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Howijuana: Marijuana’s past

Marijuana is one of the oldest psychoactive drugs known to man. It may be of little surprise that it has only been illegal for less than 1% of this known existence. The U.S. history of marijuana and its prohibition can be exhausting and eye opening. In the first installement of the HMJ ganjamentary “Howijuana: Marijuana’s past, present…our [...]

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Does Science Prove Cannabis Leads to Memory Loss?

A recent article from CBS News claims “marijuana hurts memory and cognition.” Using lab rats, scientists concluded cannabis causes the brain regions to “fall out of sync with each other.” Alcohol, a legal depressant, also causes memory loss. Oh well, at least we’re giggling with delight as our brain regions fall out of sync. Learn [...]

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Is There a Risk of Psychosis From Teenage Cannabis Use?

A lot of us started toking at an early age. As such, we were doping our dopamine with THC before our brain had fully matured. It’s that premise Dr. James Kennedy, director of the neuroscience research department at Toronto’s Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH), uses to state: “The research I’ve done is on [...]

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U.S. Attorney on California Crackdown of Cannabis Dispensaries

The U.S Attorney’s office has decided to raid state-approved medical marijuana cannabis dispensaries. The U.S. Justice Department has basically switched their initial acquiescence of  state-approved medical cannabis use, to one of militant disdain for any dispensary that may be selling to recreational users. If you’ve ever spent time with one of the (reportedly) million California [...]

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What benefit does marijuana hold for asthmatics?

Many people are shocked or reluctant to accept the positive effects of marijuana on asthma. Looking at the symptoms from Mayo Clinic one would think THC; especially inhaled through smoke, would worsen an asthma attack. In reality many asthmatics benefit such a thing. With clinical research results and patient experience, there’s ow you why more and more patients and doctors are exclaiming [...]

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Science Says Cannabis Makes You More Creative

We’ve recently gone over the side-effects of cannabis, but we didn’t mention the biggest myth theory about cannabis and drugs in general: they make you more creative. Robert Arthur’s Narco Polo blog posted a piece entitled Marijuana Promotes Creativity: The Evidence. Let’s go over his piece, and other like-minded attempts to give cannabis credit for [...]

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Navy plans on dismissing sailors for drug use

Our men and women of the service sacrifice so much for this country. Time with their family and friends, uncertainty, failed programs…the list goes on. However, for this article we’ll look at one thing and one thing only…they’re at the top of the government’s “Shalt not use drugs” list. Sixty-four sailors from the U.S. Third Fleet, [...]

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Former Mexican President, Vincente Fox, Blames U.S. for Mexican Drug War Casualties

Vincente Fox spoke with the BBC’s Katty Kay about Mexico’s War on Drugs. Since 2006, when Fox was replaced by Felipe Calderon as President of our neighbors to the south, there are have been 45,000 deaths during battles with the drug cartels. To place that in context, there were 58,000 U.S. soldiers killed in our [...]

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