How To Use Cannabis In A Sentence
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Additionally, those people who smoke cannabis are also risking all the attendant problems from the use of tobacco on top of the cannabis and this needs to be thought about too.
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He was addicted to a stronger strain of skunk cannabis but demand for it won't disappear if marijuana is legalised.
Times, Sunday Times
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The research will also reignite the debate over the use of cannabis for other medicinal purposes.
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The model here is the Dutch program of allowing users to smoke pot in licensed cannabis shops.
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He smoked cannabis on an industrial scale.
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Both tobacco and cannabis have a similar range of carcinogenic substances.
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A woman from Leyland Road was cautioned for possessing cannabis.
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Anticipating actual legal reform, the development of cannabis beverages, lozenges, skin patches or other forms of delivery could be encouraged to diminish pulmonary hazards.
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In particular, the absence of legal means for coffee shops to obtain cannabis has highlighted their association with organized crime.
Amsterdam's cannabis-selling coffee shops face crackdown
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If blind eyes are turned to some drug use, such as cannabis, on the (utterly mistaken) assumption that it is relatively unharmful, this destroys the consistency that is the absolute requirement to hold a moral and behavioural line.
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Thus, the perception of cannabis as a less dangerous drug is not mainly based on a lack of experience or drug education.
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An entrepreneur in Saskatoon has asked the city for permission to set up a ‘Dutch-style’ cannabis cafe where pot is freely toked.
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The next day, officers searched his home discovering three Ecstasy pills, seven wraps of cocaine and cannabis resin hidden in an aftershave box.
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A 16-year-old boy who carried out two knifepoint robberies after smoking cannabis has been named and shamed by a judge.
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In 1980 the Hebrew Institute of Jerusalem confirmed her claim that "kaneh bosm" is indeed cannabis.
Christiane Amanpour's "God's Warriors"
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The Dutch classify cannabis in all its forms as a soft drug and the smoking of it, even in public, is not prosecuted.
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The British government has now confused the issue even more, if such a thing is possible, by reclassifying cannabis from a Class B to a Class C substance, effectively decriminalising it.
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In practice the consumption of cannabis was decriminalized: a British compromise that continues to defy logic.
The Times Literary Supplement
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Hemp, or _Cannabis sativa_, from which we possibly derive the modern term canvas, was known to the ancients and used by them for rope and cordage and occasionally for cloth.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 46, August, 1861
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As comprehensively biocidal as petroleum and its enormous empire of petrochemical synthetics have been, Cannabis hemp offers exactly the opposite.
See No Hemp, Hear No Hemp, Speak No Hemp, Part II
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Staff have been caught taking cocaine, cannabis and amphetamines.
The Sun
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Rates of admittance for treatment for cannabis abuse are fairly high—three admittances per 1,000 users twice the rate in France—though the reason is unclear.
Week in Ideas: Christopher Shea
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I am on the side of legalising cannabis for a number of reasons, firstly to break the link between cannabis and hard drugs.
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A number of European countries have decriminalised possession of cannabis or have softened laws in the area.
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Meanwhile, in the largest ever survey of drug use among British clubbers, published in this month's edition of Mixmag, there were found to be large year-on-year falls in the number of people taking cannabis (by five percentage points), ketamine (10), ecstasy (five) and cocaine (20).
How the British fell out of love with drugs
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Anyone caught carrying up to 500 cannabis joints is likely to escape trafficking charges under Home Office proposals published yesterday.
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July 4: 300 kilos of cannabis resin and herbal cannabis worth up to ￡3m seized from a Northern Ireland-registered lorry in Dover.
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On searching the defendant's bedroom he found a container with enough cannabis resin to make 35 cigarettes.
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It will recommend scrapping prison sentences for possession of cannabis, and taking ecstasy off the list of Class A drugs.
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But smoking a cannabis joint is not the same as smoking a normal cigarette.
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It's become an adjunct to alcohol or cannabis use.
Times, Sunday Times
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He also has incorporated nicotine patches, cannabis and datura leaves, methamphetamine tablets and other prescription drugs and hallucinants.
