Cannabis News on 21st March, 2006

• Drug tests for parents to keep children
  The Herald
  

• Dutch children of 12 'addicted to cannabis'
  Isabel Conway in Amsterdam, The Independent
  

  Dutch schoolchildren as young as 12 are being treated for addiction to a powerful home-grown marijuana which is up to 20 times stronger than imported varieties, an addiction clinic in the Netherlands has revealed.

• Behavior: Marijuana and a Slower Mind and Body
  Nicholas Bakalar, New York Times
  

  Long-term heavy users of marijuana perform significantly worse on tests of mental agility and physical dexterity than short-term users or nonusers, even when they have abstained from smoking for more than 24 hours, new research shows.

• Canada's Growing Marijuana Problem
  Becky Branford, BBC News
  

  Frank proudly surveys the large log cabin he constructed himself, on a two-acre plot of aromatic evergreen forest he now owns. “All this,” he says, “was built on marijuana.”

• Another Victim of Skewed Drug Priorities
  Mike Beacom, AlterNet
  

  Miami Dolphins running back Ricky Williams may have succumbed to the NFL’s irrational desire to punish players who use nonperformance enhancing drugs over the ones that do.