Governor Tom Wolf announced this week that eight medical schools—including the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, and Penn State College of Medicine—have been approved by the state to conduct medical marijuana research.
In December 2015, with much fanfare and political grandstanding, the Pittsburgh City Council announced it had passed an ordinance decriminalizing cannabis.
Oprah loves her weed, or at least that's what close friend Gayle King says. During an interview with Ellen DeGeneres, King said that she's never smoked marijuana before but that Oprah has done so in the past.
In the Estonian language, the literal translation of the word "cannabis" is "kanepi". Earlier this week, the rural Estonian town named Kanepi voted to adopt a marijuana leaf as its official logo.
The American population has been sold a spiel for decades that suggests legal drugs, like alcohol and tobacco, are safer than the bud and dust found on the black market.