18 Apr 2014

Study Finds Signs of Brain Changes in Pot Smokers

posted in: Cannabis News | 0

A small study of casual marijuana smokers has turned up evidence of changes in the brain, a possible sign of trouble ahead, researchers say. The young adults who volunteered for the study were not dependent on pot, nor did they show any marijuana-related problems. “What we think we are seeing here is a very early indication of what becomes a problem later on with prolonged use,” things like lack of focus and impaired judgment, said Dr. Hans Breiter, a study … Read More

15 Apr 2014

What Perfect Marijuana High Would Feel Like

posted in: Cannabis News | 1

Marijuana users really enjoy strong weed, but would prefer that it came without paranoia, memory loss and impaired ability to function. That’s according to a new report from the Global Drug Survey in partnership with The Huffington Post, which anonymously surveyed more than 38,000 users around the globe. All marijuana is not created equal. Effects can vary depending on the plant variety, cultivation, processing and blending. Cannabis has two major plant types — indica and sativa — and hundreds of … Read More

15 Apr 2014

Are Baby Boomers Ready To Give MJ a Second Chance?

posted in: Cannabis News | 0

Are aging baby boomers ready to rekindle a long-ago love affair with marijuana? That is a weighty question for cultural anthropologists and cool-eyed business analysts alike as the once celebrated, later maligned, but explicitly contraband cannabis plant goes legit — for the first time in nearly 80 years — in a new era of medical and recreational use. For many who smoked marijuana in their dorms in the ’60s and ’70s, it was an act of rebellion, a communal experience, … Read More

9 Apr 2014

Bill Would Loosen MMJ Restrictions in D.C.

posted in: Cannabis News | 0

D.C. Council members introduced legislation Tuesday that would greatly expand the availability of medical marijuana to D.C. patients by doing away with the list of qualifying conditions that currently restrict access to the program. A bill introduced by Council member Yvette M. Alexander, Ward 7 Democrat and chairman of the Committee on Health, would eliminate a list of four conditions that currently allow a patient to seek a doctor’s referral to use medical marijuana. Instead the bill would amend the … Read More

8 Apr 2014

Feds Favor Anti-Pot Research

posted in: Cannabis News | 0

As the nation’s only truly legal supplier of marijuana, the U.  S.  government keeps tight control of its stash, which is grown in a 12-acre fenced garden on the campus of the University of Mississippi in Oxford. From there, part of the crop is shipped to Research Triangle Institute in North Carolina, where it’s rolled into cigarettes, all at taxpayer expense. Even though Congress has long banned marijuana, the operation is legitimate.  It’s run by the National Institute on Drug … Read More

8 Apr 2014

Feds Appeal Medical Marijuana Injunction

posted in: Cannabis News | 0

The federal government will appeal a March 21 court injunction that lets authorized patients temporarily keep growing their own medical marijuana past April 1, when the old system was to be outlawed. The move by Health Canada keeps thousands of medical marijuana users off balance as to how long they can continue home growing under personal production licences. They had been under a federal directive to stop growing, destroy any unused pot and confirm in writing by April 30 they … Read More

1 … 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 … 200