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Downgrading marijuana’s danger level: What Catholics should know

May 13, 2024 Catholic News Agency 7

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CNA Staff, May 13, 2024 / 06:00 am (CNA).
The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) is moving toward reclassifying marijuana as a less dangerous drug, according to recent reporting from the Associated Press… […]

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Catholic Church highlights concerns regarding Germany’s cannabis legalization

April 2, 2024 Catholic News Agency 1

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CNA Newsroom, Apr 2, 2024 / 11:15 am (CNA).
While Germany legalized the recreational use of cannabis on Monday, April 1, the debate over the contentious… […]

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Denver archbishop: Why I wrote a pastoral letter on marijuana

December 1, 2023 Catholic News Agency 3

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ACI Prensa Staff, Dec 1, 2023 / 18:00 pm (CNA).
In a Nov. 28  interview with “What We Need Now,” the Archbishop Samuel Aquila of Denver explained what motivated h… […]

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Oklahoma voters reject marijuana legalization

March 8, 2023 Catholic News Agency 1

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St. Louis, Mo., Mar 8, 2023 / 13:45 pm (CNA).
Oklahomans on Tuesday night overwhelmingly voted down a measure that would have legalized recreational marijuana, which the Catholic bishops of the state had urged… […]

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Opinion: The links between cannabis and psychosis can no longer be ignored

November 9, 2022 Dr. Adam A. J. DeVille 19

Jared Staudt’s recent essay “Consuming true medicine: Why Catholics should oppose legalizing marijuana” suggested that the use of certain intoxicants—in this case cannabis—does not typically help users grapple with reality; instead, it enables them to […]

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Weed on the ballot: two states legalize recreational marijuana while three reject it

November 9, 2022 Catholic News Agency 0

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St. Louis, Mo., Nov 9, 2022 / 13:45 pm (CNA).
At the midterm elections on Tuesday, voters in Maryland and Missouri chose to accept ballot measures to legalize marijuana for recreational use. The decisions came d… […]

The Dispatch

Extra, extra! News and views for November 2, 2022

November 2, 2022 CWR Staff 4

‘They’ and ‘Them’ – “I was scrolling though Instagram recently when I came across a post from a Christian woman with 165,000 followers explaining how excited she and her husband were to have a ‘transgender’ […]

The Dispatch

Consuming true medicine: Why Catholics should oppose legalizing marijuana

October 27, 2022 Dr. R. Jared Staudt 49

Within this multiyear Eucharistic Revival, we should not only foster devotion to the sacrament we recognize as the source and summit of our faith, but we must also remove the obstacles that keep us from […]

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Marijuana legalization is on the ballot in five states. What should Catholics think?

October 11, 2022 Catholic News Agency 3

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St. Louis, Mo., Oct 11, 2022 / 10:05 am (CNA).
On Nov. 8 voters in five states — Arkansas, Maryland, Missouri, North Dakota, and South Dakota — will decide on whether to legalize recreational marijuana use. Catholic bis… […]

The Dispatch

Marijuana: A wolf in sheep’s clothing

April 1, 2019 Richard Fitzgibbons, M.D. 37

While lawmakers are moving to legalize the recreational use of marijuana in many states, psychological science is demonstrating its serious risks to the mental health of youth and adults. The use of marijuana has been […]

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