Bernardo Mandalho | Contributing Writer President Joe Biden pardoned people who’ve been convicted of marijuana possession under federal law on Oct. 6. Now with midterm elections coming up, this act can encourage governors to do the same and that’s what I hope for Florida. Biden also committed to reassessing and bringing into discussion marijuana’s drug […]
By: Patricia Menendez/Contributing Writer The University’s newly released 2018 Annual Security and Fire Safety Report showed that drug arrests and drug referrals on the Modesto Maidique Campus have gone down from 2016 to 2017 by about 14 percent and 17 percent respectively. 36 drug arrests and 79 drug referrals were made on the MMC […]
Daniela Perez/ Staff Writer On Jan. 4, Attorney General Jeff Sessions rescinded the Cole Memo, the Obama administration’s relatively passive policy on the enforcement of federal cannabis laws. While pot remains illegal under federal law, the Justice Department chief withdrew federal guidelines that limited prosecutions of businesses and individuals who sold pot in a legal […]
As of May 2016, Marijuana use is legal in 25 states for recreational and/or medical use however, a recent research study by FIU psychologist Elisa Trucco suggests that the drug may have detrimental effects on users in the long run. According to Trucco, her study, supported by the National Institutes of Health, found that long-term […]
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Image by Spiritual Enlightenment via Flickr Stephanie Piedrahita | Opinion Director steph.piedrahita@fiusm.com I am tired of hearing about another friend of mine getting arrested for a small bag of weed. I’m even more exhausted to hear about the ridiculous sentences weed smokers get that sometimes surpass the jail time of convicted rapists and murders. It’s time to […]