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* These Jamaican/Somali young men and boys are all ripe cannon fodder for recruitment by the Turkish heroin barons and Vetnamese cannabis barons, who make most of the money from illegal drugs whilst sitting, usually untouchable, in the background.
British Racists Must Be Condemned
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Quite honestly, alcohol is a bigger curse than cannabis.
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I don't believe that cannabis should have a place in society as a legal recreational drug.
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Central to that argument was that cannabis had a different effect from hard drugs such as cocaine or heroin.
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One quarter of all male drivers under the age of 25 years tested positive for drugs, with being cannabis the most common drug.
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But what about other intoxicants such as cocaine, cannabis resin or even the so called harmless prescription drugs.
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Drugs, of course, have replaced alcohol as the unforgivable sin, and to be found smoking cannabis is considered every bit as serious a crime as downing vintage cognac.
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The rejection of cannabis preparations for the release of spasms experienced by patients with MS is on the grounds that its efficacy is not proven in trials.
Times, Sunday Times
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Today, we can reveal he is back in England, and will appear before Hull Crown Court next Friday, charged with being concerned in the production of cannabis, conspiracy to supply cannabis, and having an offensive weapon.
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The potential benefits of medicinal Cannabis for people living with cancer include antiemetic effects, appetite stimulation, pain relief, and improved sleep.
Russ Belville: Top Ten Cannabis Science Stories of 2011
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Hikers in the national forest who stumble into a clearing full of cannabis need to backtrack out very carefully; pot farms are often sown with mines.
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The lead researcher, Wendy Wismer of the University of Alberta, said it's no secret that healthy people who use cannabis get the "munchies" - what essentially amounts to a boost in their appetite.
The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
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The cannabis produced an initial beneficial effect for the patients in that the anergia, anhedonia, and low imaginative capacity caused by the antipsychotic were reversed.
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You may have heard it called marijuana, weed or hash but it is still cannabis, a natural drug that comes from a plant.
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The Liberal Democrats cower behind a feeble pledge to establish a Royal Commission on cannabis.
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Beyond the substantial fiscal costs of enforcing the prohibition of cannabis, the social costs of such policies are considerable.
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Cannabis and coca are cultivated illicitly on a vast scale for the manufacture of illegal drugs.
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Jack Straw, a man so unpleasant that even his son shuns his policies (although, the fact that he was dobbed in for cannabis possession by his own father may have something to do with it), was defending—probably ineptly and with a lie in every sentence—the government's Iraq policy, when Walter Wolfgang "heckled" him (if Jack thinks that's heckling, he should see a crap stand-up gig in Glasgow).
Archive 2005-09-01
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It is made from the leaves and flowering tops of the hemp plant, Cannabis sativa, which contains psychoactive substances called cannabinoids.
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He showed them some cannabis claiming he had confiscated it from others.
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Spice is meant to mimic tetrahydrocannabinol, the chemical found in cannabis.
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It has to be accepted that cannabis is widely used and is seen by many as relatively harmless.
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Doherty and McMahon denied conspiracy to supply cannabis resin.
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We were there only minutes when a drug dealer turned up and handed round cannabis.
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One issue that could continue to haunt the government is the downgrading of cannabis to a class-C drug.
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I would like to start with my personal experience with grass and Cannabis.
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Hartlepool magistrates yesterday ordered the forfeiture and destruction of the cannabis plants.
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They were sentenced at Cardiff crown court for conspiracy to supply drugs, including cannabis and amphetamines.
Times, Sunday Times
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As well as the heroin they found cannabis, cash and a number of weapons, including firearms, a sword and knives.
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Once inside, they sprayed graffiti on the walls and ceiling, and Mr MacDonald believes they smoked cannabis.
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Still others partake in the religious consumption of charas hand-made cannabis hashish and contemplate the cosmic nature and presence of God.
Beth Arnold: Letter From Paris: The Skulls of Yahel Chirinian
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Currently the sources for acquiring cannabis and hard drugs are one and the same - the illicit drug dealer.
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: The term medical marijuana took on dramatic new meaning in February, 2000 when researchers in Madrid announced they had destroyed incurable brain tumors in rats by injecting them with THC, the active ingredient in cannabis.
