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a mildly narcotic leaf that is chewed daily (and is blamed partly for a host of other problems,
or are addicted we simply to the new? There's no doubt that our consumption of resources from food to gadgets has risen dramatically over the past 60 years,
"The big thing about nicotine is the addiction. Â Nicotine is a potent drug oe it's the one chemical that keeps smokers inhaling all the rest.
His concerns are that snus could make it harder for active smokers to give up their habit by fuelling nicotine addiction,
London and New york are falling over themselves to attract this new breed of label-obsessed consumer addicts.
#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,
and act as an instant narcotic so you can wind down from Thanksgiving while wearing your pumpkin mask,
#Being a Diet Soda Junkie Puts You at Greater Risk of Weight Gain: Study Does ordering a diet soda with this meal compensate for the calorie overload?
In fact, two recent studies found that being a diet soda junkie could actually put you at a greater risk of weight gain.
author of a new policy statement on children, adolescents, substance abuse and the media. oewith nearly half of kids at least trying smoking,
alcohol and prescription drugs. oeparents have gotten caught up with all the hard drugs cocaine, steroids but they fail to realize that tobacco
Drug abuse (30 percent) and smoking and tobacco use (29 percent) rounded out the top three
Hispanic adults cited drug abuse; obesity was No. 2. oeat the national level, obesity as a problem is on par with youth smoking;
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,
1. Childhood obesity 2. Drug abuse 3. Smoking and tobacco use 4. Internet safety, 25 percent 5. Stress, 24 percent 6. Bullying, 23
percent 7. Teen pregnancy, 23 percent 8. Child abuse and neglect, 21 percent 9. Alcohol abuse, 20 percent 10.
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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#Genetically-Modified Salmon Will be First GM Animal Available for Human Consumption Genetically modified salmon could be on supermarket shelves within a year.
Hes addicted. Rizal isnt the first smoking youngster caught on tape. In March, a video of a 4-year-old Indonesian boy blowing smoke rings appeared briefly on Youtube,
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as in humans, to make the bee addicted, said lead researcher Professor Ido Izhaki. Nicotine is found naturally in floral nectar mostly in types of tobacco tree,
The researchers emphasized that this study has proved a preference, not addiction, and they are currently examining
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the same chemical found in marijuana. And while chocolate wont get you stoned (sorry, dude),
which he has spent billions of dollars on issues as diverse as marijuana legalization, civil society in central and Eastern europe,
Being a music junkie I plugged in some of my faves, but then gave it a trick question and another.
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The hallucinogen in magic mushrooms may no longer just be for hippies seeking a trippy high.
Researchers at Johns hopkins university School of medicine have been studying the effects of psilocybin, a chemical found in some psychedelic mushrooms,
when doctors use psilocybin#ong viewed skeptically for its association with 1960s countercultural thrill-seekers#or a range of valuable clinical functions,
The Johns Hopkins study#hose results will be published this week in the journal Psychopharmacology#nvolved giving healthy volunteers varying doses of psilocybin in a controlled and supportive setting, over four separate sessions.
#Identifying the exact right dosage for hallucinogenic drugs is crucial, Roland Griffiths, a professor of psychiatry at Johns Hopkins who led the study,
#In the 1950s and 60s, scientists became interested in the potential effects of hallucinogens like psilocybin, mescaline,
and lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) on both healthy and terminally ill people. Mexican Indians had, since ancient times, used psychedelic mushrooms with similar chemical structures to achieve intense spiritual experiences.
But by the mid 60s, counterculture gurus like Dr. Timothy Leary and Aldous Huxley were talking up mind-altering drugs as a way of expanding ones consciousness
Stories, perhaps apocryphal, circulated about people jumping out of windows while on LSD, and some heavy users were said to have suffered permanent psychological damage.
the US government had banned essentially all hallucinogenic drugs. But recent years have seen the beginning of a revival of mainstream scientific interest in mind-altering drugs,
and particularly in the possibility of using them in a clinical setting to alleviate depression and anxiety.
A 2004 study by the government of Holland (pdf) found psilocybin to have no significant negative effects.
whether psilocybin could prove useful in dealing with the psychological distress experienced by some terminal patients?#
and transcendental experiences associated with psilocybin could#f conducted in a controlled and supportive setting,
You can see one terminally ill cancer patient speak movingly about the positive effects of psilocybin here.
Hes currently leading a separate Johns Hopkins psilocybin study, using volunteers who are depressed after being diagnosed with cancer.
