medical marijuana

Rethinking Schedule 1 Drugs

Nathan Nayor/Staff Writer Congress is deliberating on legalizing marijuana and the United Nations has recently rescheduled cannabinoid products. It should make sense to readdress how we treat other drugs long regarded as dangerous, especially psychedelics.  Reevaluating drugs and their medical purposes have happened in the past. Ketamine was once a schedule 1 drug as it […]

FIU Study Blazing A Trail For Medical Marijuana

Dalton Tevlin/Sports Director When Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried took office in 2018, one of her chief priorities was weed. She created an 18 member medical marijuana advisory committee, bringing together lawyers, medical cannabis providers, and even the CEO of Trulieve, Florida’s largest network of dispensaries. “I’m proud to establish the medical marijuana advisory committee to […]

Florida taken to trial over prohibiting medical marijuana smoking

Patients in Florida have every right to use marijuana prescribed by their doctor in ointments, vapes, and edibles… They just can’t smoke it.

Let’s be blunt, marijuana needs to be legalized already

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 […]

Florida voters will decide on medical marijuana

Medical marijuana use will be in the hands of Florida voters this upcoming November.

Medical Marijuana: Finally on the ballot

Contributing Writer Jennipher Schafer argues that it's about time medical marijuana is on the ballot.

Florida puts it bluntly: Medical marijuana on the ballot

The long battle to get medical marijuana on the Florida ballot has been won, but the controversy has only started.

University-approved medical-marijuana panel

Students for Sensible Drug Policy will be hosting medical marijuana patient Irvin Rosenfeld to discuss his experience with the Supreme Court and his views on the status of the War on Drugs.

SGA COMMENTARY: Progress made, but political party discussions die out

Progress has indeed been slow, and SGC-MMC is less enthused about the idea than they initially were. But, considering how productive SGC-MMC has been lately—compared to earlier in the semester—it seems the political parties system might be too complicated, too demanding and too lacking in prospective benefits to give the senate the impression that it warrants the amount of time and effort it requires.

SGA COMMENTARY: New proposals show innovation and competence

The plan is brilliant and refreshingly transparent, and in talking about it among friends, I find myself dishing with sincerity the campus cliché of how this will finally put the University on “the map.”
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