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A Note on Mixing Marijuana with Other Drugs.

Monday, May 24th, 2010

It is commonplace to come into contact with other drugs while using marijuana. The gateway drug phenomenon is a concern of many anti-drug activists and policy-makers, so use caution when meeting with dealers and be bound to do research on the advantages and risks of any drug you choose to take. If you do make a decision to use othe drugs, I would like to suggest not using them together with marijuana initially. While with many drugs, marijuana has a synergistic effect, it is generally best to become ok with using either substance alone first. (more…)

Marijuana Smoking Circles.

Tuesday, May 18th, 2010

When smoking in groups of 3 or even more, it is referred to as a smoking circle.
This section is simply an intro to smoking circle etiquette. See the text on Smoking Circles for a more complete study of this social phenomenon. Circles take on several shapes a sizes. It’s important to maintain a logical and cyclic rotary order across the circle. This is typically complicated, particularly in oddly shaped circles. Generally one takes 1 or 2 hits and passes to the left ( called “puff-puff pass” ) ; an adaptation of the traditional circle is popular in Europe and is called Euro-style, in which each smoker takes four or 5 long drags before passing. (more…)

Marijuana Effects.

Sunday, April 25th, 2010

Marijuana’s effects are essentially prompted by the chemical compound, delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol. Though its effects are usually ascribed completely to this chemical, the effects are seriously impacted by a bunch of other compounds present in the plant material. The enormous array of psychoactives make it tricky to classify, but most sources specify it as a hallucinogen. Its effects and duration are strongly influenced by dose, system of consumption, individual toleration, and inherited factors. (more…)

Marijuana Health Alert

Wednesday, April 21st, 2010

In the modern US public college system, we are taught from an exceedingly young age the potential health risks of smoking marijuana. Many of those perils are exaggerated in an effort to shock the impressionable youth away from the scourge of marijuana use. While the teachers of health class might have their own agenda, there’s some basis to the health issues of smoking marijuana, and these actually should be considered before trying marijuana.

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Medical use of Marijuana. Part 3

Thursday, April 8th, 2010

Antibiotic Uses Of Cannabis.

In the past twenty years in western medication, marijuana has been allotted antibiotic activity ; as a consequence, one or two studies in relation to this probability have been undertaken. H. B. M. Murphy ( 1963 : twenty ) reported inquiries in Eastern Europe. He said that it is purported to be useful against gram positive organisms at one / 100,000 dilution, but to be largely inactivated by plasma, so that prospects for its use seem to be, limited to E. N. T. ( ear, nose and throat ) and skin diseases.
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Marijuana medical use. Part 2

Sunday, April 4th, 2010

Historians claim that cannabis was first employed in these states as an antiseptic and drug. Other medical uses were later developed and spread across the Middle East, Africa, and Eastern Europe. A few years after the return of Napoleon’s army from Egypt, cannabis became widely accepted by Western medical practitioners. Formerly , it had had limited use for such purposes as the handling of burns. The systematic members of Napoleon’s forces had an interest in the drug’s agony relieving and sedative effects.
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Marijuana Medical Use. Part 1

Tuesday, March 30th, 2010

The term “marijuana” is a word with indistinct origins. Some believe it comes from the Mexican words for “Mary Jane” others hold that “marijuana” comes from the Portuguese word marigu-ano that means “intoxicant” ( Geller and Boas, 1969 : fourteen ). This chapter sketches out the diverse uses of marijuana thru history, and deals with its use in medication and its use as an intoxicant. The experience of the 1960’s might lead one to surmise that marijuana use spreads explosively.
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Marijuana And Dire Brain Injury.

Friday, March 26th, 2010

Research at the Hebrew College in Israel, reported in the book Nature, shows a cannabinoid, like the important ingredient found in marijuana and produced in the brains of many animals, protects mice from brain injury. Mice that sustained brain wounds were found to have raised levels of a compound known as 2-Arachodonoyl glycerol, or 2-AG. Hypothesizing this cannabinoid was produced to stop damage, the researchers administered more of the compound to wounded mice and found it shielded the brain.
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Marijuana and health

Sunday, June 29th, 2008

The attention, memory and ability to training Symptoms of infringement of informative processes include attention decrease, memory impairment and abilities to logic conclusions. Hooker and Jones (1987) have found, that the unitary intoxication cannabis worsens attention and memory indicators. In this double blind research on «skilled consumers» (speaking on , chain smokers of a hemp) the standardised cigarettes containing a THC in number of 1,2 % from gross weight were used.

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Hemp psychosis

Tuesday, June 24th, 2008

Hemp psychosis – the distress of psychics formed at long daily abuse by psychotropic preparations of a hemp. The choronomic signs, allowing to suspect psychosis presence – a hypotaxia of movements (in particular, gait and a small motility), a muffled pronunciation of words (as though speech members are extremely weakened), speech incoherence, a sluggish mimicry. For early stages of a hemp psychosis acoustical hallucinations, phobias, ideas supervaluable, delirium of prosecution, irritability, sensitivity are characteristic; at more serotinal stages apathy and depressive moods, sometimes – a constant addressless rage prevails. As a rule, the psychosis passes against strong mental dependence in this connection at early stages the state of the patient can temporarily be enriched at an intoxication by cannabises.

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