and those who had used ever alcohol marijuana or other illicit substances were more likely to use hookah.
It could happen with new plant-breeding toolsince the first plant genome sequence was obtained for the plant Arabidopsis in 2000 scientists have sequenced gene everything from cannabis to castor bean.
#Regulating legal marijuana could be guided by lessons from alcohol, tobacco, study saysas U s. policymakers consider ways to ease prohibitions on marijuana the public health approaches used to regulate alcohol
and tobacco over the past century may provide valuable lessons according to new RAND Corporation research.
Recent ballot initiatives that legalized marijuana in Colorado and Washington for recreational uses are unprecedented. The move raises important questions about how to best allow the production sales
and the use of marijuana while also working to reduce any related social ills. A new study published online by the American Journal of Public health outlines how regulations on alcohol
and tobacco may provide guidance to policymakers concerned about the public health consequences of legalizing marijuana.
Among the issues outlined in the study are how to reduce youth access to marijuana how to minimize drugged driving how to curb dependence
and addiction how to restrict contaminants in marijuana products and how to discourage the dual use of marijuana and alcohol particularly in public settings.
The lessons from the many decades of regulating alcohol and tobacco should offer some guidance to policymakers who are contemplating alternatives to marijuana prohibition
and are interested in taking a public health approach said Beau Kilmer co-director of the RAND Drug Policy Research center
when considering less-restrictive marijuana laws. Those questions include: Should vertical integration be allowed or should there be separate licenses for growing processing and selling marijuana?
What rules are needed to make sure a marijuana product is safe? Should marijuana be sold in convenience stories or only in specialized venues?
Should taxes be assessed per unit of weight as a percent of the price or on some other basis such as the amount of psychoactive ingredients in marijuana?
Based on the national experience with alcohol and tobacco it seems prudent from a public health perspective to open up the marijuana market slowly with tight controls to test the waters
and prevent commercialization too soon while still making it available to responsible adults said Rosalie Liccardo Pacula co-director of the RAND Drug Policy Research center
and a co-author of the paper. Of course perspectives other than public health objectives might motivate policymakers to adopt different or fewer regulations.
and tobacco that also may be appropriate for regulation of marijuana. Those include keeping prices artificially high to curb use adopting a state-run monopoly on sales
or vaporizer pens for individuals who vaporize other substances such as herbs marijuana marijuana oils and hashish waxes.
sustainability meet on the robotic marijuana farm Invention may lead to greener power plants When it comes to packaging,
Tech, sustainability meet on the robotic marijuana farmmr. Greenthumb's latest gardening tool may just be...
is a hi-tech mobile trailer used for cultivating medicinal marijuana. The aptly-named Big Bud is a fully functional weed farm that features programmable lights,
But he did he took some time out of his hectic schedule to speak to this correspondent about dirt-free farming, wasteful agricultural practices and, of course, cannabis.
So about this trailer designed to grow marijuana, where did the idea come from? Oddly enough, it's something that's been done for about 30 years.
Old school marijuana growers started out planting them in shipping containers and buried the crops in the ground before they eventually switched to using trailers.
so what we did was just take it to the next level by implementing hydroponic technology and developing it into a full line of trailers for not only the medical marijuana community,
On the non-marijuana agricultural side, there's a need too. California, for example, every year loses some of it's agricultural land to dust bowling
Currently, much of energy intensive light used to grow cannabis is wasted instead of being absorbed since plants can only photosynthesize so much of it.
With more and more states allowing the use of medical marijuana, what I'm seeing is broader acceptance of it.
I mean think of the actual patient that's using medicinal marijuana; it's probably a cancer
Giving them the marijuana from a sterilized environment like our trailers is a huge benefit to this industry.
heroin or THC (the active ingredient in marijuana) is because those particular substances are banned as dangerous drugs.
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Marijuana sauceyou're not in Indiana. Amsterdam's Manneken Pis chip shop, named after Brussels'famous pissing boy statue,
So it comes as no surprise that one of the latest gastronomical innovations-marijuana sauce-comes from Indianapolis.
At the Manneken Pis chip shop, owner Albert van Beek has created a mayo spread for his chips (what red-blooded Americans call french fries) that tastes like cannabis,
but contains no THC, inspired by the marijuana aroma from the adjacent coffee shop. It's just about the taste,
whether the dope dip will catch on and sweep across the globe. Â But it does leave you wondering what the Dutch might serve up next.
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