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#Colorado Struggles to Create First Pot Regulations Samples of marijuana are tested in an oven at Full Spectrum Laboratories in Denver.

Colorado is working toward becoming the first state to regulate production of medical marijuana. Regulators say pot consumers deserve to know what theyre smoking,

when they buy marijuana, said Buckie Minor of Full Spectrum Laboratories in Denver, which currently does voluntary marijuana analysis for about 100 growers and dispensaries.

Minor and others in the pot business say industry standards are needed. But Colorado officials are having a tough time writing regulations for a product thats never been scrutinized

New mexico requires marijuana products to be labeled by strain and potency, and is planning by the end of the year to allow health inspectors to review samples.

But currently none of the 14 states that allow medical marijuana regulate how its grown. oetheres no experience with this,

a Denver physician heading up Colorados effort to write labeling and safety regulations for medical marijuana.

and inspection standard for marijuana sold commercially, under provisions of a new state law. But its a daunting task.

-Should marijuana sellers be able to attach medical claims to their products? What if no research exists to back up a claim that a certain strain of pot is best for,

-What about chemicals, such as pesticides or fertilizers, used on marijuana plants? Should those be limited, as they are for food and tobacco?

Can they be tapped to inspect marijuana grows? -What happens if someone gets sick from medical marijuana?

Should growing operations have guidelines to limit contamination, such as mildew and mold? oegiven the lack of USDA or other oversight of this agricultural industry, were at square one,

The regulations will also likely include the nations first guidelines for the safe production of hashish

which is concentrated marijuana. Hash production can be a fire risk because its often prepared using butane,

and sometimes hash is made using plastics that can leave unsafe carcinogens as residue. Matt Cook, who leads the Department of Revenue committee considering the new regulations,

conceded that state regulators face a challenge overseeing the state pot supply. oehow do I enforce this?

But the so-called oeganjapreneuers working in the marijuana business say that regulation and safety standards are needed. oepatients are interested definitely to get as much information as they can about what theyre ingesting,

both have rates similar to non-marijuana illicit drug use among teens, said pediatrician Matthew Davis, director of the University of Michigan C. S. Mott Childrens Hospital National Poll on Childrens Health.

If marijuana use is included, teen drug use is a substantially more widespread issue than the other two. oehealth risks from all three are quite insidious, for the most part with the consequences felt many years down the road,

Anyone who thinks it would be easy to get rich selling marijuana in a state where its legal should spend an hour with Ravi Respeto, manager of the Farmacy, an upscale dispensary here that offers Strawberry Haze, Hawaiian Skunk and other strains

Special July 12th live webcast to discuss emerging opportunities in marijuana industry. She will harsh your mellow. oeno M. B. A. program could have prepared me for this experience,

Officials there had decided that any marijuana-tinged consumables had to be produced in a kitchen in the city. oeyoud never see a law that says,

and taxing a for-profit marijuana Trade in California, medical marijuana dispensary owners work in nonprofit collectives,

but the cannabis pioneers of Colorado are free to pocket as much as they can as long as they stay within the rules.

where a constitutional amendment legalizing medical marijuana was passed in 2000, hundreds of dispensaries popped up

the most popular of eight conditions that can be treated legally with the once-demonized weed.

More than 80,000 people here now have medical marijuana certificates, which are essentially prescriptions, and for months new enrollees have signed up at a rate of roughly 1, 000 a day.

as well as the District of columbia, that have medical marijuana laws. That is particularly the case in Rhode island, New jersey, the District of columbia and Maine,

Americans spend roughly $25 billion a year on marijuana, according to the Harvard economist Jeffrey Miron

A spokesman for the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws says hedge fund investors

if marijuana will give men breasts, says Allen st. Pierre, the executive director of NORML. oenow, the calls are from angel investors

what about doctors, some of whom have turned medical marijuana consultations into a highly lucrative specialty?

