Showing posts with label THC. Show all posts
Showing posts with label THC. Show all posts
Friday, February 5, 2016

Cannabis sativa vs. Cannabis indica: Science or Folklore?

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Golden Goat or  Sour Diesel? The bland assurances from medical marijuana dispensaries about the physical and psychological eff...
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Tuesday, July 21, 2015

Marijuana Deconstructed

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What's In Your Weed? Australia has one of the highest rates of marijuana use in the world, but until recently, nobody could say for...
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Wednesday, August 20, 2014

The Chemistry of Modern Marijuana

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Is low-grade pot better for you than sinsemilla? First published September 3, 2013. Australia has one of the highest rates of marijua...
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Monday, July 21, 2014

Hunting For the Marijuana-Dopamine Connection

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Why do heavy pot smokers show a blunted reaction to stimulants? Most drugs of abuse increase dopamine transmission in the brain, and ...
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Monday, March 24, 2014

Does Strong Marijuana Cause Addiction?

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Strong pot matters, but maybe not the way we think. Colorado, Washington, and some 20 additional states have now made various provision...
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Tuesday, September 3, 2013

A Chemical Peek at Modern Marijuana

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Researchers ponder whether ditch weed is better for you than sinsemilla. Australia has one of the highest rates of marijuana use in ...
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Thursday, August 22, 2013

“Spiceophrenia”

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Synthetic cannabimimetics and psychosis. Not long ago, public health officials were obsessing over the possibility that “skunk” mari...
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Wednesday, March 20, 2013

Drug News in Brief

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Short takes on matters various. Taking Aim at Pot —Researchers have recently made clinical efforts to test three drugs that might help ...
Wednesday, November 2, 2011

Marijuana: The New Generation

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    What’s in that “Spice” packet? They first turned up in Europe and the U.K.; those neon-colored foil packets labeled “Spice,” sold in sm...
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Sunday, October 23, 2011

Decoding Dope

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Why marijuana gets you high, and hemp doesn’t. Cannabis sativa comes in two distinct flavors—smokeable weed, and headache-inducing hemp. ...
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Thursday, April 7, 2011

Marijuana, Vomiting, and Hot Baths

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A case history of cannabinoid hyperemesis. Cannabinoid hyperemesis, as it's known, is an extremely rare but terrifying disorder marke...
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Sunday, October 3, 2010

Marijuana and Memory

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Do certain strains make you more forgetful? Cannabis snobs have been known to argue endlessly about the quality of the highs produced by t...
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