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After toiling for decades in relative obscurity, the fight to legalize marijuana for recreational use in the United States is finally having its moment in the sun. For the first time ever, a recent Gallup poll found a solid majority of Americans in favor of legalizing the drug—a 10-point swing from 2012. The Department of Justice recently said it won't interfere with Colorado and Washington , states whose citizens voted to legalize pot last year. Earlier this month, the city of Portland, Maine, as well as a trio of Michigan municipalities, followed suit and voted to permit recreational pot use. Four decades after President Nixon declared the War on Drugs, the government's battle against marijuana may be beginning to subside. If the trend continues, it presents a massive business opportunity for people looking to get into the weed business without worrying about pesky drawbacks like getting arrested. Legal marijuana, already a $1.4 billion industry, is one of the most rapidly expanding markets in the United States. A recent study by Arcview Market Research predicted the industry has the potential to reach over $10 billion within five years and experience growth outpacing that of smartphones. Conversely, as with any major economic change, this growing acceptance—and possible full-scale legalization—has the potential to disrupt a whole host of long-standing industries. Here then is a guide to the winners and losers in the wild world of pot legalization: Winners Marijuana sellers The most obvious profit center arising from the legalization of marijuana is the cultivation and sale of the product to consumers. Since pot is currently outlawed at the federal level, it's difficult for economists to pin an exact figure on the size of the black market. However, Harvard economist Jeffrey Miron has estimated the overall size of the marijuana economy, which includes both illicit sales and legal ones made in the 21 states (including Washington, D.C.) that allow medical marijuana, at around $20 billion per year with the majority share going into the black market. A 2006 study out of George Mason University put annual domestic cultivation at somewhere in the neighborhood of 22 million pounds. Shifting that demand into the legal market presents an enormous opportunity—one that many people are already taking advantage of. While Colorado voters approved a marijuana legalization initiative last year, the ban on recreational pot sales won't officially be lifted until the beginning of next year. The state has seen a rush of activity among ganjapreneurs filing for the requisite permits to register their operations. Colorado officials expect to see over 100 legal pot shops open their doors on Jan. 1, 2014. As the law stands, doing the actual growing and distribution has both pros and cons. ‟The fastest opportunity for profitability in some states centers on wholesale cultivation, whereas in other states vertically integrated cultivation and dispensary operations take the lead," notes the Arcview report. ‟However, these businesses often have the most restrictions on investors and carry the greatest risk of federal enforcement actions." Ancillary businesses Outside of growth and sale of the actual plant, the marijuana industry comprises a range of related products and services designed to assist consumers with everything from procuring weed to putting it in their bodies. For a long time, these ancillary businesses have been relegated to dark corners of the counterculture. The increasing legal acceptance of marijuana has the potential to broaden the demographics of those who regularly ingest the drug while simultaneously creating a more mature consumer market where users can be more discriminating in their choices. One of the companies cashing in on this shift is Medbox (NASDAQOTH: MDBX ) , a firm that builds automated weed vending machines. Medbox, which was recently the subject of a bruising investigation by the Southern Investigative Reporting Foundation , saw its stock skyrocket from under $3 to nearly $100 following the marijuana-legalizing votes in Washington and Colorado. The price has since settled to around $20 per share. Other businesses include the dispensary finder and strain review site Leafly, and the handheld vaporizer the Pax Ploom. The latter is explicitly designed for tobacco use only, but it has managed to gather a sizable following among pot smokers. A review in Death and Taxesmagazine recommended it as an ideal accoutrement "for the executive stoner." Wellness products Over the course of the past 40 years of drug prohibition, black market growers have been under pressure to breed their products to become more and more potent. Stronger pot allows people to smoke less of it to achieve the same high. Therefore, suppliers need less space to transport the same monetary value of product. Operating under a prohibition, space is often at a premium because smaller physical loads make it easier to sneak packages past law enforcement undetected. The downside of this THC ‟arms race" is that consumers who want marijuana products for reasons other than getting baked out of their skulls have been largely left in the dust. As regulations loosen, there's likely to be a corresponding increase in demand for non-psychotropic marijuana-based products targeted at a much different demographic than the stereotypical young, male pothead. Take, for example, Seattle-based cosmetics company Cannabis Basics, which offers a line of skincare and beauty products. While the lip balms and body lotions sold by Cannabis Basics have virtually nothing to do with getting high, they can only be obtained through licensed clinics in states with approved medical marijuana. Products like these, ones that take advantage of marijuana's non-intoxicating aspects, are likely to expand into wider use if prohibitions are repealed. Government coffers Drug prohibition is expensive. Harvard economist Jeffrey Miron told The Huffington Post that it's costing the U.S. government nearly $20 billion a year to keep marijuana illegal. To put that figure in perspective, NASA's budget for 2014 is $16.6 billion. About half of that expenditure comes from direct government spending on law enforcement, but the rest is the result of lost tax revenue. In November, Colorado voters overwhelmingly approved a ballot measure imposing a 25% sales and excise tax on all marijuana legally sold in the state. The Colorado vote showed the