During a recent visit, it was clear that for every marijuana seller and physician who thinks that the rules are too strict,

co-owner of the Greenest Green and formerly a medical marijuana seller in Los angeles. oewe went into one and saw like 30 kids in the waiting room, and

Your first foray into a medical marijuana center is slightly disorienting, like breathing underwater during your maiden scuba dive,

says Michael Bellingham, owner of the Boulder Medical Marijuana Dispensary, who is holding a jar of Jack the Ripper,

Many have a long history with marijuana, and they remain lets just run with it rue to share their names.

marijuana remains a oeschedule I Controlled Substance, alongside heroin and L. S d. Most owners, though, were happy to show off their wares at retail,

The marijuana merchants in Colorado, like trailblazers in any business, had to make a lot of basic decisions

What should a for-profit medical marijuana dispensary look like, anyway? State law says that the cannabis has to be in oelimited access areas,

but as far as interior decorating mandates go, thats it. So theres variety. The Greenest Green looks like a bar in Amsterdam,

with options that included a $5 hit of hash oil from an elaborate bonglike device called a skillet.

as he puts it with a note of pride and defiance, hes a oethree-time convicted felon for possession of marijuana with intent to sell.

More than a few in the marijuana business say they believe they are early entrants in a market that could be huge

which every person with a medical marijuana certificate can assign to a seller of choice.

allow a dispensary to sell the marijuana of six plants, though the pot can be sold to anyone with a certificate.

A pound of marijuana can be sold at retail for somewhere between $5, 500 and $7, 500.

if you dont grow your own marijuana. But youll get 70 to 80 percent margins

to become a medical marijuana dispensary franchise and do for Super Silver Haze what Rite aid did for pills.

All dispensary workers sound utterly sincere about the health benefits of marijuana, and each has a story about an elderly man

Mr. Aten first needed to pass a medical exam certifying that marijuana is appropriate medicine for him.

which on this day has a TV playing an instructional video on making your own hash. oetoday,

Then he decided to enter medical marijuana full time, and he opened this place, which technically isnt a doctors office,

if they use medical marijuana? Yes to the first question, no to the second those are the answers about 90 percent of the time,

Like the Farmacy, Dr. Boland hopes to take his medical marijuana business national, opening Relaxed Clarity offices in other states.

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Legalized Marijuana Movement Tracking very similarly to the end of prohibition in 1929, the legalization of recreational marijuana in Colorado and Washington is paving the way for other states

and counties to follow suit. How long before the marijuana is as prevalent as alcohol in nightclubs around the U s. and around the world?

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Vicious dog owners were arrested engaged in physical fights and used marijuana significantly more than other dog owners.

and then government representatives provided comments before both groups came together in Batumi to hash out the final report.

According to a study published in October in the journal Epidemiologic Reviews marijuana use increases the risk of car crashes.

Illegal marijuana gardens hacked into public lands also expose wildlife to fertilizers and toxic rat poison other studies have shown.

The marijuana cultivators make trail systems to go in and put toxicants at every clearing said Mourad Gabriel a University of California Davis wildlife disease ecologist who studies the effects of rodenticides on rare species. A lot of predators will use any type of trail system

In November Vanguardia (Mexico) reported that the Knights Templar have expanded from trafficking in cocaine marijuana

and those who used alcohol marijuana or other illicit substances were more likely to use hookah.

Innovation Helps Cannabis Industry Flourish DENVER The legalization of recreational marijuana sales in Colorado is turning an underground industry into a big business and ushering in innovations in everything from genetics to growing methods.

The burgeoning cannabis industry is coming out of illegal basement grow rooms and into sprawling warehouses befitting ravenous consumer demand.

Every single day someone is reinventing the wheel so to speak said Scott Reach a cannabis breeder and owner of the Colorado-based seed company Rare Dankness.

The History of 8 Hallucinogens The emergence of legal weed Medicinal use of marijuana has been legal under Colorado state law

since 2000 when voters approved an amendment to the state constitution allowing cannabis possession and use with a doctor's order.

In 2012 state voters again loosened the prohibition on marijuana with Amendment 64 which allows personal use of marijuana for adults age 21 and older.

Smoking or other methods of consuming marijuana in public are allowed not under the law. Marijuana is still illegal under federal law

which makes banking and investments a challenge for ganjapreneurs in Colorado. Nevertheless the money and interest are flowing in.

In Denver alone 4. 5 million square feet (41800 square meters) of warehouse space is devoted to growing pot said Kayvan Khalatbari cofounder of Denver Relief Consulting a medical

marijuana center. All those indoor growing facilities need lighting. Denver Relief just hired a former NASA scientist Neil Yorio who worked on lighting technology for long-duration space missions to develop new options for marijuana growers.