Lauri Reamer, 47, told The Lookout that she participated in two Johns Hopkins psilocybin sessions last September,
The psilocybin had an immediate impact. At the end of the session, I was just in this joyous, happy, relaxed state,
who have tried psilocybin. People feel uplifted, and very often have a sense that everything is O k. at one level,
and evil#smelled of Smouldering opium tar, tobacco absolute, green tea, black plum, kush, ambergris accord, ambrette seed,
and more research, comes only months after a U s. crackdown on alcoholic caffeinated beverages such as Phusion Projects Four Loko.
The new rules essentially treat cigarettes like an illegal narcotic. Applications now explicitly warn of tobacco-free hiring#
But the American Legacy Foundation, an antismoking nonprofit group, has warned that refusing to hire smokers who are qualified otherwise essentially punishes an addiction that is far more likely to afflict a janitor than a surgeon.
and nutrition this year. 1. Junk food is as addictive as heroin. A study was released just showing that over a period of five days consuming junk food,
The same pattern happens with drug use, specifically heroin. NO WONDER people have trouble losing weight.
a psychiatrist and former British drug czar, has identified six compounds similar to benzodiazepines#a broad class of psychoactive drugs#that won t get you rip-roaring drunk
and snacks around schools and in low-income areas plagued by obesity, analogous to alcoholism and alcohol regulation.
(and bike paths and mountain views) unfairly reducing Boulder to a playground where smug eco-liberals puffed legalized marijuana
As if#oeescapist#fiction is a cheap opiate used by the muddled and the foolish and the deluded,
Many teens who start with e-cigarettes may be condemned to struggling with a lifelong addiction to nicotine and conventional cigarettes.#
combines 3. Printed buildings (3d printing) 4. Packages delivered by drones 5. Farmers growing legal marijuana 6. Using vertical greenhouses for specialty crops above
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?
35. Perpetual Self-Filling Canteen In a world where people continually die from lack of hydration,
#This is your brain on a smartphone A mobile junkie. When is the last time you powered your smartphone all the way down?
I was a mobile junkie. The phosphorescent glow left me mesmerized and needing more. Each Snapchat or push notification fueled my need for news, updates,
I accepted my addiction and decided to make a change. Full disclosure: I m a technologist that works almost exclusively on mobile.
We (as app makers) want them to be addicting. Like a potato chip manufacturer, we try to put just the right crunch
We want you to get addicted. It puts the potato chips on our table. There have been several great posts and humbling videos about mobile abuse so
which plays an important role in modulating attention, reward-seeking behaviors, drug addictions, and movement. And therein lies the answer to the mystery of why nicotine could prevent a movement disorder like Parkinson s disease, due to its effects on dopamine.
nicotine is as addictive as heroin, cocaine or amphetamines, and for most people more addictive than alcohol.
Tobacco may well be as addictive as heroin, crack, alcohol, and Cherry Garcia combined into one giant crazy sundae.
Tobacco use has one of the highest rates of addiction of any abused drug. Paradoxically, in animal models, nicotine appears to be a weak reinforcer.
src=hash>#Navyfootball</a>game on Saturday against Air force is a GO. Kickoff 11:30 AM on CBS. No word on the rest of the sports this weekend. "</
and alcoholism as well as complications such as liver disease which are all valid concerns. But decades'worth of research shows that moderate alcohol consumption can reduce deaths from most causes particularly heart disease
Of course not all scientists agree that the Santa story is tied to a hallucinogen. Trippy Tales:
History of Magic Mushrooms & Other Hallucinogens In his book Mushrooms and Mankind (The Book Tree 2003) the late author James Arthur points out that Amanita muscaria also known as fly agaric lives throughout the Northern hemisphere under conifers
Vicious dog owners were arrested engaged in physical fights and used marijuana significantly more than other dog owners.
He Used Common House Paint</a p><p></p><p>In a chilling case report doctors in Turkey have described what they claim to be a real-life vampire with multiple personalities and an addiction to drinking blood.</
<a href=http://www. livescience. com/26971-real-life-vampire-addicted-to-blood. html target=blank>Real-life'Vampire'Addicted to Blood Doctors Claim</a p><p></p
Fruit flies for example will lay their eggs in more alcoholic fruit (produced by natural fermentation) when parasitic wasps are hanging around said Todd Schlenke an Emory researcher who wasn't involved in the review paper.
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.
and the social interaction inherent in organized sports made teens less likely to suffer from mental problems such as depression anxiety or substance abuse.
