Topic: - on November 24, 2002 at 10:59:45 AM CET
'Millions' have tried ecstasy
Between three million and 3.5 million adults in the EU have probably tried ecstasy at least once, says a European drug monitoring body. Up to half a million have taken it once a week or more at some time in their lives, according to the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction.
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Topic: - on November 24, 2002 at 10:51:31 AM CET
Stockbroker using Uncle Sam's medical marijuana for 20 years
A breeze billows the pungent smoke from the marijuana cigarette around his face, and Irvin Rosenfeld immediately feels better. A stock broker, Rosenfeld deals with millions of dollars while smoking up to 12 joints daily - marijuana he gets from the federal government to treat a rare bone ailment. "It has made my life much easier to live and kept my condition in check," Rosenfeld said Wednesday, 20 years to the day he received his first marijuana shipment from the government under a program which today has only six other members.
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Topic: - on November 23, 2002 at 10:03:57 AM CET
Holy Shit
ChristiansForCannabis believe that the laws that prohibit the possession, use and cultivation of marijuana/cannabis are immoral and unjust and the Christian support of these laws to be in violation of God's word. We base our position on: the inerrancy of the Bible; God's creatorship of the earth and all that is in it, including the seed bearing plant we call cannabis or marijuana; Jesus's commands to not judge anything before the appointed time and to love as he loved; and how love does no harm to its neighbor.
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Topic: - on November 22, 2002 at 3:12:47 PM CET
Cannabis Linked to Depression, Schizophrenia
Smoking cannabis increases the odds of suffering from depression and schizophrenia, doctors said on Friday.
The occasional joint may not be harmful, but people who start using cannabis in their teens have a higher risk of later being diagnosed with a psychiatric disorder and the severity of the illness is linked to the length of exposure to the drug.
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Topic: - on November 21, 2002 at 12:18:36 AM CET
CLEAN
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Topic: - on November 21, 2002 at 12:08:29 AM CET
John Lennon's dope box
and pipe from the 1960s on view at a London auction house Friday Nov. 8. The dope box, part of a collection of Beatles memorabilia, was valued at $28,00-34,000 before the Nov. 19 auction, but remains unsold.
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Topic: - on November 18, 2002 at 5:56:27 PM CET
Potent pot puts new spin on decriminalization debate
Marijuana is not what it used to be.
The Woodstock-era weed smoked by legions of baby boomers has morphed in recent years into a drug whose potency has more than tripled.
And that has ignited a debate about whether America's most commonly used illict drug, a substance tried by an increasingly younger audience, has grown more dangerous.
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Topic: - on November 16, 2002 at 10:19:14 AM CET
Arnold's Marijuana Moment
Arnold Schwarzenegger encouraged the director of "Pumping Iron," the documentary that launched him in Hollywood 25 years ago, to re-release it unedited - including a marijuana-smoking scene.
"I would refuse to wipe out that record or change it or alter it because of image's sake," Schwarzenegger said this week. "That would not be true to the filmmaker."
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Topic: - on November 12, 2002 at 3:48:10 PM CET
Krötenschlecken und ähnliche Naturdrogen derzeit "in"
"... noch nie so viele Dinge ausprobiert" Die Suchtgiftfahnder der Polizei sagen es ohne Umschweife: Jugendliche haben noch nie so viele Dinge ausprobiert, von denen sie sich eine drogenähnliche Wirkung erwarten, wie in jüngster Zeit. Hier einige Beispiele aus den Erfahrungen der Exekutive: Pilze werden zu psychedelischem Gulasch verarbeitet, Tollkirschen ins Müsli gemischt.
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Topic: - on November 11, 2002 at 10:45:52 AM CET
Pure cannabis 'as harmful as tobacco'
Smoking pure cannabis is just as harmful to lungs as tobacco, according to a new report. Three cannabis joints a day cause the same damage to the lining of the airways as 20 cigarettes, the British Lung Foundation study says.
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Topic: - on November 11, 2002 at 12:16:50 AM CET
New 'killer' mushroom set to end heroin trade
Tajik and Uzbek researchers have developed a genetically-modified "killer mushroom" that could wipe out the heroin industry in neighbouring Afghanistan, Tajik biologist Shavkat Saidmuradov told newspapers on Saturday. Experiments financed by the United Nations as part of its war on drugs have shown the efficacy of the "polyspore papavericide" in destroying the opium poppy on which heroin is based, said Saidmuratov, a collaborator with the Tajik drugs squad.
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Topic: - on November 11, 2002 at 12:08:55 AM CET
Ein Glas macht das Hirn fehleranfällig
Schon ab 0,4 Promille erkennt das Gehirn seine eigenen Fehler nicht mehr: Der Alkohol setzt, wie niederländische Wissenschaftler gezeigt haben, die Selbstkontrolle des Denkorgans außer Kraft.
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