electorate's willingness to tax marijuana at the same time it resoundingly rejected a measure that would have hiked the state's income tax—indicating that levying sin taxes on legalized pot may prove a broadly acceptable solution for increasing government revenue. The tax rate on marijuana imposed by Colorado may seem steep, but it could serve as a model for the rest of the country. A RAND Corporation study surmised that widespread legalization would result in an 80% drop in pot prices . As long as taxes don't push the cost of legal weed significantly over black market prices, there's little chance high taxes would push consumers into illicit channels. Weed tourism "As some states are legalizing marijuana and others there not, I think a lot of people are going to be surprised by the growth of the marijuana tourism industry," explained Betty Aldworth of the National Cannabis Industry Association. Denver-based My420Tours offers tours of the Mile High City that founder Matt Brown likens to wine tasting tours of Northern California's Napa Valley, except for pot. Losers Private prisons & drug treatment centers The prison-industrial complex is an approximately $3 billion per year industry that houses about one out of every 10 inmates in the country. The biggest private prison firm,Corrections Corporation of America (NYSE: CXW ) , earned $1.7 billion last year. CCA's business is largely dependent on the number of people the government feels the need to lock up. ‟The demand for our facilities and services could be adversely affected by the relaxation of enforcement efforts, leniency in conviction or parole standards and sentencing practices, or through the decriminalization of certain activities that are currently proscribed by our criminal laws," the company outlined in its 2010 annual report. ‟For instance, any changes with respect to drugs and controlled substances...could affect the number of persons arrested, convicted, and sentenced, thereby potentially reducing demand for correctional facilities to house them." Even so, the vast majority of the three-quarters of a million people arrested each year for marijuana possession never actually serve time in prison. Most are issued fines or put into some form of community supervision. Often that supervision comes in the form of drug treatment programs, which could also lose out if many of those court-ordered diversions evaporate due to fewer convictions. Brewers & distilleries Christian Groh and Brendan Kennedy of Privateer Holdings, a private equity firm operating exclusively within the marijuana industry, explain that legalization has the potential to do greater harm to companies selling certain already-legal drugs than others. ‟We've found that people don't substitute marijuana for cigarettes, but they do often substitute it for alcohol," explained Groh. He noted that one of the ideas that sparked the creation of Privateer Holdings in the first place was as a means to attract investment from alcohol companies looking to hedge against any possible losses from increased pot consumption. Since marijuana is still prohibited at the federal level, large corporate and financial players have stayed out of making direct investments in the pot field. However, alcohol producers could still easily make those investments if marijuana were to be made legal. This potential avenue for investment may be why direct opposition on this front has been less than some have expected. "We're not actually seeing the kind of resistance against legalization that many people assume coming from alcohol and pharmaceutical companies," explained Aldworth. Law enforcement In an interview with ABC News last year, the executive director of the Fraternal Order of Police, the largest police union in the nation, said that, ‟the law enforcement community is universally consistent in its opposition to legalizing pot, in the interest of public safety and public health." While, as reason.com points out, there are some notable exceptions to that rule, law enforcement has been just about the largest single group fighting drug legalization in any of its forms. This opposition is at least partially due to the drug war being a major funding source for local police departments across the country. One way this occurs is through asset forfeiture , where law enforcement officials confiscate and then sell items—such as automobiles—connected to drug crimes. According to the General Accounting Office, the Department of Justice gave almost a billion dollars raised through asset forfeiture to local police departments in 2011. Critics argue this revenue-generation mechanism leads police departments to prioritize drug arrests over the investigation of other crimes; however, agencies also use the money to increase staffing and purchase new equipment that makes the communities they serve safer. Medical marijuana dispensaries In many cases, some of the most vocal opponents of full-scale legalization are the operators of medical marijuana dispensaries. The rationale behind this opposition isn't only that recreational legalization would depress prices and eat into medical dispensaries' market share. Medical marijuana dispensaries are, by definition, places where people go to get medicine. By legalizing pot and then slapping a large sin tax on it, the sense of marijuana as legitimate medicinal product that dispensary owners have worked for years to build, could evaporate. Politico reports that earlier this year, Medical Marijuana Caregivers of Maine joined a coalition to oppose a bill legalizing the possession of small quantities of marijuana for recreational use in the state. --- At this point, picking winners and losers is an act of speculation. No market as large as the United States has ever experimented with full-scale drug legalization, so there's no telling what the ultimate effects will be. When the United States ratified the 21st Amendment in 1933 ending alcohol prohibition, voters and legislators had some idea of what lay ahed, but they had no way of seeing the wave of boozy innovation—some of it positive, some of it decidedly less so—that would wash over the country in the ensuing decades. If local, state, and federal governments decide to do something similar with marijuana, seeing precisely what businesses and regulators do with it may end up being the most exciting part of the whole endeavor. http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2013/11/19/the-winners-and-losers-of-marijuana-legalization.aspx

