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Growing good-quality pot is probably the last thing Apple wanted to achieve with the iPad, yet GrowOp Technology, America’s first medical marijuana-friendly hydroponics manufacturing company, has announced the launch of a hi-tech digital line of environmental controllers for indoor and urban agriculture based o... |
5 December 2011
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A group of scientists led by expert Daniele Piomelli, at the University of California in Irvine, announces the development of a new method for boosting the effects of marijuana-like compounds that occur naturally in the brain. Their achievement may lead to the creation of new classes of drugs.
The target molecule is... |
28 November 2011
03:05 GMT |
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In a paper published in the October 25 issue of the medical Journal of Neuroscience, researchers at the University of Bristol, in the UK, say that cannabis has been demonstrated to cause adverse side-effects on concentration and memory in humans.
After the plant is used, brain activity in areas where these traits a... |
26 October 2011
03:58 GMT |
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In a recent study, investigators at the University of California in Berkeley (UCB) have taken a look at the consequences the Netherlands were facing for allowing the quasi-legal use of cannabis on its territory.
The results were more surprising than the researchers anticipated, for starters because they expected t... |
14 September 2011
08:07 GMT |
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A new study carried out by an international team of immunologists, concluded that cannabis compounds trigger a suppression of the body's immune functions, and actually promote cancer growth.“Cannabis is one of the most widely used drugs of abuse worldwide and it is already believed to suppress immune funct... |
25 November 2010
08:57 GMT |
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Austin Seraphin is a guy who wrote a truly moving story about learning to see via his iPhone. “I consider it the greatest thing to happen to the blind for a very long time, possibly ever,” the visually-impaired Austin wrote back in June. Most recently, he got an iMac, and he’s just as satisfied with... |
20 September 2010
10:27 GMT |
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A new research published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal – CMAJ, says that for people who suffer from chronic pain, smoking cannabis helps improve mood, reduces pain and improves sleep.The research was carried out by a team of researchers from McGill University Health Center (MUHC) and McGill Univer... |
30 August 2010
06:53 GMT |
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Researchers have recently determined that young adults who use cannabis often and for prolonged periods of time are very likely to experience symptoms that can be qualified as psychosis later on. These effects include hallucinations and delusions, but a host of other manifestations can make themselves felt as well. D... |
2 March 2010
04:40 GMT |
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The fact that cannabis is forbidden in most countries is only a recent event. In the past, starting centuries ago, people always smoked pot for various reasons, including leisure, resting purposes, going into trance, or for medicinal use. In Western societies, it has been mostly forbidden, even though not all of its ... |
20 February 2009
05:50 GMT |
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In 2003, the UK relaxed the law on cannabis, so as to downgrade it from a Class B to a Class C drug. The result of this initiative is seen just now, as more than half of the children under 16 have tried the drug, a new UN report indicates, thus pointing to Britain as the country with the highest level of teenage cann... |
19 February 2009
13:31 GMT |
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The use of marijuana in the Western world has been a major cause of concern for decades on end, especially since the 1970s, when it really skyrocketed, most importantly among teens. Now, occasional use is reported by a large segment of the population in countries such as the US, the UK, Germany, France, and others. ... |
5 February 2009
09:50 GMT |
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Worrying statistics show that the use of marijuana among teenagers has increased dramatically between 2002 and 2006, a cause for concern, as far as parents and authorities go. Although most of the teens use the drug for recreational purposes, and only on occasions, the phenomenon is still considered to be very danger... |
3 February 2009
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The British government has upgraded the risk level of cannabis from a Class C drug to Class B, because of rising consumption problems amongst its youth. Just to be on the safe side, authorities have placed the plant in the same category with codeine and amphetamine, and proponents of the idea say that this will help ... |
26 January 2009
10:59 GMT |
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Heroin (diamorphine) can from now own be obtained in drug stores in Switzerland, the people voted on Sunday. Patients with severe dependency will be able to buy both their doses and their needles from the pharmacies, in a move that the Social-Democrat party says will drop crime rates in the country. The Swiss People&... |
1 December 2008
02:18 GMT |
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The parts of the brain affected by long-term, heavy cannabis use are those where memory and the regulation of emotion functions reside. High resolution magnetic resonance imaging of the brain of 15 men who have been smoking at least five joints per day for periods of time at least 10 years long compared to that of pe... |
3 June 2008
08:35 GMT |
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Cannabis has been around for millennia - indeed, as archaeologists have proved, the miracle of cannabis smoke has been puzzling our ancestors ever since the Neolithic age, which means that yes, once humans have found something they really enjoy, it's unlikely they're going to give it up without a fight. Tod... |
2 June 2008
05:26 GMT |
