The CARERS Act would do a number of things to help suffering patients that find relief from using medical marijuana. Cannabis Radio has a petition circulating calling on Senator Chuck Grassley to schedule a hearing for the bill. So far the biggest hurtle to the bill has been Senator Grassley’s lack of movement. If Senator Grassley continues to drag his feet, he will basically kill the bill. Below is more about the petition, which can be signed at this link here:

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There is little doubt in my mind that marijuana — cannabis, weed, pot, ganja, skunk, bud, herb, sticky icky, mota (in Mexico), le shit (in France), whatever you want to call it — is on the road to legalization. There are a lot of reasons for that. One of them is the changes taking place around the world.

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• Equipment causes emissions equal to those of New Hampshire
• The industry's energy use is undoing cities' efficiency gains

"Saturday Night Live" finally took the plunge, fully parodying a primetime GOP debate, a challenge given the bulging Republican field.

The Donald Trump character got it going fast.

"Wolf Blitzer looks like Papa Smurf," Darrell Hammond's Trump said. "Debates are stupid. You should be paying me."

Jeb Bush, played by Beck Bennett, then interjects, "Um, Wolf, may I take a desperate swing at Donald, now?"

"This is what he does! He says these offensive things, then he bullies anyone who challenges him. Well, guess what? You can't insult your way to the presidency," Bush says, mirroring a line the real Jeb used last week.

The Trump character responds by calling Bush a "jughead."

Who can honestly say that they don't use drugs? I'm not necessarily talking about illegal drugs, like marijuana or psychedelics. Alcohol is a drug. Nicotine is a drug. Caffeine is a drug. Aspirin is a drug. Many kids are on Adderall and many parents [and grandparents ;) ] take Viagra. There are drugs to help us stay awake, drugs to help us fall asleep, drugs that heal our pain and cure illnesses. You can't watch television without seeing tons of commercials for drugs. Some drugs have been around for thousands of years while new ones are being discovered and created all the time these days. And yet most people I talk to don't see themselves as drug users.

America's deadliest drug problem grew even deadlier last year, as overdose deaths from opioids hit a record 28,647, or 78 people a day.

This epidemic is fueled as much by well-meaning doctors as it is by dope pushers. Overdoses of the most popularly prescribed legal painkillers, such as oxycodone and hydrocodone, accounted for more deaths last year than heroin, according to numbers released Friday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Charles “Fred” Cundiff received word Friday that President Barack Obama had cut short his life sentence. The 69-year-old logged onto his prison email and thanked Beth Curtis, who had stumbled upon his case years ago as she advocated for her brother, another senior citizen handed a life sentence long ago for nonviolent marijuana crimes.

In his email, Cundiff asked Curtis to convey his gratitude to two others who clamored for his freedom. The email system he was using costs inmates 5 cents per minute and, he told Curtis, “[I] don't have enough money to take care of all this.”

Cundiff has been behind bars since 1991 and will need to pinch nickels another year.