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A Government Accountability Office probe of the White House’s anti-drug media campaign has found that the $1 billion-plus spent on the effort so far has not been effective in reducing teen drug use.
An Arizona couple who claim marijuana as deity and sacrament— as well as food, shelter and medicine— staked their religious freedom claim this week in federal court in Albuquerque.
Islamic leaders in Mogadishu gave a woman 11 lashes for selling cannabis Thursday, the first female to receive such punishment since the fundamentalist rulers took over the capital in June.
The reporters made their way through the dim lights and small huts of Virginia City’s Chinatown. In the huts, one of the reporters later wrote, “A lamp sits on the bed, the length of the long pipe-stem from the smoker’s mouth; he puts a pellet of opium on the end of a wire, sets it on fire, and plasters it into the pipe much as a Christian would fill a hole with putty; then he applies the bowl to the lamp and proceeds to smoke--and the stewing and frying of the drug and the gurgling of the juices in the stem would well nigh turn the stomach of a statue. John likes it, though; it soothes him, he takes about two dozen whiffs, and then rolls over to dream.”
In June 2003, an Athens County jury acquitted an Athens area woman of aggravated vehicular homicide in connection with a car crash that killed a Shade man.
A compound found in marijuana won’t make you high but it may help keep your eyes healthy if you’re a diabetic, researchers say.
It is reported that 70% of erratic drivers stopped by gardaí are under the influence of some kind of drug.
Many adults in Brazil believe cannabis should remain illegal, according to a poll by Datafolha published in Folha de Sao Paulo. 79 per cent of respondents think smoking marijuana should remain a crime.
’Thank goodness the Obscene Publications Squad has gone,’ sighed a fraught Mr Justice Mars-Jones in 1976 as he sent down Detective Chief Inspector George Fenwick and four of his colleagues for taking bribes from Soho pornographers. ‘I fear the damage you have done may be with us for a long time.’
Like many in this hardscrabble region, Abdurahman and his family are near-destitute people who possess vast riches. Their cinderblock farmhouse, clinging to the stony slopes of northern Morocco’s Rif Mountains, is as empty as an abandoned bunker, but a closer look at their lands reveals an illicit bounty.
It was astounding to see Narconon Arrowhead making the claim that “Most experts agree that there is enough THC (the active chemical in marijuana) in one gram of high grade marijuana to produce a lethal overdose that could result in death if swallowed by a toddler.” Astounding because marijuana is the least toxic active drug known to man.
CANNABIS use has risen sharply in remote indigenous communities, with children as young as 10 smoking the drug.
The same brain machinery that responds to the active substance in marijuana provides a central “on-demand” protection against seizures, researchers have found. They said their discoveries suggest that the “endocannabinoid” system might constitute a prime target for drugs against seizures of epilepsy and other neurodegenerative diseases.
Allen Long began his quest for fame in the 1960s as the lead singer of a garage band that once opened for the Byrds.
Hemp has a bad rap for being the marijuana plant. But one Russian scientist is proposing a drug-free variety to put naysayers at ease while providing material for clothing and oil for cooking.
HIGH-strength cannabis is the next major drug enforcement challenge, a senior United Nations official said today.
CANNABIS is as socially unacceptable as cocaine or heroin and the drugs barons who profit from it should be pursued with the full rigour of the law.
Five Alberta teens ran screaming from a residential garage after it exploded Thursday night, said witnesses.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has a marijuana problem. On April 20 of this year, the FDA rejected marijuana for medical uses.
THC inhibits the formation of amyloid plaque, the primary marker for Alzheimer’s disease (AD), far more effectively than approved medications, according to preclinical data to be published in the journal Molecular Pharmaceutics.
SCHOOLS in Greater Manchester are to screen their buildings for traces of cannabis, cocaine, amphetamines, heroin and LSD as part of a drive to stamp out drug use among pupils.
The same brain machinery that responds to the active substance in marijuana provides a central “on-demand” protection against seizures, researchers have found. They said their discoveries suggest that the “endocannabinoid” system might constitute a prime target for drugs against seizures of epilepsy and other neurodegenerative diseases.
The Magistrates’ Association is considering asking the Government to change the classification of cannabis for under-18s to reflect the dangers the drug poses for this age group.