The company has been experimenting with LED lighting Khalatbari told Live Science. Traditional LED lights lack the ultraviolet rays plants need to thrive he said

Legal innovation Hice expects the innovation surrounding marijuana to translate to other cash crops given the interest in urban indoor growing.

Meanwhile other researchers are digging into the cannabis genome. Canadian researchers mapped the genome of the common strain Cannabis sativa in 2011.

Now the Cannabis Genomic Research Initiative led by ecologist Nolan Kane of the University of Colorado at Boulder seeks to sample DNA from multiple cannabis species. Pot's future This genetic innovation has some cannabis users

and regulation of marijuana concentrates which extract the active ingredients of the plant with solvents such as butane.

or tetrahydrocannabinol the mind-altering compound in marijuana Khalatbari said. Concentrates can have levels of 85 percent to 95 percent THC.

In multiple cases at home wannabe chemists have blown up their homes trying to extract cannabis concentrates themselves.

Developers are coming up with pot patches marijuana e-cigarettes oral strips tinctures and topical creams Khalatbari said.

#Marijuana vs. Alcohol: Which Is Really Worse for Your Health? The question of whether alcohol or marijuana is worse for health is being debated once again this time sparked by comments that President Barack Obama made in a recent interview with The New yorker magazine.

As has been documented well I smoked pot as a kid and I view it as a bad habit

while for a number of reasons those associated with marijuana use are harder to come by.

And research into marijuana's health effects is still in its infancy compared with the rigorous studies looking at alcohol and human health.

That isn't going to happen with marijuana said Ruben Baler a health scientist at the National Institute on Drug abuse.

The impact of marijuana use is much subtler. Of course subtle effects don't equate with no danger as is the case with smoking cigarettes

which is linked with 440000 deaths per year in the U s.)Marijuana affects the cardiovascular system increasing heart rate

Alcohol is more likely than marijuana to interact with other drugs. The way that alcohol is metabolized

Because marijuana can impair coordination and balance there is the risk of hurting oneself particularly if someone drives

These are two areas where people using marijuana could hurt themselves for the short and long term.

Unlike alcohol Baler said the effects of chronic marijuana use are established not as well. Animal studies have indicated some possible impact on reproduction.

Additionally there is evidence marijuana can worsen psychiatric issues for people who are predisposed to them or bring them on at a younger age.

But while early studies showed some evidence linking marijuana to lung cancer subsequent studies have debunked that association.

Baler said it's unclear why marijuana smoke does not have the same result as tobacco smoke on the lungs

but perhaps some beneficial compounds in the marijuana smoke cancel out the ill effects or perhaps the other health habits of marijuana smokers are different from those of cigarette smokers.

But cigarette smoking plays a complicated role in studying the impact of marijuana smoke Baler said.

Marijuana smokers tend to smoke much less than cigarette smokers as some may smoke one joint a few times a week.

It's a very tough epidemiological nut to break Baler said. Additionally researchers looking to study long-term marijuana use have had difficulty in finding people who regularly smoke marijuana

but don t also smoke tobacco cigarettes. And the illegality of marijuana has limited also research in this field.

For marijuana much of the concern is with young people who use the drug because the drug interferes with the development of the brain

while it is still maturing Baler said. 10 Facts Every Parent Should Know About Their Teen's Brain Smoking marijuana interferes with connections being made in the brain at a time

when the brain should be at a clear state of mind and accumulating memory and data and good experiences that should be laying out the foundation for the future Baler said.

while others may use marijuana only on weekends the health effects become difficult to generalize.

As for marijuana whose legalization for medical uses has been a matter of strong public policy debate for years there is ample evidence that beneficial compounds can be found in the plant.

Researchers are working around the clock to try to identify the ingredients in marijuana that have potential to benefit human health Baler said.

#and claiming smoking marijuana can be good for your health and have medical uses Baler said.

