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Marijuana has over recent years been advocated as one of the ways people suffering from chronic diseases could keep their pain under control, and has as such been prescribed by doctors to their patients. But a new scientific study comes to show that a class of chemicals found in cannabinoids, the active ingredient in... |
14 August 2009
08:50 GMT |
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Studies covering the effects of marijuana and cannabis on the human body number in the hundreds. Because the use of the recreational drug is so widespread among today's youths, in the developed and developing world alike, researchers have long since tried to find out if the benefits of using it outweigh the down... |
15 June 2009
06:33 GMT |
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Over the past 8 years, marijuana dispensaries throughout the US have come under increased scrutiny by the Drug Enforcement Agency, which has performed large numbers of raids on and seizures at these institutions. In California, the situation has been the worst, as this was the first state to legalize selling pot to p... |
9 March 2009
01:38 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
13:01 GMT |
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America's teenagers consume a great variety of drugs, statistics show, among which the most important and dangerous are heroin, cocaine, crack cocaine, methamphetamine, LSD, ecstasy and marijuana. Over the last few years, since 2000-2002, a decreasing trend in drug use was registered in US secondary schools and ... |
12 December 2008
07:50 GMT |
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Common knowledge has it that in the past, hemp, cannabis or marijuana were cultivated or used in their wild-grown form for purposes like making rope, clothes or other similar items. But a recent discovery of a tomb in the Gobi desert, dating about 2,700 years ago, indicates that this theory may be wrong. The tomb, lo... |
4 December 2008
04:54 GMT |
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According to a new study involving colon cancer, the development of the tumors could be stopped and even reversed with the help of a chemical usually found in marijuana, although the drug itself would need some additional chemical compounds in order to work. The discovery was made by researchers of the University of ... |
2 August 2008
03:51 GMT |
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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 ... |
9 April 2008
14:06 GMT |
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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 so... |
4 April 2008
08:53 GMT |
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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 t... |
12 March 2008
14:06 GMT |
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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 quitti... |
12 February 2008
06:09 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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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 ... |
27 July 2007
08:31 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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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 ... |
11 July 2007
07:29 GMT |
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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, H... |
2 July 2007
13:06 GMT |
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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... |
23 June 2007
06:03 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
11:25 GMT |
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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. "D... |
13 March 2007
04:35 GMT |
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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 aft... |
1 March 2007
11:31 GMT |
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