According to a recent study, long-term pot smokers are 62 percent less likely to develop head and neck cancers than people who do not smoke marijuana. The study featured 434 patients suffering from head and neck cancers, and compared them with 547 individuals without head and neck cancers. All participants in the study were living in the Boston area from December 1999 to December 2003.Researchers found that smoking marijuana from once every two weeks to three times every two weeks cut the risk of head and neck cancer in half.Individuals who began smoking pot at an older age also had…
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The supreme court in Argentina has ruled that it is unconstitutional to punish people for using marijuana for personal consumption. The decision follows a case of five young men who were arrested with a few marijuana cigarettes in their pockets. But the court said use must not harm others and made it clear it did not advocate a complete decriminalisation. Correspondents say there is a growing momentum in Latin America towards decriminalising drugs for personal use. The Argentine court ruled that: “Each adult is free to make lifestyle decisions without the intervention of the state.”Supreme Court President Ricardo Lorenzetti said…
A recent study conducted by University of California, San Diego researchers found some teenage binge drinkers had less brain damage when they combined their drinking with marijuana use. The study tested 42 adolescents between the ages of 16 and 19, broken into three groups: a control group, those with a history of binge drinking and those with a history of combined binge drinking and marijuana use.Half the time, those who binge drank and used marijuana as they drank had less structural brain abnormalities than those who only binge drank, according to the study. There was data, however, that contradicted this…
A study just published online by the journal Neurotoxicology and Teratology suggests that marijuana may protect the brain from some of the damage caused by binge drinking. The study, by researchers at the University of California San Diego, used a type of high-tech scan called diffusion tensor imaging to compare microscopic changes in brain white matter. The subjects were students aged 16-to-19, divided into three groups: binge drinkers (defined as having five or more drinks at one sitting for boys or four or more for girls), binge drinkers who also smoked marijuana, and a control group who had very little…
Madrid, Spain: The administration of selective cannabinoid agonists halt the proliferation of human prostate cancer cells in vitro (in a Petri dish) and in vivo (in laboratory animals), according to preclinical findings published online this week in the British Journal of Cancer and reported by Reuters News Wire. Investigators at the University of Alcala School of Medicine in Spain assessed the anti-proliferative and anti-tumor properties of two synthetic CB2 agonists. The agonists, which bind selectively to the CB2 receptors in a manner similar to the active components in cannabis, induced prostate cell death and inhibited tumor cell growth in animals.”This…
Dunedid, New Zealand: Inhaling cannabis has contrasting effects on lung function compared to smoking tobacco, according to the results of a population-based study published online in the European Respiratory Journal. Investigators at the University of Otago in New Zealand compared the effects of cannabis and tobacco smoke on lung function in over 1,000 adults. Researchers reported, “Cumulative cannabis use was associated with higher forced vital capacity [the volume of air that can forcibly be blown out after full inspiration], total lung capacity, functional residual capacity [the volume of air present in the lungs at the end of passive expiration], and…
MEXICO CITY — Mexico decriminalized small amounts of marijuana, cocaine and heroin on Friday — a move that prosecutors say makes sense even in the midst of the government’s grueling battle against drug traffickers. Prosecutors said the new law sets clear limits that keep Mexico’s corruption-prone police from shaking down casual users and offers addicts free treatment to keep growing domestic drug use in check.”This is not legalization, this is regulating the issue and giving citizens greater legal certainty,” said Bernardo Espino del Castillo of the attorney general’s office.The new law sets out maximum “personal use” amounts for drugs, also…
A Irishman suffering from Multiple Sclerosis (MS) can’t come home because his medication includes cannabis-based drugs. Noel McCullagh, originally from Ballinasloe, Co Galway, has been told by the Irish authorities that he will be arrested if he attempts to bring his legally prescribed medication, Bediol and Bedrocan, prescribed in Holland, into Ireland.The social inclusion unit of the HSE have told the 33-year-old that he will be arrested if he attempts to come home to his family for a visit with the medication.But Noel McCullagh is adamant that he is not making a ‘political football’ of the issue; his life is…
USA — Sue was dying of cancer. She was thin, her skin was gray, and she hadn’t eaten much in several days.Offered a medication to relieve some of her symptoms, she reluctantly accepted. Within five minutes of taking this medication, she again had color in her cheeks, was laughing with friends and asking for a fruit smoothie. It was the first of several she would request that day and her grateful husband was only too glad to oblige. What was this miracle drug? What many call marijuana, pot, or weed, the medical community calls cannabis. Cannabis contains approximately 70 different…
CANNABIS CULTURE – Join ‘The Worldwide Rally For The Prince of Pot’, and show your support for Marc Emery, the marijuana activist who is going to jail in the United States for FIVE YEARS for selling marijuana seeds. Rallies will be on the saturday prior to the day of his sentencing in Seattle, US, expected in October. Join the Facebook Page Marc Emery is a marijuana activist, Vancouver store owner, and editor of Cannabis Culture Magazine who was raided by the DEA in 2005 and arrested for selling marijuana seeds over the Internet. After fighting extradition to the United States…
