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California's Department of Fair Employment and Housing recently announced an administrative award of $846,300 to a man fired because he had cancer. This is... Here is the original post: Fired Cancer Patient Gets $846,300 Award

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"All patients stated that consuming cannabis had a positive effect on their disease activity" Tel Aviv, Israel: Cannabis use is associated with a reduction in Crohn's disease (CD) activity and disease-related surgeries, according to the results of a retrospective observational study published in the August issue of the Journal of the Israeli Medical Association . Investigators at the...

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Berkeley, CA: The proliferation of Dutch 'coffee-shops,' which allow for the sale of limited quantities of marijuana to patrons age 18 or older, appears to have had little impact on Dutch cannabis use patterns, according to an analysis published online in the scientific journal Addiction . University of California at Berkeley researcher Robert MacCoun compared some 40 years...

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Santa Monica, CA: The closing of medical marijuana dispensaries are associated with an increase in the incidents of criminal activity in those locations, according to an assessment of crime statistics published this week by the RAND Corporation. Researchers analyzed Los Angeles crime data for the ten days prior to and the ten days following June 7, 2010, when...

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Many landowners in New York are having second thoughts about deals they signed with energy companies to allow hydraulic fracturing on their land. See original here: Hydrofracking Leases Subject of Regrets in New York

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NRA Granted Intervenor Status in Wolf Delisting Challenge Go here to see the original: NRA Granted Intervenor Status in Wolf Delisting Challenge

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LONDON (AlertNet) - Governments should invest more in agriculture and give poorer farmers better access to finance to help the world's 1 billion malnourished people weather a "perfect storm" facing the global food system, the international Red Cross movement said on Thursday. Read this article: Time to rethink global hunger fight - IFRC

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KATHMANDU: Addressing the meeting of the UN General Assembly in New York today, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs Narayan Kaji Shrestha termed land degradation and drought as serious problems facing the country. Here is the original post: Climate hazards costing nation dear: DPM

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Country launches website seeking help from world's top experts on how to achieve carbon neutrality by 2020 See the rest here: Maldives crowdsources 2020 carbon neutral plan

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Deserts keep growing around the world, but the process can be reversed if governments act in time, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said Tuesday. The rest is here: World can beat desertification: UN chief