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Medical Marijuana Not Legal, Say Authorities

...Enforcement Administration raided eleven //medical marijuana producing establishments Wednesday. The raids are ...s. According to the pot retailers, which include marijuana medical clinic owners, the move is unpardonable as they claim the legality of their business. Says...

Youngsters- Beware of Marijuana!

A recent study concludes that quitting drugs like marijuana is not easy as it results in withdrawal symptoms. ... by the University of Michigan, showed that use of marijuana by teenagers in the U.S. decreased from 2005 to 2006. However, the same "Monitoring the Future" stud...

Natural Brain Substance Linked to Parkinson's Symptoms

...at a substance similar to the active ingredient in marijuana but produced naturally in the brain helps to contr...e findings in Nature don't suggest is that smoking marijuana might help alleviate Parkinson's. Any useful therapy would have to avoid overwhelming the delicat...

Long-term Marijuana Smoking Leads to Respiratory Complaints

Long-term exposure to marijuana smoke is linked to many of the same health problem...colleagues sought to find the relationship between marijuana smoking and pulmonary function or respiratory complications. “While there is convincing data on t...

Marijuana Relieves HIV Nerve Pain

Smoking marijuana effectively relieves chronic HIV-associated nerve ...nia hospital and randomly assigned to smoke either marijuana or identical placebo cigarettes three times a day for five days. The study found people who smoke...

Genetic Tests to Reveal ‘substance Abuse’ Tendencis

...gaging in behaviors such as smoking and alcohol or marijuana use," Philibert said. "What matters most is not whether you have a particular gene but whether the gene is expressed, and what other environmental factors may be at play. Genetic variation in and of itself is not deterministic," he added. In a re...

No Dying in Peace for Woman Prescribed Medical Pot

...ict between the federal government, which declares marijuana an illegal controlled substance with no medical value, and the 11 states allowing medical marijuana for patients with a doctor's recommendation. Two years back, the Supreme Court ruled against Raich...

Improve School Ethos to Combat Teen Evils

...haviours (such as regular smoking and drinking and marijuana use). Follow-up research suggested impacts might increase over time as the changes 'bedded down' in schools. This evidence makes sense, say the authors. After the family, and alongside the media and peers, the most important institution in the live...

Girls With Early Puberty at Greater Risk for Drugs, Sex, Alcohol

... high-risk behaviors such as intravenous drug use, marijuana use and sexual intercourse.” The study was based on a nationally representative sample of about 4,000 adolescents who participated in the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health. The students were under age 15 for the first part of the stu...

Alarming Rise of Methamphetamine Use Among Australian Youth

... 50 per cent even use ecstasy and 68 percent smoke marijuana at the same time. This mixing of meth with cocaine or ecstasy can increase the probability of heart attacks or can even cause severe dehydration. Nicole Lee Head of Clinical Research at drug research and treatment center. Turning Point says "Us...

Moratorium Proposed on Advertisements of Newly Approved Drugs

...so voted 11-9 to amend the bill to subject medical marijuana to FDA safety and effectiveness requirements. Th...so voted 11-9 to amend the bill to subject medical marijuana to FDA safety and effectiveness requirements. GPL...

Marijuana Helps to Combat Lung Cancer

An ingredient found in marijuana may help fight lung cancer, the most lethal of all cancers worldwide, say scientists//. In lab and mouse studies, the compound known as THC (Tetrahydrocannabinol) cut lung tumor growth in half and helped prevent the cancer from spreading, said Anju...

Cognitive Problems Occur More Rapidly in Female Alcoholics Than in Males

...is commonly associated with other drug use such as marijuana or cocaine, which may produce cognitive problems separate from alcohol. These findings indicate that specific cognitive deficits occur in alcoholism." Both Flannery and Garbutt believe these results extend the concept of physiological "telescoping...

Marijuana can Trigger Psychotic Symptoms, New Study Finds

More evidence of the damaging impact of marijuana on humans has come to light. //It can trigger temp... cannabis and mental health, scientists found that marijuana worsens psychotic symptoms of schizophrenics. Doctors at Yale University in the U.S. tested the im...

Obesity Pill Zimulti Increases Depression, Suicidal Thoughts

... brain receptors that trigger intense hunger after marijuana use....

Medical Marijuana to Be Legalized

...Legislature are on the brink of legalizing medical marijuana in New York. The lead sponsor of the Assembly's bi... and longer life." Under the measure, to acquire marijuana a person would have to have a debilitating or life-threatening illness and would need a doctor's not...

Cannabis can Help to Treat Allergies, Autoimmune Disorders

...est research suggests that cannabis, also known as marijuana or ganja, can help in the treatment of allergies a...utoimmune diseases should not try to self-medicate marijuana because of its side effects, reported the online edition of the New Scientist. The human body cont...

Marijuana Worsens Breathing Problems in Current Smokers

...kers to develop COPD, while smoking cigarettes and marijuana together boosted the odds of developing COPD to th...ther cigarettes or marijuanain other words, adding marijuana smoking to cigarette smoking increased the risk by one-third, says Wan Tan, M.D., of St. Pauls Hospi...

Vaporisers Make Marijuana Safe for Medicinal Use Compared to Smoking

...results of the pilot study are significant because marijuana is used medicinally as a pain reliever for multipl...no', a commercially available vaporiser that heats marijuana leaves to a temperature between 180 and 200C so that active ingredients like tetrahydrocannabinol (T...

Medical Marijuana Activist Drops Lawsuit

...ivist, who had been crusading for the right to use marijuana for medicinal purposes has dropped her lawsuit ag...002 to prevent any interference with their medical marijuana use. A federal judge in San Francisco rejected their arguments in March 2003, but a 9th Circuit a...

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