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannabinoid_hyperemesis_syndrome sei que é wiki mas tem esse relato pessoal aqui... http://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?t=237511

não seria "liberado"? legalizado é algo que está dentro da lei ou previsto em lei, não?

Worth Repeating ​By Ron Marczyk, R.N. Health Education Teacher (Retired) In 1974 researchers learned that THC, an active chemical in marijuana, shrank or destroyed brain tumors in test mice. But the Drug Enforcement Administration quickly shut down the study and destroyed its results, which were never replicated -- until now. Here is the study the DEA funded, then tried to destroy and remove from universities across the United States -- and the first redo study that proved it correct. This post is dedicated to our hero, Marc Emery, who is a political prisoner of the DEA, locked up in federal prison for legally selling cannabis seeds from Canada. Stay strong, Marc! You have not been forgotten! You are right and the DEA is wrong! Thanks for having the balls to stand your ground! <a href="http://freemarc.ca/category/usertags/news"'>http://freemarc.ca/category/usertags/news" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(0, 0, 204); " target="_blank">http://freemarc.ca/category/usertags/news We Tokies ask that President Obama pardon this peaceful, non-violent man who tried to help all of humanity with compassion and love. Photo: Patients for Medical Cannabis ​If you search, you will find many links to versions of this story. It was reported back in May 2000. Then it went totally under the radar! The New York Times, Washington Post and Los Angeles Times all ignored the story, even though its newsworthiness is indisputable: a benign substance occurring in nature destroys deadly brain tumors. This is one of the most important stories in the history of the War On Drugs. All Tokies who are down need to know the facts surrounding this "historical medical crime scene." This censorship of freedom of information is why we hold the moral high ground in our struggle for cannabis legalization. You all should be able to explain the main points of this medical coverup by the DEA to all who will listen, to get the vote out and legalize in 2012. The DEA and other federal agencies had ordered these tumor studies done after hearing erroneous reports of possible immunological problems associated with cannabis smoke. They wanted the report to show evidence that cannabis damages the immune system. But in 1975, instead of health problems, an apparent medical breakthrough occurred and successful tumor reductions were recorded. Following this remarkably positive discovery by the Medical College of Virginia, orders were immediately handed down by the DEA and the National Institutes of Health to defund all cannabis/tumor research and reporting. Millions of Americans who might otherwise be alive today are dead because of these and other DEA orders regarding marijuana. "In 1983 the Reagan/Bush Administration tried to persuade American universities and researchers to destroy all 1966-76 cannabis research work, including compendiums in libraries," wrote Jack Herer. "We know that large amounts of information have since disappeared." Here is the study the DEA funded -- then tried to destroy. Photo: Cannabis Culture ​Anticancer Activity of Cannabinoids Journal of the National Cancer Institute Purpose of the Study (Hypothesis) "A preliminary report from this laboratory indicated that the ability of delta-9-THC to interfere with normal cell functions might prove efficacious against neoplasms. This report represents an effort to test various cannabinoids in several in vivo and in vitro tumor systems to determine the kinds of tumors that are sensitive to these compounds and reveal their possible biochemical sites of action(s)." Main Findings of the Study: Effects of Cannabinoids on Murine Tumors "Delta-9-THC, delta-8-THC, and