New York city waste $75 million arresting people for having a minimal amount of marijuana, less than an ounce.  It costs approximately $1,000 to $2,000 to arrest each person in possession of marijuana.  The NYPD arrests more than 1,000 people a week mainly with their “stop and frisk” practices, which people have claimed are racially-biased [...]

The criminalization of marijuana in the United States has resulted in 15 million people have become prisoners in our jails. According to the California Legislative Analysts and the Director of Finance an estimate of at least several tens of millions of dollars can be saved on the costs of incarceration of marijuana offenders. In addition [...]

Research at UCLA shows that while smoking marijuana damages cells in respiratory tissue but somehow it prevents the cells from becoming malignant. Something in Marijuana exerts an anti-cancer effect, reports UCLA Medical School professor Donald Tashkin. Tashkin’s team interviewed 1,210 cancer patients and found that increased marijuana use did not increase cancer, where as smoking [...]