Read more cannabis stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/4738/cannabis.html2009 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorTue, 24 Nov 2009 9:47:59 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/74495/fla-man-to-smoke-115000th-joint.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagHe set the bar high and smoked the competition. Irvin Rosenfeld, a 56-year-old stockbroker from Fort Lauderdale, will toke his way into the record books today by smoking his 115,000th joint. The best part: It's completely legal. "Yep, provided by Uncle Sam," Rosenfeld told NBC Miami . "They grow it...http://www.newser.com/story/74495/fla-man-to-smoke-115000th-joint.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 20 Nov 2009 10:32:49 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/74049/nations-first-marijuana-cafe-opens-in-portland.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagA cafe in Portland, Oregon, made a little history yesterday when it became the first in the nation to legally open its doors to pot smokers. The Cannabis Cafe welcomes those who are licensed by the state to smoke marijuana for medical reasons. It doesn't sell pot to members—that's...http://www.newser.com/story/74049/nations-first-marijuana-cafe-opens-in-portland.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSat, 14 Nov 2009 12:19:21 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/73798/ama-mellows-on-medical-marijuana.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe American Medical Association has finally softened on marijuana, urging the government to give it a new classification that would open the door to serious research on its medical merits. Now a Schedule I drug, with no accepted medical uses, under the AMA proposal it would become a Schedule II...http://www.newser.com/story/73798/ama-mellows-on-medical-marijuana.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 11 Nov 2009 9:12:15 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/72203/legalizing-pot-may-be-womens-work.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagGood for AG Eric Holder for announcing that the Justice Department will let medical marijuana laws stand, writes Kathleen Parker—at last, the 14 states that give cannabis to the chronically ill won't face further raids by the feds. But it's not enough: 44% of Americans favor full legalization, and...http://www.newser.com/story/72203/legalizing-pot-may-be-womens-work.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 21 Oct 2009 7:00:00 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/65985/researchers-discover-why-pot-makes-you-forget.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagScientists have found the area in the mouse brain that marijuana acts upon to cause forgetfulness, AFP reports. Researchers in Barcelona used two groups of mice, each engineered to be missing one of the two concentrations of receptor neurons for cannabis (CB1) in the hippocampus, an area of the brain...http://www.newser.com/story/65985/researchers-discover-why-pot-makes-you-forget.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 03 Aug 2009 14:55:01 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/63841/medical-marijuana-loophole-has-la-fuming.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagAfter letting marijuana dispensaries multiply across the city, Los Angeles is getting tough on them, telling some to shut down while the city council works to close a loophole that allowed many to open. The city issued a moratorium on new dispensaries in 2007, but many people filed “hardship exemptions”...http://www.newser.com/story/63841/medical-marijuana-loophole-has-la-fuming.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 08 Jul 2009 10:23:00 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/51655/uk-cops-nab-pot-farmer-who-posted-crop-on-youtube.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagPolice taught aspiring drug lords everywhere a valuable lesson yesterday: If you’re going to grow pot, don’t put a video of yourself doing it on YouTube—and definitely don’t sign that video with your real name. But one 25-year-old Somerset man did just that, and was treated to a visit...http://www.newser.com/story/51655/uk-cops-nab-pot-farmer-who-posted-crop-on-youtube.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 24 Feb 2009 12:29:04 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/50280/study-links-cannabis-to-testicular-cancer.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagCannabis use has been linked to a significant increase in the risk of developing testicular cancer, the Independent reports. Those who light up have a 70% higher risk of getting nonseminoma cancer—found in younger men—and the odds worsen with frequency and duration of use, the research has found....http://www.newser.com/story/50280/study-links-cannabis-to-testicular-cancer.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 09 Feb 2009 5:45:49 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/43358/amsterdam-weeds-out-pot-cafes-near-schools.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe city of Amsterdam will close some of its famous cannabis-selling coffee shops, AFP reports, targeting cafes that operate near schools in keeping with a new directive from the Dutch government. The law, which will shutter 43 of the city’s 228 such establishments, isn’t terribly popular with city officials; the...http://www.newser.com/story/43358/amsterdam-weeds-out-pot-cafes-near-schools.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 21 Nov 2008 18:02:01 CST