cannabinol (CBN) all inhibited primary Lewis lung tumor growth, whereas cannabidiol (CBD) enhanced tumor growth. Oral administration of 25, 50, or 100 mg delta-9-THC/kg... inhibited primary tumor growth 8, 72, and 75 percent respectively, when measured 12 days post tumor inoculation. On day 19, mice given delta-9-THC had a 34 percent reduction in primary tumor size. On day 30, primary tumor size of 76 percent that of controls and only those given 100 mg delta-9-THC/kg had a significant increase in survival time (36 percent)." "These results lend further support to increasing evidence that, in addition to the well-known behavioral effects of delta-9-THC, this agent modifies other cell responses that may have greater biologic significance in that they have antineoplastic activity." ....... Researchers at the Medical College of Virginia discovered that cannabis is an incredibly successful herb for reducing many types of tumors, both benign and malignant (cancerous). In 1996 and 2006, the Medical College of Virginia again applied to receive grants for cannabis research and again were turned down by the DEA. They were being punished for being truthful in the past. If you have read my first four "Worth Repeating" medical reports on THC reducing cancer rates in lung, breast, head and neck, this 1974 U.S. government report validates what I have reported so far. Need further supporting evidence? Here's Part Two of this story. THC Destroys Incurable Brain Tumors February 2000: The first THC-cancer study since the 1974 government study cited above shows a possible cure. The study was by Dr. Manuel Guzman, et. al., of Complutense University. By the way, that's the same Dr. Guzman who carried out the research on my last "Worth Repeating," "Cannabinoid Therapy Reduces Breast Cancer Tumors." Anti-Tumoral Action of Cannabinoids: Involvement of Sustained Ceramide Accumulation and Extracellular Signal-Regulated Kinase Activation Source: Nature Main Finding "Delta-9 THC, the main active component of marijuana, induces apoptosis of transformed neural cells in culture. Here, we show that intratumoral administration of delta-9-THC and the synthetic cannabinoid agonist WIN-55,212-2 induced a considerable regression of malignant gliomas in Wistar rats and in mice deficient in recombination activating gene 2. Cannabinoid treatment did not produce any substantial neurotoxic effect in the conditions used. Experiments with two subclones of C6 glioma cells in culture showed that cannabinoids signal apoptosis by a pathway involving cannabinoid receptors, sustained ceramide accumulation and Raf1/extracellular signal-regulated kinase activation. These results may provide the basis for a new therapeutic approach for the treatment of malignant gliomas." Graphic: Beyond The Curtain ​The Madrid researchers reported in the March issue of Nature Medicine that they injected the brains of 45 rats with cancer cells, producing tumors whose presence they confirmed through magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). On the 12th day they injected 15 of the rats with THC and 15 with Win-55,212-2, a synthetic compound similar to THC. "All the rats left untreated uniformly died 12-18 days after glioma (brain cancer) cell inoculation... Cannabinoid (THC)-treated rats survived significantly longer than control rats. THC admininstration was ineffective in three rats, which died by days 16-18. Nine of the THC-treated rats surpassed the time of death of untreated rats, and survived up to 19-35 days. Moreover, the tumor was completely eradicated in three of the treated rats." Dr. Guzman is the one who knew the truth about the government study and provided the title of the work -- "Antineoplastic Activity of Cannabinoids," which appeared in a 1975 Journal of the National Cancer Institute -- that the government tried to destroy. World Hemp Revolution Dr. Manuel Guzman ​Guzman's investigation is the only time