted in World News, World Politics Tags: actual, claims, criminals, group, Marijuana, safer, synthetic No Comments »Honolulu Police Say Medical Marijuana Users ‘Have 30 Days’ to Turn in Their Guns
December 2nd, 2017 Awake Goy Honolulu Police Department has been sending out letters to legal users of medicinal weed that they must forfeit their weapons, as reported by multiple news organizations. The first legal medical marijuana dispensary opened in Hawaii this August, according to the Associated Press, even though medicinal pot was first legalized in 2000. There are currently 29 […]
LAPD Captain Investigated in Illegal Marijuana Grow
December 1st, 2017 Awake Goy A Los Angeles Police Department captain faces an internal affairs investigation after it was discovered he was allegedly operating an illegal marijuana growing operation. The LAPD said in a statement Thursday it had assigned an un-named employee to home while its internal affairs unit investigated. Other department officials, who declined to be publicly identified, said […]
Huge marijuana cannon for launching drugs across border seized in Mexico
November 14th, 2017 Awake Goy The Mexican Attorney General’s Office Sonora branch seized the ingenuous contraption in a joint operation with military personnel near the town of Agua Prieta, right across the border from Douglas, Arizona. The improvised artillery piece consisted of a huge steel pipe, taking up most of the space in the back of a minivan, and an […]
Posted in World News Tags: across, border, cannon, drugs, launching, Marijuana, seized No Comments »12-year old epileptic girl sues Sessions to legalize medical marijuana nationwide
November 11th, 2017 Awake Goy A 12-year-old girl suffering from epilepsy is suing Attorney General Jeff Sessions in order to legalize marijuana for medicinal purposes on a federal level. A motion by the US government to dismiss her case has been denied. Alexis Bortell, 12, was joined by four other plaintiffs in her lawsuit, filed in US District Court […]
Posted in World News Tags: epileptic, legalize, Marijuana, medical, nationwide, sessions No Comments »Report Sheds Light On How Many People Die From Overdosing On Marijuana
November 9th, 2017 Awake Goy Next Story Marijuana legalization has been the talk of North America for years now. It’s arguable that one of the biggest campaign promises made by Canada’s new Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, was his goal to legalize cannabis countrywide. In the US, cannabis is legal in some form in 23 states, and with that we see a staggering […]
