“Geezer” Drug Use to Have Ripple Effect: Report Says the Need for Substance Abuse Treatment Among Americans Over Age 50 Is Projected to Double by 2020.
Law enforcement officials said that California’s Campaign Against Marijuana Planting, seized 4.4 million plants in 2009. The total was a 50 percent increase over the 2.9 million plants seized in 2008 and almost 10 times the number seized in 2003.
Minimal Relationship Between Cannabis and Schizophrenia, Says New UK Study.
A study of nearly 8700 Australian adults has found that male daily marijuana smokers are four times more likely to have trouble achieving an orgasm, compared with men who don’t inhale.
Exactly half of males aged between 20 and 25 in the Netherlands have used cannabis at some time. In the same group, 21 percent use the drug at present, according to figures published yesterday by the Dutch Central Bureau for Statistics.
Researchers have long recognized the use of cannabinoids for a wide array of symptoms that include nausea and vomiting, pain management, muscle spasticity, anxiety, depression, post-traumatic stress syndrome, inflammatory bowel disease and insomnia.
A team of scientists at the Universidad Pompeu Fabra (UPF) in Barcelona claim they have identified the specific part of the brain affected by marijuana and the mechanism by which it causes memory loss.
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The NIH has granted Temple University researchers $1.5 million to test a laboratory-made version of cannabinoids for slowing the progress of multiple sclerosis.