since the 1974 Virginia study that THC has been administered to live tumor-bearing animals. (The Spanish researchers cite a 1998 study in which cannabinoids inhibited breast cancer cell proliferation, but that was a "petri dish" experiment that didn't involve live subjects.) In an email interview for this story, Dr. Guzman said he had heard of the 1974 Virginia study, but had never been able to locate literature on it. Hence, the Nature Medicine article characterizes the new study as the first on tumor-laden animals and doesn't cite the 1974 Virginia investigation. "I am aware of the existence of that research," Guzman said. "In fact, I have attempted many times to obtain the journal article on the original investigation by these people, but it has proven impossible." The real hero here is Jack Herer, who broke the story in his famous book The Emperor Wears No Clothes. Photo: Mental Floss President Richard Nixon declared war on marijuana because he figured most of his political enemies used it. ​The DEA's original, real mission was to silence and intimidate anti-war protesters' free expression of speech -- as guaranteed in our Bill of Rights -- against the Vietnam War under President Richard Nixon. (See "Richard Nixon's Vengeful War on Marijuana," AlterNet.) Nixon reasoned that many on the Left used cannabis, and by locking them up, this would shut down the anti-war movement. The DEA was formed by Nixon to attack his domestic political enemies. This is still the case today. The DEA's reason for being is anti-freedom, anti-Bill of Rights and anti-human. The DEA should be defunded and disbanded, and the resources redirected to cancer medical research and hard drug treatment. See the recent Toke of the Town story, "Cannabis Advocates To GOP: Why Not Cut The DEA Budget?" The DEA destroyed a publicly funded medical report because its stunning and groundbreaking finding didn't agree with their political views -- then or now. It didn't matter that a window opened for a possible cancer cure using cannabis. They tried to censor and wipe out the free flow of medical knowledge. This is the equivalent of burning a heretical book and its ideas, because it proves you wrong. "There is nothing more frightening than ignorance in action." We, the people of the USA have lost 37 years of medical research in the fight against cancer. If, in years to come, THC is proven as an effective cure for any form of cancer, the individuals involved in covering that up, in my opinion, should be tried as war criminals due to the fact that this was done as an action in the War On Drugs. "If it turns out... that cannabis is the cure for cancer and the government suppressed this information for 25 years (and continues to suppress it), then the body count alone witll make this the biggest holocaust in recorded history," wrote Raymond Cushing, author of the AlterNet background story linked above. "Virtually all federal drug policy makers of both parties since 1975 -- including legislators, presidents and the DEA -- will be complicit and criminally liable." ....... Tokies, how does it feel to be on the winning side? We were always in the right -- stand tall! Welcome to the new Green Nation. ~ Ron Editor's note: Ron Marczyk is a retired high school health education teacher who taught Wellness and Disease Prevention, Drug and Sex Ed, and AIDS education to teens aged 13-17. He also taught a high school International Baccalaureate psychology course. He taught in a New York City public school as a Drug Prevention Specialist. He is a Registered Nurse with six years of ER/Critical Care experience in NYC hospitals, earned an M.S. in cardiac rehabilitation and exercise physiology, and worked as a New York City police officer for two years. Currently he is focused on how evolutionary psychology explains human behavior. fonte: http://www.tokeofthetown.com/2011/02/worth_repeating_1974_govt_study_showed_thc_shrinks.php :) :)

