Pot Laws Pain Some Elders
28-April-2005, United States, L.A. Times
Betty Hiatt's morning wake-up call comes with the purr and persistent kneading of the cat atop her bedspread. Under predawn gray, Hiatt blinks awake. It is 6 a.m., and Kato, an opinionated Siamese who Hiatt swears can tell time, wants to be ...
Dutch support legalizing marijuana in Netherlands
27-April-2005, Netherlands, Jerusalem Post
Two polls released Wednesday showed strong support in the Netherlands for legalizing marijuana outright after several decades of a tolerance policy.
Newspaper Trouw interviewed the mayors of the Netherlands' 30 largest cities, and two-thirds ...
Marijuana: The Myths Are Killing Us
26-April-2005, United States, DEA
When 14-year-old Irma Perez of Belmont, California, took a single ecstasy pill one evening last April, she had no idea she would become one of the 26,000 people who die every year from drugs.1 Irma took ecstasy with two of her 14-year-old friends in ...
'Infomania' worse than marijuana
22-April-2005, United States, BBC News
Workers distracted by email and phone calls suffer a fall in IQ more than twice that found in marijuana smokers, new research has claimed.
The study for computing firm Hewlett Packard warned of a rise in "infomania", with people becoming addicted ...
1,000 fire up Marijuana Party campaign
21-April-2005, Canada, Vancouver Sun
VANCOUVER (CP) --Marijuana smoke wafted around the downtown Vancouver Art Gallery on Wednesday as about 1,000 people kicked off the Marijuana party's provincial election campaign.
Marijuana activist David Malmo-Levine began the rally by giving ...
Liquid medical marijuana product approved in ...
21-April-2005, Canada, Advocate.com
The Canadian government this week approved the prescription sale of a liquid marijuana extract to treat symptoms of multiple sclerosis, the Washington, D.C.-based Marijuana Policy Project reports. Sativex, produced by U.K. firm GW Pharmaceuticals, ...
Painkiller Warnings Rekindle Debate Over Medical ...
19-April-2005, United States, FOXNews.com
The months of recalls and warnings surrounding popular prescription painkillers have done more than frighten consumers, batter drug makers' bottom lines and raise questions about the procedures and criteria by which the Food and Drug Administration ...
And marijuana for all
07-April-2005, Canada, Now
Moral panic over grow ops ignores fact that more of us puff than play hockey
BY Alan Young
I am becoming embarrassed by the endless pot debate in Canada. Deputy Prime Minister Anne McLellan recently stated that marijuana smokers are stupid (Was ...
Current Thinking On Medicinal Marijuana? Seeing ...
29-March-2005, United Kingdom, emediawire
As the debate still rages over the use of Cannabis, hundreds of people who are sick and disable all over the UK who use Cannabis for Medicinal purposes are speaking out through an organisation called People Helping People ( P.H.P.) to give a more ...
Medicinal Marijuana on Trial
29-March-2005, United States, The New York Times
Medical marijuana is now legal in 11 states, and bills to legalize it are pending in at least 7 more. The drug is also at the heart of a case being considered by the United States Supreme Court.
Yet there remains much confusion over whether ...
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