RVABlogs
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The product contains the cannabis extract tetrahydrocannabinol and cannabidiol.
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Cannabis remained the most frequently found drug, followed by tranquillisers such as valium, then opiates and cocaine.
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Cannabinoids have been found to have an antiemetic effect...but paradoxically chronic cannabis use results in hyperemesis.
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Drugs believed to be cannabis, ecstasy, LSD and dexamphetamine were also seized in the raid.
NEWS.com.au | Top Stories
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Last November, Ming sent cannabis joints to Dáil politicians through the post.
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There are no displays of hemp leaves or any other sign that cannabis is for sale, in line with strict advertising rules, though multiple portraits of Bob Marley hint at the core business.
Amsterdam's cannabis-selling coffee shops face crackdown
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Earlier this week, NCI removed reference to the "possible direct antitumor effect" of cannabis from its website.
Steph Sherer: Politics Ignoring Science: Federal Agency Recognizes Therapeutic Benefit of Medical Marijuana While 9-Year-Old Petition to Reclassify the Plant Gathers Dust
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They have also stated that cannabis is in fact less addictive, and less carcinogenic than the tobacco used to roll the joints.
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A major societal concern about cannabis intoxication is its potential to impair psychomotor performance in ways which may directly affect the well-being of non-users of cannabis.
Smoking And Driving? Nonsense. « Unambiguously Ambidextrous
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Dr Martin forward a private members' bill to decriminalize cannabis in some circumstances.
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He admitted unlawful possession of amphetamine and unlawful possession of cannabis.
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Marijuana, hashish, and hashish oil are obtained from the plant Cannabis sativa, which grows in tropical and temperate climates.
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Mr Williams said Luke had drunk brandy, cider and taken cannabis before he smashed a window in the house.
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Cannabis deposited four times as much tar on lungs as tobacco and could, if used regularly, cause cancer.
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And in recent times, the medical applications of this venerable herb known severally as grass, weed, pot, cannabis, dope, jay, skunk, kif, or ganja have been documented by reputable professionals.
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Drugs which concluded that cannabis was not as harmful as other class B drugs such as amphetamines.
Times, Sunday Times
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Anyone caught without an ID card and in possession of cannabis, would be in possession of an illegal drug, and pay the consequences.
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If I could disinvent alcohol and cannabis, I'd be tempted to do it.
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Police forces internationally that use roadside test devices do so to establish the presence of illegal drugs such as amphetamines and cannabis in drivers.
Times, Sunday Times
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By the time he was 21, he was downing two and a half bottles of rum a day, washed down by cannabis, cocaine, amphetamines and heroin.
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He has previous convictions for possessing drugs from cannabis to cocaine as well as gun offences.
The Sun
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National Institutes of Health and conducted by the University of California at Los Angeles, also reported that lifetime use of cannabis was not positively associated with cancers of the lung or aerodigestive tract, and further noted that certain moderate users of the drug experienced a reduced cancer risk compared to non-using controls.
Paul Armentano: If Pot Prevented Cancer You Would Have Read About It, Right?
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He had this big bag under the kitchen sink containing what was a form of that soft drug cannabis.
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By declassifying cannabis, it sent out the message that it is OK to take this drug.
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He has previous convictions for possessing drugs from cannabis to cocaine as well as gun offences.
The Sun
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Inside, dozens of stalls sold goods ranging from Palestinian olive oil to sloganeering tee shirts advertising everything from cannabis and Che Guevera to ‘No Sweat’ fair trade plimsolls.
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Another is said to have bought cocaine and cannabis from a local dealer.
The Sun
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He added that more information about the health risks of using cannabis also needed to be made available.
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Indians in the Mexican states of Veracruz, Hidalgo, and Puebla practice a communal curing ceremony with a plant called Santa Rosa, identified as cannabis sativa, which is considered both a plant and a sacred intercessor with the Virgin.
Cannabis Culture Magazine
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From what I've been told smoking cannabis is allegedly less harmful than cigarettes.
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Attitudes towards cannabis among the police, many politicians and the public are changing.
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Cannabis users experience the same health problems as tobacco smokers, including bronchitis, emphysema, bronchial asthma and lung cancer.
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In 1998 the UN General Assembly committed member countries to achieving a "drug-free world" and to "eliminating or significantly reducing" the production of opium, cocaine and cannabis by 2008.
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It was estimated that daily users of cannabis had rates of psychotic symptoms between 1.6 and 1.8 times higher than those of non-users.
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Increasing numbers of teenagers are using cannabis, according to a recent health survey.
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Therefore cannabis, unlike drugs, which are synthetically made by man or derived from plant sources - such as heroin and cocaine, do not belong in the same category.
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They're so straight, some of these people, that you can see how stressed they are when it comes to asking for cannabis.
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Speed and cannabis are available at what are commonly known as a tinny houses and we impact on the drug market by targeting those tinny houses.
New Zealand Herald - Top Stories
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The Police Foundation Report by the redoubtable Lady Runciman provided the intellectual credibility for declassifying cannabis.
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The Northern Ireland drug chief, Jo Daykin, yesterday said cannabis use there could spiral following the move.
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Police raiding the riverboat party had found cocaine, ecstacy tablets, amphetamines and cannabis resin.
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She was convicted of money laundering and conspiracy to supply amphetamines, cocaine and cannabis.
Times, Sunday Times
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Over the last hundred years, suffragettes, hunger marchers, miners, pro-fox hunters and campaigners against police brutality, the poll tax, fuel tax and the prohibition of cannabis have all congregated in Hyde Park.
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She subsequently pleaded guilty to and he was found guilty of possession of cannabis resin with intent to supply.
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They seized some cannabis bush and cannabis resin from a caravan in the back garden and the couple were arrested, but a thorough search of the house revealed no further drugs.
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But he notes that medical cannabis growers around the state continue to be prosecuted by local, state, and federal authorities.
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It should be legitimate to use cannabis for medical purposes.
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He has previous convictions for possessing drugs from cannabis to cocaine as well as gun offences.
The Sun
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Awareness of the hallucinogenic properties of bhang, the resin from the Indian-grown variety of cannabis, certainly existed in Europe by the early seventeenth century, thanks to the adventurousness of colonial travellers.
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He claimed another criminal who ran a cannabis farm with Taylor was behind the killing, but that detectives manipulated evidence to frame him.
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In a radical move, the country has decriminalised the use of not just cannabis, but all illegal drugs, including heroin.
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Most people acknowledge the big difference between the dangers of soft drugs such as cannabis and the likes of heroine and cocaine.
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This was one of the largest skunk cannabis factories ever discovered in mainland UK.
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Some cannabis users smoke sativa during the day and indica at night.
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She denied possessing and trafficking drugs including heroin, cannabis and amphetamines.
The Sun
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Yet a real villain walks free with a suspended sentence over a huge cannabis stash and is let off over the illegal gun.
The Sun
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Staff have been caught taking cocaine, cannabis and amphetamines.
The Sun
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Cannabis is a soft drug, softer than tobacco which 11- to 12-year-olds are getting hold of.
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Cannabis für die Staatskasse Die kalifornische Initiative «Tax Cannabis 2010» strebt per Gesetz «die Regulierung, ...
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Perhaps by making cannabis legal our society would imply progressive sanction to the use of any mood-altering drug.
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Heroin, amphetamine, cocaine and cannabis were hidden in large canisters of glue.
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In 2010 he pleaded guilty to dealing crack cocaine and cannabis.
Times, Sunday Times
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In a separate incident, police uncovered what they described as a cannabis factory at a building on the Carnpark Road in Katesbridge, Co Down.
Belfasttelegraph.co.uk - Frontpage RSS Feed
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Previous reviews of long-term cannabis smoking have noted similar respiratory complications, though an association between cannabis use and lung and/or upper aerodigestive tract (UAT) cancers has not been found.
AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed
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They found a small quantity of cannabis in a bedroom before discovering £8,000, crack cocaine, the shotgun and a loaded pistol in the cellar.
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Cannabis has been used for medicinal purposes since antiquity.
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Actually there is a lot of evidence for herbal remedies that work - including St John’s wort, milk thistle, cannabis, shark’s cartilage which is known as chondroitin and included with glucosamine for help with joint pain, dandelion, oh lord there are too many to document here.
