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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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Forcing the feds' hand on marijuana [Blowback]

Pacific Standard Time — Thursday, March 07, 2013

Forcing the feds' hand on marijuana [Blowback]

Recently, Cathy Jordan, a woman from Florida who uses marijuana as a treatment for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or Lou Gehrig's disease, and who is the namesake for a medical marijuana law proposed in Florida, had her 23 marijuana plants confiscated ...

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