Cannabis

Cannabis (39)
Illicit drug (11)
Narcotic (19)

Synopsis: Pharma: Illicit drugs: Cannabis:


futurity_medicine 00401.txt

#Marijuana may change sperm shape in young men Using cannabis appears to affect the size and shape of spermnd perhaps put young men fertility at riskccording to a new study.

to have used cannabis in the three month period prior to ejaculation. ur knowledge of factors that influence sperm size

although our data suggests that cannabis users might be advised to stop using the drug if they are planning to try


impactlab_2014 00571.txt

The study ould be highly important for understanding how cannabis exerts its behavioral effects, Patel said.


popsci_2013 02168.txt

Good to see the folks over at Popsci are focusing on Cannabis and the many benefits of this wonder plant.

overdoses from cannabis and all of the psychedelics COMBINED (LSD mescaline etc) are practically zero and need to be lumped in with'overdose by assault'(basically murder by poisoning)

Cannabis being lumped into the same category as LSD and overdose by assault. What is represented not effectively conspicuously seemingly by design are drugs that cause zero deaths.

If all these other deaths were shown the death count for alcohol would be much much greater. 2. Overdose deaths from cannabis LSD magic mushrooms


R_techcrunch.com 2015 00002015.txt

Investors are even jonesing for cannabis startups; Snoop Dogg announced a $25 million fund, and Founders Fund invested in Privateer Holdings$75 million fund,


R_www.dailymail.co.uk_sciencetech 2015 04339.txt.txt

#Scientists brew cannabis chemical THC for better drugs for cancer sufferers An active ingredient typically found in cannabis has been engineered genetically in the lab for the first time.

Scientists said the real challenge is to devise a method that works better than cannabis plants themselves.

easier way to create this cannabis component from scratch. Ordinarily, the chemicals are stripped from the plants themselves,

Although a significant breakthrough, this still means that cannabis plants are by far the best producer of the psychoactive molecule.'

Scientists said the real challenge is to devise a method that works better than cannabis plants themselves.

easier way to create this cannabis component from scratch, Ordinarily, the chemicals are stripped from the plants themselves,


R_www.forbes.com_technology 2015 00071.txt

#Medical marijuana Sparks New Technology The emerging cannabis industry has created not only thousands of new jobs, it has also given birth to a new technology niche.

The low hanging fruit was the copy cat web design for internet cannabis sites based on already popular traditional internet sites.

and Weedmaps is the rouponof cannabis with its daily deals. Weedhire is the equivalent of Monster. com for its marijuana jobs.

government agencies have also been challenged with meeting the specific requirements of complicated cannabis legislation. Since each state is unique in its regulations,

It was one of only a handful of American companies at the World Cannabis Conference in Spain.

NIC targets the government as its client in the cannabis space. It specializes in helping the government agencies tasked with creating a marijuana department.

Product testing is another cannabis hot button issue. In the early months of retail marijuana in Colorado, customers became confused as to how much THC was in the product they bought.

Amercanex is creating a cannabis commodity exchange with the plan for a futures market. Not unlike the other commodities exchange, this platform will allow cannabis farmers to lock in prices for their crops

and for buyers to secure their inventory. Steve Janjic, CEO of Amercanex said his company is looking ahead to

He said the problem with the cannabis tech companies is a lack of access to institutional money.

Banking is another problem for the cannabis industry causing businesses to become very creative in order to process transactions.

if Bank of america decides cannabis won get them in trouble with the Feds. In the meantime these new companies aren letting any grass grow beneath their fee t


R_www.sciencealert.com 2015 01191.txt.txt

Cannabis is hard to beat.""The idea instead is to offer up an alternative for places such as Europe,


R_www.sciencedaily.com 2015 13933.txt.txt

since she published her first scientific article--"Cannabis and Chromosomes,"examining the impact of marijuana on embryonic cells--in The Lancet in 1969,


www.dailymail.co.uk_sciencetech 2015 02598.txt.txt

#Medical cannabis DOESN'T ease pain, nausea, vomiting, sleep disorders or Tourette's By Lizzie Parry for Mailonline Published:

14:51 GMT, 24 june 2015 There is very little evidence to suggest cannabis can help ease the symptoms of a raft of illnesses,

Medicinal cannabis has been legalised in 23 US states as a therapy to treat disease or alleviate symptoms,

500 volunteers, found the evidence supporting the use of medical cannabis is weak. It found moderate-quality evidence to support the use of cannabinoids-chemical compounds that are the active principles in marijuana-for the treatment of chronic pain.

and her team evaluated the evidence for benefits and adverse events, related to medicinal cannabis use.

In addition, Dr Whiting and her team found weak evidence to support the claim that medicinal cannabis has no effect on psychosis,

'Further studies evaluating cannabis itself are required also because there is very little evidence on the effects and adverse effects of cannabis.'

'In an editorial linked to the study, Dr Deepak Cyril and Dr Mohini Ranganathan, of Yale university, said:'


www.sciencealert.com 2015 00675.txt.txt

The research focussed on the main psychoactive ingredient in cannabis, known as THC (tetrahydrocannabinol), which is not only responsible for the high associated with the drug-plus hallucinations, delusions, memory loss,


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