Marijuana + Alcoohol = Massive Brain Cell Death
	Marijuana is by far the most common illicit drug in the western world. However, pregnant women should be aware that this drug could affect severely the brain development of the children in their wombs. THC, the main active chemical of marijuana, enters into the fetal blood causing intrauterine growth retardation and a temporary syndrome comprising lethargy and lowered muscle tone, but also, on long term, attention deficits, learn ... [read more >>]
	09 April 2008, 14:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Tom Cruise Fronts Medical Marijuana Brand
	Tom Cruise and his Scientology friends are not happy campers right about now, and for good reason. Tom's Scientology cult has just found out that a new strain of medical marijuana is currently being marketed as "Tom Cruise Purple" by licensed cannabis clubs in Northern California. The marijuana in question is sold in vials reportedly featuring a picture of Cruise laughing hysterically. This jibe at the poster boy’s ... [read more >>]
	04 April 2008, 08:53GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Sex, Marijuana and Cancer
	Sex, drugs and ... cancer, not violence! More specifically, sex, marijuana and head and throat cancer. The human papilloma virus (HPV) has been connected to throat cancers most often in younger, married college graduates by a study carried out by a team at Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center report and published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. HPV is sexually transmitted and can induce some cervical (uterus) ... [read more >>]
	12 March 2008, 14:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Marijuana Withdrawal Causes Deep Sleep Impairment
	Any marijuana smoker will tell you that he/she is in total control and can quit easily, only that they smoke just like that, for fun. Really? A new research published in the journal "Drug and Alcohol Dependence" shows that the effects of withdrawal from marijuana smoking can be as bad as those experienced when quitting tobacco smoking, meaning irritability, anger and impaired sleeping. "These results indicate that some m ... [read more >>]
	12 February 2008, 06:09GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Marijuana Chemical Against Breast Cancer!
	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 an alternative to chemotherapy devoid of the extreme side effects, like nausea and high infection risk, and the chemical b ... [read more >>]
	20 November 2007, 05:46GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Brain's Marijuana Treats Depression
	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 Center for Drug Discovery at the University of California, Irvine has discovered that spurring the levels [ADMARK ... [read more >>]
	06 November 2007, 03:34GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Cheap Booze and Marijuana Use Connected
	One vice never comes alone. And young adults do not have many financial resources. That's why the finding of a team at the University of Buffalo Research Institute on Addictions (RIA) may not be a surprise: consumption of malt liquor, the cheap, high-alcohol beverage often marketed to teens, expose young adults to a higher risk for alcohol problems and illicit drugs consume, especially marijuana. "In our study of young adults ... [read more >>]
	27 July 2007, 08:31GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Why Are Teenagers More Vulnerable to Cannabis Consumption and to Its Negative Effects?
	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 on their brain (reflected on memory skills) are more severe in their case. During a test period of 18 days, the t ... [read more >>]
	25 July 2007, 06:22GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Smoking Pot and Partying, I'd Say Paris Hilton Is Back to Normal
	OK, I'm glad to see that Paris fully recovered after getting out of jail. I was starting to get worried. All that talk about how she is gonna stop partying and make the world a better place. I thought this was just another case of post-traumatic stress. But it's all good now, Paris is back to normal. But in the beginning I did not know what to make of Paris. Her interview with Larry King turned my world upside down. ... [read more >>]
	11 July 2007, 07:29GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

New Mexico Is Going to Cultivate Its Own Medical Marijuana
	Marijuana has been proven to be useful against nausea, and depression resulted from chemotherapy and other aggressive treatments against cancer or HIV. That's why in many countries, marijuana is permitted for medical purposes. Medical marijuana law exists also in eleven US states: Alaska, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Maine, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont and Washington. Now, New Mexico has got its new me ... [read more >>]
	02 July 2007, 13:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

New Isotope Method Tracks Down Where Your Marijuana Comes From
	You can no longer lie. Scientists can tell now if your marijuana came from Mexico or grew in your apartment. A team at Alaska Stable Isotope Facility has developed an isotope-based method that can tell which region a marijuana sample comes from and if it grew indoors or out. In a few years, the researchers could make even a marijuana isotope map, acting like a fingerprint database. "There are scientists already doing this for drug ... [read more >>]
	23 June 2007, 06:03GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

What's The Difference Between Hashish and Marijuana?
	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 cultivated 3,000 years ago in China as a medicine employed against rheumatism and malaria and was used even by Neolit ... [read more >>]
	13 April 2007, 11:25GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Google Redirects You to Marijuana Links
	Let's have a quick test: go to Google and type Marijana in the search box. If you didn't know, Marijana is a common name in numerous Slav dialects. After you press the search button, Google returns you a lot of links but the most obvious is the “Did you mean” function displayed just after the search box. “Did you mean” marijuana,” Google asks. No, I didn't mean marijuana, I just wanted to find more information about my mate, ... [read more >>]
	13 March 2007, 04:35GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Teacher Arrested after Texting Cop for Weed
	In the “Dumbest People” great hall of fame, the following individual probably occupies one of the first three places! Ann Greenfield, a middle school teacher from Kentucky, got arrested after sending a state trooper an SMS containing a request for some weed. The lady accidentally send that text message to the cop after failing to write down correctly her dealer's ... [read more >>]
	01 March 2007, 11:31GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia