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Cannabis smoke is not as carcinogenic as tobacco smoke. In a review article published today in Harm Reduction Journal, Dr. Melamede from the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, USA, writes that although cannabis smoke and tobacco smoke are chemically very similar, evidence suggests that their effects are very different and that cannabis smoke is less carcinogenic than tobacco smoke. The pharmacological effects of tobacco and cannabis smoke differ in many ways, mainly because tobacco smoke contains nicotine while cannabis smoke contains tetrahydrocannabinol (THC). The cancer-promoting effects of smoke are increased by nicotine, while they are reduced by THC. Toba…

Bust nets drug haul Friday, 30 December 2005 A man yesterday was arrested after a lightning raid at a house in West Dubbo uncovered a suspected large amount of cannabis. A convoy of unmarked police cars sped up Leavers Street about 12.30pm yesterday and split up to storm the house from front and back. A 22-year-old male was detained by Dubbo detectives and officers from the Dubbo Intelligence Response Team (DIRT) after he dashed out the back door and attempted to scale the back fence. Upon being detained and brought into the house the man then threw a bag containing a large amount of cannabis, as well as a significant amount of cash, at police. The police proceeded to…

Driving under the influence of cannabis almost doubles the risk of a fatal road crash, finds a study published online by the British Medical Journal. However its share in fatal crashes is significantly lower than those involving alcohol. The study took place in France and involved 10,748 drivers who were involved in fatal crashes from October 2001 to September 2003. All drivers underwent compulsory tests for drugs and alcohol. A total of 681 drivers tested positive for cannabis (7%) and 2096 for alcohol (21.4%), including 285 for both (2.9%). Men were more often involved in crashes than women, and were also more often positive for both cannabis and alcohol, as were th…

Russian Police to Weed out Drug Dealers Via Satellite Created: 11.10.2005 18:21 MSK (GMT +3), Updated: 18:21 MSK MosNews Russian police will use satellites to search for drug-containing plants in eastern areas of the country, the Interfax news agency reported on Tuesday. The measure is envisaged in the new Federal Task Program of Countering Illegal Drug Turnover covering the period from 2005 to 2008. The first experimental observation sectors will appear in 2006. They will cover the Far East, Siberia, and southern Russian districts as well as the border with Kazakhstan. In particular, special software for determining drug-containing plants will be developed.

They could of saved themselves alot of time and money if they had only asked OS members about the munchies :smoke ! Brain centre for the 'munchies' found Anna Salleh ABC Science Online Thursday, 20 October 2005 Cannabis is well known for increasing appetite. Now scientists know why (Image: iStockphoto) Scientists have found the part of the brain that makes cannabis users crave pizza, chocolate and chips. The discovery of the part of the brain that creates the 'munchies' could help to develop pharmaceuticals for anorexia or obesity, with minimal side-effects. Australian researcher Dr Paul Mallet of the University of New England in Armidale and team will…

What do you guys/gals think of his message. It seems too me that he could have made a comfortable life for himself through the seed industry if he had kept a lower profile i.e he didn't run for all those political posts. I understand that his aim was to legalise the mj industry through his posts but as we know the mainstream public wouldn't like the idea of some 'pot head' in any office or position. I see it as once his profile and influence got larger the LEO's had no option but to shut him down. Sure LEO's have better things to do than to raid a seed bank (rapes, assaults, theft etc) but the U.S government probably realised his 'influence' in the mj industry was a f…

SAN FRANCISCO -- Drug Enforcement Administration agents raided four Bay Area medical marijuana operations seizing 839 plants worth nearly $2 million, DEA Public Information Officer Casey McEnry said Wednesday. The daylong enforcement operation kicked off Tuesday around 7 a.m. with two simultaneous crackdowns at a San Francisco home and a Penngrove, Sonoma County, barn, McEnry said. During those raids, DEA agents confiscated about 339 pot plants, paperwork and a large amount of cash believed to be marijuana sales profits, McEnry said. A midday raid of San Francisco's HopeNet, run by previously searched and detained homeowners Steve and Cathy Smith, was postponed unti…

Biting into the science behind the "marijuana munchies," American researchers have uncovered clues to pot's effect on appetite. Their insights might also lead to drugs that could help increase -- or curb -- wayward appetites. The team of researchers at Columbia University, in New York City, didn't focus on the drug itself, but rather on the body's own version of pot's principal ingredient, tetrahydrocannabinol (THC). Naturally produced cannabinoid molecules, called endocannabinoids, are drawn to the hypothalamus -- a region of the brain that regulates hunger and other basic functions such as memory, perception and movement. Researchers have long known that once en…