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You may feel high, you may feel sexier, but how does this come when you may be losing your teeth? A new research published in the "Journal of the American Medical Association" has connected heavy smoking of cannabis in young people to a higher risk for periodontal disease.After taking into account tobacco smoking, ge... |
6 February 2008
03:58 GMT |
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You may get high, but your brain gets down. Cannabis mashes up your brain, affecting brain nuclei even in unborn children, especially the cortex, the brain part involved in thinking, learning, attention and planning. The drug also increases the risk of developing psychotic illnesses like schizophrenia.But it is more ... |
19 December 2007
14:06 GMT |
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I knew the boys at Take That weren't exactly the best role models in the world (just look at what Robbie Williams turned out to be - but that's a completely different story). And in case you needed more proof, one of the band's members, Howard Donald has just publicly demanded that "cannabis be legaliz... |
23 November 2007
09:46 GMT |
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Cannabis is advertised by many as a pain reliever. But a new research made at the California Pacific Medical Center Research Institute and published in Molecular Cancer Therapeutics goes much further: a cannabis chemical could impede breast cancer from 'invading' the whole body. Cannabidiol (CBD) could be a... |
20 November 2007
05:46 GMT |
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Who said marijuana is bad? In the end, its use as a pain killer in desperate cases is well known. And now it appears that it can also treat the "mental pain", depression, not only the physical one. An American-Italian team led by Daniele Piomelli, the Louise Turner Arnold Chair in Neurosciences and director of the Ce... |
6 November 2007
03:34 GMT |
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There is a strong advocacy towards using cannabis for relieving pain in many conditions. A new study has come up with a surprising result: even if "moderate" doses of cannabis can ease pain, high doses actually boost it."Our study suggests that there is a therapeutic window for analgesia, with low doses being ineffec... |
24 October 2007
03:48 GMT |
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Just a mild drug without severe consequences? If the fact that many researches have shown it affects brain activity, from thinking to learning, attention and planning, learn this: just one cannabis joint has the same effect on the health of your lungs as smoking up to five cigarettes in one go.A new research made on ... |
31 July 2007
14:36 GMT |
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It is known that cannabis mashes up your brain, affecting brain nuclei even in unborn children, especially the cortex, the brain part involved in thinking, learning, attention and planning. Now a team has come with the strongest proof yet that using cannabis rises the risk of later developing psychotic illnesses like... |
27 July 2007
07:10 GMT |
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You may wonder why teens get addicted to marijuana just as flies get stuck on flypaper, while most adults easily reject the drug. Surprisingly, tests on rats revealed that adolescent rats, too, are more likely than adults to get hooked on cannabis; more than that, the harmful secondary effects inflicted by the drug o... |
25 July 2007
06:22 GMT |
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They put the blame on cannabis for many things: from madness and early aging to fetal malformations. But cannabis is used in some therapies as well and now it has been found to decrease allergic skin reactions. This discovery could lead to the development of new drugs based on tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), cannabis... |
8 June 2007
16:36 GMT |
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Cannabis contains most of the chemicals of a tobacco cigarette, but the damage induced to the lungs can be higher. A 2002 report of the British Lung Foundation showed that 3-4 cannabis cigarettes daily induced the same damage to the lungs as over 20 tobacco cigarettes. But researchers find it difficult to separate th... |
4 June 2007
04:52 GMT |
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After all, marijuana is not so bad. Cannabis-made marijuana may be easing the pain, but marijuana-like chemicals produced by your body may have head brain cells to make proper connections while you are the size of a bean inside the womb.These chemicals, called cannabinoids, were found to work like guideposts for neur... |
26 May 2007
09:21 GMT |
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Quitting marijuana can be extremely difficult. But now better therapies against this addiction in humans could be based on a recently discovered chemical that decreases the desire for marijuana and impedes its brain effects. Rats that received the chemical extracted from larkspur, a plant in the buttercup family, los... |
23 May 2007
17:06 GMT |
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This "social" drug comes to us under the form of marijuana and hashish.Cannabis has been proved beneficial in relieving pains in some severe diseases. But smoking cannabis, besides the drug's effect, is as harmful as smoking tobacco. Now, a USCF team has developed a smokeless cannabis-vaporizing device that deli... |
16 May 2007
09:11 GMT |
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After a joint do you believe you are Napoleon? Or Julius Caesar?That's normal, as cannabis drugs are known to induce psychotic illnesses like schizophrenia. Now they have discovered how. King's College London researchers found that cannabis's active ingredient tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) disinhibits b... |
1 May 2007
05:55 GMT |
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The cannabis or Indian hemp (Canabis sativa indica) is a variety of the common hemp, a grassy plant with sticky leaves and female and male flowers located in different individuals. The plant originated in Central Asia but now is cultivated from Himalaya to Columbia, Jamaica, Eastern Europe and Holland. The breed was ... |
13 April 2007
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