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Updates & Legacy — Stigmabase is a Canadian Non-Governmental & Nonprofit Initiative. Our mission is to inform about stigma around the world and make the data collected accessible for researchers. Stigmabase is very attentive to misinformation and lists only reliable sources. — The marginalization of individuals or categories of individuals is a too common phenomenon. Millions of people are facing this problem around the world and many complex factors are involved.

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Medical marijuana article gets national attention

Pacific Standard Time — Tuesday, November 27, 2012

Medical marijuana article gets national attention

The Oregonian's Noelle Crombie's story in The Sunday Oregonian on the youngest patient in the state's medical marijuana program has gotten a lot of response. Experts discussed it on the "Today" show. The medical marijuana issue comes up about 2 ...

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