A petition now circulating in Missouri would place a constitutional amendment on the November 2012 ballot to legalize marijuana for people 21 and older. The “Show-Me Cannabis Initiative” calls for a repeal of marijuana prohibition in the state, reports Kevin Murphy at the South County Times. The measure would regulate cannabis similarly to the way [...]
While the food versus fuel debate continues to put crop-based biofuel production on the back burners it might just be Cannabis sativa that blazes the competition. Researchers at University of Connecticut have found that industrial hemp has properties that make it viable and even attractive as a raw material, or feedstock, for producing biodiesel. Hemp [...]
THERE IS no doubt in Dr. Albert Lockhart’s mind that ganja is a valuable product. “When you arrive at a function, the first thing you are offered is a glass of alcohol. Alcohol produces more damage than ganja has ever produced. There is a direct relationship between alcohol and absenteeism, death and disability from motor [...]
Marijuana, whose botanical name is cannabis, has been used by humans for thousands of years. It was classified as an illegal drug by many countries in the 20th century. Over the past two decades, there has been a growing movement to legalize marijuana, primarily for medical purposes. Medical marijuana use has surged in the 16 [...]
Thousands of websites, including some of the most popular, are going dark today to protest the Stop Online Piracy Act, a bill which is designed to thwart copyright infringement but that Web experts warn could threaten the functionality of the Internet. Encyclopedia giant Wikipedia, popular news-sharing site reddit, browser pioneer Mozilla, photo-sharing favorite Twitpic and [...]
A study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association compared lung function of marijuana smokers, tobacco smokers and nonsmokers. Ana Kasparian and Cenk Uygur discuss the surprising results on The Young Turks.
It’s one of the most iconic and haunting scenes in horror film history. With a fabled witch on her trail, student filmmaker Heather Donahue decides to film herself. She’s been lost in the woods for days. As tears stream down her face, she drops to her knees in utter defeat. Snot pours out of her [...]
Researchers found that multiple measures of lung function actually improved slightly as young people reported using more marijuana — at least up to a couple thousand lifetime joints. “There’s no doubt, if you’ve watched a Harold & Kumar movie, marijuana triggers a cough,” said Dr. Stefan Kertesz, from the University of Alabama at Birmingham, who [...]
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