F.D.A. Takes Aim at Herbal Cancer ‘Cures’ - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com
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Fairweather suggests this may point towards incoming prisoners changing the type of drugs they use from cannabis, which leaves traces in the body for a long time, to heroin, which is quickly flushed from the body.
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Philip, 46, skippered a yacht carrying 3.7 tonnes of cannabis - worth 11 million - from North Africa to Cornwall.
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Secondly, the press this week hailed cannabis as a wonder drug and a miracle cure.
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In drawers under the divan bed were four large bags of herbal cannabis and five smaller bags.
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First of all, for medical purposes, Cannabis has uses.
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Again, the proximity of Morocco, where cannabis is a traditional product, facilitated the supply of hashish and marijuana for the Spanish market.
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Another lesser-known contradiction of federal cannabis policies has to do with the THC tetrahydrocannabinol pill Marinol.
Steph Sherer: Politics Ignoring Science: Federal Agency Recognizes Therapeutic Benefit of Medical Marijuana While 9-Year-Old Petition to Reclassify the Plant Gathers Dust
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He was using cannabis, LSD, speed and magic mushrooms on a regular basis.
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What we must realise though is that cannabis, if legalised, would not have to be a social drug but could be legalised for medicinal purposes only.
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Molecular studies have shown that tetrahydrocannabinol, the active component of cannabis, increases release of dopamine in the mesolimbic pathway.
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The term cannabinoid refers to chemicals found exclusively in these cannabis plants.
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In one culture a shaman uses tobacco, sage or cannabis, in others copal, frankincense, sandalwood, cedar, juniper or pine.
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During the raids police seized personal belongings, documents, drugs paraphernalia, a quantity of crack cocaine and a small amount of cannabis.
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While the situation looks positive for cannabis activists, there are detractors.
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The popular view is that cannabis is not a drug of dependence because it does not have a clearly defined withdrawal syndrome.
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And they happily spent millions on promoting the idea that cannabis was an extremely dangerous, addictive narcotic, that would kill, or drive users insane.
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Cannabis use in young people remains a controversial area, and absence of good data has handicapped the development of rational public health policies.
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This will remove control of the cannabis industry from criminal degenerates - but it will create serious public health issues that the government had better be ready to deal with.
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Nevertheless, Cannabis is not the only drug trafficked or abused in Zambia.
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Mr. Abad also bought a carcass of an old Volkswagen microbus — the stereotypical stoner vehicle — to use in marketing promotions, and hired an artist to craft a logo depicting a vehicle similar to the bus with a cannabis leaf prominently displayed on the front.
Pot-Delivery Man Hits Speed Bumps
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Suppose you convinced anti-medical-marijuana people that cannabis is indeed the only effective treatment for many patients, that they would suffer horribly without it, and that legalizing it for those patients would not lead to more illegal use by teenagers.
How Would the World Change If Everyone Shared Your Factual Beliefs?, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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The one incontrovertible fact about cannabis is it remains, for the moment, illegal.
Times, Sunday Times
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There is no difference between men and women on lifetime prevalence of cannabis, cocaine, amphetamines, opiates, or sedatives.
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Played a cannabis dealer in this low-budget monster movie.
Times, Sunday Times
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Cannabis consumption has increased sharply.
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For the footsoldiers of such opposition are usually the same poor peons whose livelihood derives from cultivating cannabis or coca.
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Another is said to have bought cocaine and cannabis from a local dealer.
The Sun
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They found nine cannabis plants and drugs gear in his cellar.
The Sun
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Without question, cannabis should be legalized, taxed, and regulated in this country (seeing as how that makes up majority of drugs flowing into this country from the southland).
Think Progress » ThinkFast: March 15, 2010
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The minister confessed to having experimented with cannabis in her youth.
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And in recent times, the medical applications of this venerable herb known severally as grass, weed, pot, cannabis, dope, jay, skunk, kif, or ganja have been documented by reputable professionals.
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Much of the controversy surrounding the medicinal use of cannabis has centred on fears that it would be used solely for its mood-altering effects.
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The drugs confiscated included heroin, cannabis resin and cocaine.