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Perdi uns 10 pontos de qi so de entrar no blog dessa mulher...

eu acho que ele quis dizer porta de entrada para a legalizacao, tipo quando legalizarem a maconha nao demora muito e legalizam as outras drogas tbm crime sem vitima nao eh crime...

http://www.gallup.com/poll/150149/Record-High-Americans-Favor-Legalizing-Marijuana.aspx?utm_source=alert&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=syndication&utm_content=morelink&utm_term=All%20Gallup%20Headlines%20-%20Politics October 17, 2011 Record-High 50% of Americans Favor Legalizing Marijuana Use Liberals and those 18 to 29 most in favor; Americans 65 and older most opposed by Frank Newport PRINCETON, NJ -- A record-high 50% of Americans now say the use of marijuana should be made legal, up from 46% last year. Forty-six percent say marijuana use should remain illegal. When Gallup first asked about legalizing marijuana, in 1969, 12% of Americans favored it, while 84% were opposed. Support remained in the mid-20s in Gallup measures from the late 1970s to the mid-1990s, but has crept up since, passing 30% in 2000 and 40% in 2009 before reaching the 50% level in this year's Oct. 6-9 annual Crime survey. According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, "Marijuana is the most commonly abused illicit drug in the United States." The National Survey on Drug Use and Health in 2009 found that "16.7 million Americans aged 12 or older used marijuana at least once in the month prior to being surveyed, an increase over the rates reported in all years between 2002 and 2008." The advocacy group National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws claims that marijuana is the third-most-popular recreational drug in America, behind only alcohol and tobacco. Some states have decriminalized marijuana's use, some have made it legal for medicinal use, and some officials, including former U.S. Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders, have called for legalizing its use. A Gallup survey last year found that 70% favored making it legal for doctors to prescribe marijuana in order to reduce pain and suffering. Americans have consistently been more likely to favor the use of marijuana for medicinal purposes than to favor its legalization generally. Younger Americans Most in Favor of Legalizing Marijuana Support for legalizing marijuana is directly and inversely proportional to age, ranging from 62% approval among those 18 to 29 down to 31% among those 65 and older. Liberals are twice as likely as conservatives to favor legalizing marijuana. And Democrats and independents are more likely to be in favor than are Republicans. More men than women support legalizing the drug. Those in the West and Midwest are more likely to favor it than those in the South. Bottom Line Support for legalizing marijuana has been increasing over the past several years, rising to 50% today -- the highest on record. If this current trend on legalizing marijuana continues, pressure may build to bring the nation's laws into compliance with the people's wishes. Survey Methods Results for this Gallup poll are based on telephone interviews conducted Oct. 6-9, 2011, with a random sample of 1,005 adults, aged 18 and older, living in all 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia. For results based on the total sample of national adults, one can say with 95% confidence that the maximum margin of sampling error is ±4 percentage points. Interviews are conducted with respondents on landline telephones and cellular phones, with interviews conducted in Spanish for respondents who are primarily Spanish-speaking. Each sample includes a minimum quota of 400 cell phone respondents and 600 landline respondents per 1,000 national adults, with additional minimum quotas among landline respondents by region. Landline telephone numbers are chosen at random among listed telephone numbers. Cell phone numbers are selected using random-digit-dial methods. Landline respondents are chosen at random within each household on the basis of which member had the most recent birthday. Samples are weighted by gender, age, race, Hispanic ethnicity, education, region, adults in the household, and phone status (cell phone only/landline only/both, cell phone mostly, and having an unlisted landline number). Demographic weighting targets are based on the March 2010 Current Population Survey figures for the aged 18 and older non-institutionalized population living in U.S. telephone households. All reported margins of sampling error include the computed design effects for weighting and sample design. In addition to sampling error, question wording and practical difficulties in conducting surveys can introduce error or bias into the findings of public opinion polls.