The year 2014 has brought with it the first legal sales of marijuana to people who aren't using the drug for medical reasons in the United states since the 1930s as voters in Colorado and Washington state brought about this policy change.

and teen use in the wake of the new laws will lead to a better understanding of marijuana's public health effects.

whether alcohol or marijuana is worse for health is being debated once again this time sparked by comments that President Barack Obama made in a recent interview with The New yorker magazine.</

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These receptors were originally found to be sensitive to the most important psychoactive molecule in cannabis Î-THC.

In particular at an archaeological site near Bucharest Romania scientists found charred Cannabis seeds from plants in some tombs.

The main psychoactive compound of marijuana is tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) which is most abundant in the female plants (Cannabis plants are typically

either male or female with male plants producing pollen that pollinates the seed-producing flowers of the female plant).

) Cannabis commerce The world s first legal market for recreational marijuana opened in Colorado on 1 Â January.

Colorado is one of only two US states to have approved nonmedicinal use of marijuana by adults (see go. nature. com/rtr3ou.

Last month, Uruguay became the first country to approve a national market for legal marijuana,

Only 6 Percent Of Marijuana Research Considers Medical Benefits By Shaunacy Ferro Posted on 8. 12.2013 46 Comments 8. 12.2013 at 04:

48pm-Comment by drchuck1 If people smoked weed instead of drinking; many many lives would be saved.

seaniumly Since many users and what appears to be Popsci ok with the use of marijuana with possible (hype) reasons of it being healthy just get you animal bug really high off marijuana (mellow) prior to killing it

and both enjoy the benefits of eating meat bug and the health aspects (hype) of the marijuana in the animal.

And while cocaine heroin and alcohol are all responsible for enough deaths to warrant their own stripes on the chart many popular illegal drugs including marijuana

when its got Marijuana lumped in with all of the truly dangerous drugs. MARIJUANA has caused NEVER a single case of overdose in all of human history.

This information you are posting is incorrect. Maybe you should list Tobacco at the top...

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)

Best Answer-Chosen by Voters Nope it is not possible to overdose on marijuana. Theoretically one could overdose on it

/AR2006052501729 PF. htmlthere have been recorded no deaths due to marijuana use alone either. Obviously smoking it will produce some negative effects

This is insulting that Marijuana is lumped in there at all. It has been proven in at least a half a dozen studies (look them up for yourself) that it's impossible to overdose on marijuana we would have to smoke a few thousand joints in 5 mins and

I don't see it getting passed 50 and that is smoking as fast as possible. So the face that it's lumped in with LSD Opium

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

#Young cannabis-smokers aware of the health risks91 percent of on average 20-year-old Swiss men drink alcohol almost half of whom drink six beverages or more in a row and are thus at-risk consumers

whom are at-risk consumers--they smoke at least once a day. 36 percent of young adults smoke cannabis

whether these young Swiss men read up on addictive substances such as alcohol tobacco cannabis or other drugs and are aware

along with 38 percent of at-risk consumers of cannabis. Moreover at-risk consumers of alcohol or tobacco seek information two and a half times more frequently than abstainers.

Cannabis-consumers research addictive substances four times more frequently and the at-risk consumers among them even five times more frequently than those who don't smoke cannabis.

or cannabis consumption as very good thereby reporting their knowledge as better than abstainers in this respect.

#Illegal marijuana grows threaten fishers in the southern Sierra Nevadarat poison used on illegal marijuana grows is killing fishers in the southern Sierra nevada according to a recent study conducted by a team of scientists from the U s. Forest Service's Pacific

The authors speculated that the most likely source of the poisons was the illegal marijuana grows found throughout the Sierra nevada.

This new study solidifies that link documenting that female fishers who live in areas with a higher number of marijuana sites had more exposure to rodenticides

The researchers deduced that illegal marijuana grows are a likely source of the poison because the fishers in this study were radio-tracked and many were observed not venturing into rural urban

Illegal marijuana cultivation on public lands is widespread and some growers apply large quantities of numerous pesticides to deter a wide range of animals and insects from encroaching on their crops.

and variety of poisons found at the illegal marijuana plots is a new threat. According to co-author PSW wildlife biologist Dr. Kathryn Purcell exposure of wildlife to pesticides has been documented widely

In marijuana cultivation sites regulations regarding proper use of pesticides are ignored completely and multiple compounds are used to target any

In the vicinity of illegal marijuana sites numerous dead or dying insects and small mammals are often found.

