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"Why would anyone want to give their child an expensive pill... with unacceptable side effects, when he or she could just go into the backyard, pick a few leaves off a plant and make tea for him or her instead? Cannabinoids are a very viable alternative to treating adolescents with ADD and ADHD"
Wednesday 19 January 2005
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That's right, the Mexican drug cartels.
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LOS ANGELES — This school doesn't have a problem with students not paying attention.
Thursday 25 February 2010
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Report of the International Narcotics Control for 2009, INCB
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There has been a tidal shift in politics and on Marijuana laws in America, from Obama lightening up on pot prosecutions to the recognition of cancer prevention properties.
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The World Health Organisation suppressed a report which said cannabis was safer than alcohol or tobacco, it has been claimed.
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A study by researchers of the University of Lausanne, Switzerland, on oral THC in eight healthy volunteers, of whom two developed psychotic reactions for some hours after ingestion, received some media attention. The press agency Reuters noted "Oral Cannabis Induces Psychosis at Low Levels". However, subjects did not receive low doses of THC and they did not develop a psychosis but psychotic reactions, such as anxiety and delusion, well known occasional side effects of cannabis (...)
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In the 1910s Henry Ford experimented with using agricultural materials in the manufacture of automobiles. Ford was partly motivated by a desire to find nonfood applications for agricultural surpluses, which existed then as they do now. He tried out many agricultural crops, including wheat.
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In spite of having been formulated nearly two decades back, there is as yet no consensus on the validity of the clinically popular self-medication hypothesis (SMH) of substance use disorders in patients with dual diagnosis. SMH broadly proposes that patients use substances in a non-random fashion so that the psychopharmacologic characteristics of particular substances are used to alleviate a variety of psychiatric symptoms and emotional distress.
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We did manage to focus the attention of the international drug policy forum (that is, all the functionaries, politicians, volunteers, experts, and citizens with an interest in drug policy) on the most important issues: Harm Reduction, Human Rights, and last but not least Regulation, after the Repeal of Prohibition.
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