‘Stoner Stupid’ Myth Goes Up In Smoke July 27th, 2011 By: Paul Armentano, NORML Deputy Director Share this Article [Editor's note: This post is excerpted from this week's forthcoming NORML weekly media advisory. To have NORML's media alerts and legislative advisories delivered straight to your in-box, sign up here.] The consumption of cannabis, even long-term, poses few adverse effects on cognitive performance, according to clinical trial data to be published in the scientific journal Addiction. Investigators at the University of Melbourne and the Australian National University, Center for Mental Health Research assessed the impact of cannabis use on various measures of memory and intelligence in over 2,000 self-identified marijuana consumers and non-users over an eight-year period. Among cannabis consumers, subjects were grouped into the following categories: ‘heavy’ (once a week or more) users, ‘light’ users, ‘former heavy’ users, ‘former light’ users, and ‘always former’ — a category that consisted of respondents who had ceased using marijuana prior to their entry into the study. Researchers reported: “Only with respect to the immediate recall measure was there evidence of an improved performance associated with sustained abstinence from cannabis, with outcomes similar to those who had never used cannabis at the end point. On the remaining cognitive measures, after controlling for education and other characteristics, there were no significant differences associated with cannabis consumption.” They concluded, “Therefore, the adverse impacts of cannabis use on cognitive functions either appear to be related to pre-existing factors or are reversible in this community cohort even after potentially extended periods of use.” Separate studies have previously reported that long-term marijuana use is not associated with residual deficits in neurocognitive function. Specifically, a 2001 study published in the journal Archives of General Psychiatry found that chronic cannabis consumers who abstained from the drug for one week “showed virtually no significant differences from control subjects (those who had smoked marijuana less than 50 times in their lives) on a battery of 10 neuropsychological tests. … Former heavy users, who had consumed little or no cannabis in the three months before testing, [also] showed no significant differences from control subjects on any of these tests on any of the testing days.” Additionally, studies have also implied that cannabis may be neuroprotective against alcohol-induced cognitive deficits. A 2009 studyby investigators at the University of California and San Diego reported that binge drinkers who also used cannabis experienced significantly less white matter damage to the brain as compared to subjects who consumed alcohol alone. http://blog.norml.org/2011/07/27/stonet-stupid-myth-goes-up-in-smoke/

Po realmente neguinho ta sendo muito cabeca fechada... A religiao eh o maior dos tabus, nao se pode questionar nenhum aspecto de nenhuma religiao sem ser tachado de preconceituoso. Eh sem sombra de duvida a melhor cobertura do mundo. mil vezes melhor que o medicinal. nego pode dizer que vc nao ta doente, mas duvido ele provar que vc nao tem fe... (fe na cannabis) Nao precisa nem ter espaco fisico, vc pode usar seu sacramento em casa... so entro em contato com meu deus se eu fumar tricomas de nevilles haze e tals... :'>

olha so o livro que ela escreveu... CACHAÇA ARTESANAL - DO ALAMBIQUE À MESA Autor(es): Ateneia Feijo, Engels Maciel

Estranho ninguém noticiar isso por aqui... Nao achei em nenhum site brasileiro.

Gabeira vendeu a alma pro DEMo!!!!!

o que te mata eh a falta de argumento nao eh?

aparentemente eh o ingrediente principal de formulas como o superbud ou rock flower juice, tem efeitos carcinogenicos ainda nao amplamente estudados. eh usada em culturas como maca ou manga, com o periodo de seguranca de um ano, ou seja eh preciso se esperar um ano desde a aplicacao para se colher frutos limpos...