Canadian researchers reporting results that will be published in January 2011 in the journal Addiction said they ran 12 studies looking at the link between blood alcohol
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
But the plant is also the source of the highly addictive body-wasting drug heroin.
Consider trading in your junk food addiction and adopting these mood-boosting habits: Healthy Bites appears weekly on Livescience.
People with certain gastrointestinal or renal disorders are more likely to be deficient in magnesium as are alcoholics and the elderly.
It can be an addicting snack. Not only is it high in magnesium but also it has a great deal of protein and fiber.
I think there is a strong argument for never allowing another child to becomeâ addicted to tobacco Katz said.
#Some Weight Loss Supplements Contain Amphetamine-Like Compound Some popular weight-loss supplements contain a synthetic compound that is chemically similar to the drug amphetamine according to a new study by researchers at the Food and Drug Administration.
which is structurally similar to amphetamine. This compound has never before been tested in people although animal studies suggest it may behave similarly to amphetamine
and could pose a public health risk said Dr. Pieter Cohen an assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical school
Last month Cohen and colleagues reported finding a methamphetamine-like compound which had also not been tested in people in the workout supplement Craze.
Amphetamine risks The relatively high levels of beta-methylphenethylamine found in nine of the supplements indicate that the ingredient was not an accidental contaminant Cohen said.
Basically the label'Acacia rigidula'is being used as a cover for introducing a brand new synthetic drug similar to amphetamine Cohen said.
Amphetamines can make people feel energized but also have serious risks including addiction and increased risk of stroke Cohen said.
More studies are needed to determine the risks of beta-methylphenethylamine in people. Because many weight-loss supplements have been found to contain illegal ingredients people should avoid this class of supplements altogether Cohen said.
if you end up maintaining your addiction. You can't smoke cigarettes in a lot of public places.
It keeps the addiction alive. Â The FDA declined to comment on the difficulties involved with drafting rules for a product about
and potentially produced generations of individuals addicted to simple carbohydrates. When fat was consumed the consensus opinion said vegetable oils even those artificially hardened were safer for our susceptible coronary arteries.
or omega-3 fatty acids on average the symptoms of depression have been reduced by about 50 percent said Joseph Hibbeln a psychiatrist at the National Institutes for Alcohol abuse and Alcoholism.
Profits from wildlife trafficking estimated at $8 0 billion per year fund other illicit activities such as narcotics armsand human trafficking Kerry added.
which can be processed further into a sugar or fermented into an alcoholic drink. The nut technically called a drupe holds coconut water
#Why Carbs May Cause Food Cravings Refined carbohydrates such as corn syrup could trigger food cravings not unlike the cravings that drug addicts experience new research suggests.
and addiction centers in the brain. The study was looked small and only at overweight and obese men
Just as it finally became apparent years ago that it was no longer logical to doubt the science explaining nicotine addiction
In November Vanguardia (Mexico) reported that the Knights Templar have expanded from trafficking in cocaine marijuana
Does Alcoholism Have an Evolutionary Basis? As the child of an alcoholic father Robert Dudley long wondered what caused the destructive allure of alcohol.
Then while working in the Panamanian forest as a biologist Dudley saw monkeys eating ripe fruit
Maybe alcoholism is an evolutionary hangover. Had fruit-eating animals including human ancestors gained an evolutionary advantage by learning to associate the smell and taste of alcohol with ripe fruit?
Despite the concept's name drunkenness is only a small part of the hypothesis. Stories of apparently intoxicated animals may get a lot of attention
and those who used alcohol marijuana or other illicit substances were more likely to use hookah.
#Ancient Nordic Grog Intoxicated the Elite Ancient Scandinavians quaffed an alcoholic mixture of barley honey cranberries herbs
Studies of pollen content in northern European drinking vessels suggested the ancient residents drank honey-based mead and other alcoholic brews.
and the trade of arms and narcotics representatives from the World Wildlife Fund have said. In November 2013 the U s. destroyed six tons of ivory carvings jewelry and other trinkets that had been collected by the U s. Fish and Wildlife Service through smuggling busts and confiscations.
and drank a milky alcoholic concoction at one of the largest cities in prehistory Teotihuacan in Mexico researchers say.
A number of these paintings may also depict scenes of people drinking a milky alcoholic potion known as pulque
and the trade of arms and narcotics Woody said. In African nations where elephants are slaughtered for their ivory tusks the illegal ivory trade is exacerbated by a potent cocktail of poverty poor governance
Vodka is a popular alcoholic drink traditionally made from the distillation of fermented potatoes. Beer and tea are consumed also widely.
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.
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