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He had pleaded guilty to possessing cannabis and cocaine.
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Police found cocaine and cannabis when they stopped a man in the street, a court has heard.
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Secondly, do symptoms of depression and anxiety in adolescence predict cannabis use in young adults?
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He is accused of having heroin, crack cocaine, cannabis resin and cannabis.
Times, Sunday Times
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But Shadow Home Secretary Ann Widdecombe said legalising cannabis would lead drug barons to push even more hard drugs.
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That party will continue to push for a softening of the law around cannabis.
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In deference to her strong views and independence, Ames was cremated and her ashes were scattered with a few cannabis seeds.
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The categories continue to operate in this hierarchical fashion until we reach the sixth and final class: cannabis.
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The revenue record shows that the entire Malana village owns 175 hectares of land, but the cannabis is cultivated in more than 15,000 bighas that produce 2.5 kg charas per bigha every year, reveal the officials.
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The 10-minute test can detect cannabis up to 14 days after it is taken, but only three to five days after cocaine, amphetamines or opiates are used.
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Cannabis is an assassin of referentiality inducing a BUTTERFLY EFFECT in THOUGHT," says Darwin's Pharmacy author Rich Doyle.
Jason Silva: On Creativity, Marijuana and "a Butterfly Effect in Thought"
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Cannabis smoke is far more acrid than tobacco and causes more damage to the lining of the airways.
Times, Sunday Times
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A small sample of hair is sent for testing to a lab, where it is screened for traces of a range of drugs, including cannabis and heroin.
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Heroin and cannabis resin with an estimated street value of £120,000 was seized by the Garda National Drugs Unit as part of Operation Jumbo.
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I started off by smoking cannabis with friends on a recreational basis.
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Of the 26 people arrested, 17 were cautioned for having cannabis.
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I can confirm a 17-year-old from Great Harwood was cautioned for possession of a reefer containing cannabis.
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To what extent does cannabis use interfere with skilled activities such as driving a motor vehicle or operating machinery?
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It is believed by some people that cannabis acts as a bridge from soft drugs to hard drugs, which are dangerous.
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Cannabis use was levelling off and even beginning to go down.
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Cunningly, Mr. Wildes-who admits he had no idea what cannabis or hashish were during that first conversation over a cup of "tay" in the Lennon/Ono kitchen-suggested that cannabis resin might not be written into the law that kept convicted drug possessors out of the country.
The 60-Minute Critics
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He had few friends and smoked joint after joint of strong skunk cannabis alone in his bedroom.
The Sun
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Once cannabis is legalised, the dealers will be taken out of the equation and the risk of them pushing harder drugs and the availability of harder drugs to the cannabis smoker is eliminated.
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The judge said that police found 35.2g cannabis, evidence of his attempts at drug horticulture and a quantity of money when they raided his home.
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Indeed the first brain-derived substance found to bind to our cannabis receptors was christened "anandamide", a derivative of the Sanskrit word for internal high may thus serve as an innocent recreational pastime in an uncaring world.
Sydney Indymedia - Comments
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Thus published data do not support the characterisation of cannabis as a risk factor for mortality.
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It also seems that the cannabis market was partially dissociated from the heroin and cocaine markets, as consumers could now buy hashish without contacting heroin or cocaine sellers.
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Cannabis smoke is far more acrid than tobacco and causes more damage to the lining of the airways.
Times, Sunday Times
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The following morning he said he rolled several cannabis cigarettes to smoke during the day.
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It should be legitimate to use cannabis for medical purposes.
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Here a man was sent to jail for possessing enough cannabis to make 2 joints.
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Cannabis does not have to be smoked; one can cook with it and use it in various other ways.
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The American Psychological Association may include cannabis withdrawal By TODD NEALE Aug. 23, 2009 Injectable diacetylmorphine, the active ingredient in, was shown to be an effective alternative to oral methadone in that had not responded to previous treatment.
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One kept confusing cannabis and cocaine and kept mixing up which youngsters were involved.
Taking Drugs Seriously
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Marijuana or marihuana is a drug obtained from the flowering tops, stems, and leaves of the hemp plant (cannabis sativa).