#Illegal marijuana grows threaten fishers in the southern Sierra Nevadarat poison used on illegal marijuana grows is killing fishers in the southern Sierra nevada according to a recent study conducted by a team of scientists from the U s. Forest Service's Pacific

The authors speculated that the most likely source of the poisons was the illegal marijuana grows found throughout the Sierra nevada.

This new study solidifies that link documenting that female fishers who live in areas with a higher number of marijuana sites had more exposure to rodenticides

The researchers deduced that illegal marijuana grows are a likely source of the poison because the fishers in this study were radio-tracked and many were observed not venturing into rural urban

Illegal marijuana cultivation on public lands is widespread and some growers apply large quantities of numerous pesticides to deter a wide range of animals and insects from encroaching on their crops.

and variety of poisons found at the illegal marijuana plots is a new threat. According to co-author PSW wildlife biologist Dr. Kathryn Purcell exposure of wildlife to pesticides has been documented widely

In marijuana cultivation sites regulations regarding proper use of pesticides are ignored completely and multiple compounds are used to target any

In the vicinity of illegal marijuana sites numerous dead or dying insects and small mammals are often found.

New research to be presented Sunday May 5 at the Pediatric Academic Societies (PAS) annual meeting in WASHINGTON DC supports the theory that cigarettes are a gateway drug to marijuana.

and marijuana were more likely to smoke more tobacco than those who smoked only tobacco said study author Megan Moreno MD MSED MPH FAAP an investigator at Seattle Children's Research Institute and associate professor

if they had used tobacco or marijuana ever in their lives and in the past 28 days. Researchers also assessed the quantity

and frequency of marijuana and tobacco use in the past 28 days. Results showed that prior to entering college 33 percent of the 315 participants reported lifetime tobacco use

In addition tobacco users were more likely to have used marijuana than those who did not use tobacco.

Of these 53 percent reported concurrent marijuana use. Overall users of both substances averaged significantly more tobacco episodes per month than current users of tobacco only (42 vs. 24.

because in the past year we have seen legislation passed that legalizes marijuana in two states Dr. Moreno said.

While the impact of these laws on marijuana use is a critical issue our findings suggest that we should also consider

whether increased marijuana use will impact tobacco use among older adolescents. Future work should involve designing educational campaigns highlighting the increased risks of using these substances together Dr. Moreno concluded.

#Smoking marijuana associated with higher stroke risk in young adultsmarijuana the most widely used illicit drug may double stroke risk in young adults according to research presented at the American Stroke Association's International Stroke

In a New zealand study ischemic stroke and transient ischemic attack (TIA) patients were 2. 3 times more likely to have cannabis also known as marijuana detected in urine tests as other age

This is the first case-controlled study to show a possible link to the increased risk of stroke from cannabis said P. Alan Barber Ph d. M d. study lead investigator and professor of clinical neurology at the University of Auckland

Cannabis has been thought by the public to be a relatively safe although illegal substance. This study shows this might not be the case;

Only 8. 1 percent of controls tested positive for cannabis in urine samples. Researchers found no differences in age stroke mechanism or most vascular risk factors between marijuana users and non-users.

In previous case reports ischemic stroke and TIAS developed hours after cannabis use Barber said.

These patients usually had no other vascular risk factors apart from tobacco alcohol and other drug usage.

It's challenging to perform prospective studies involving illegal substances such as cannabis because questioning stroke

and control patients about cannabis use is likely to obtain unreliable responses Barber said. In the study the regional ethics committee allowed researchers to use urine samples from other hospitalized patients.

The study provides the strongest evidence to date of an association between cannabis and stroke Barber said.

because all but one of the stroke patients who were cannabis users also used tobacco regularly.

We believe it is the cannabis and not tobacco said Barber who hopes to conduct another study to determine

whether there's an association between cannabis and stroke independent of tobacco use. This may prove difficult given the risks of bias and ethical strictures of studying the use of an illegal substance he said.

However the high prevalence of cannabis use in this cohort of younger stroke patients makes this research imperative.

Physicians should test young people who come in with stroke for cannabis use Barber said. People need to think twice about using cannabis

because it can affect brain development and result in emphysema heart attack and now stroke he said.

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