Cannabis more toxic than cigarettes: study

The News Review:

- Cannabis more toxic than cigarettes: study
- Medical Marijuana Case Back In Court
- Police uproot marijuana plants
- Drugs were supplied to girlfriend.
- In Ex-Detective’s Trial, His Book Provides a Bizarre Plot Outline

Cannabis more toxic than cigarettes: study
The Age – Mar 27, 2006
Cannabis smoke contains seven times more tar and carbonmonoxide, the French National Consumers’ Institute concluded inresearch published in the April edition of its monthlymagazine. The institute tested regular Marlboro cigarettes alongside 280specially rolled joints of cannabis leaves and resin in anartificial smoking machine. The tests examined the content of the smoke for tar and carbonmonoxide, as well as for the toxic chemicals nicotine, benzene andtoluene. “Cannabis smoke contains seven times more tar and carbonmonoxide than tobacco smoke,” the institute’s magazine “60 millionconsumers” said. Someone smoking a joint of cannabis resin rolled with tobaccowill inhale twice the amount of benzene and three times as muchtoluene as if they were smoking a regular cigarette, the studysaid.

Medical Marijuana Case Back In Court
NBC 11.com – Mar 27, 2006
Supreme Court ruled against her an Oakland woman is renewing her fight Monday to legally smoke marijuana. Angel Raich will go back before a federal appeals court in Pasadena with a different legal argument. Her lawyers will try to persuade a three-judge panel that keeping her from using medical marijuana unduly burdens her fundamental rights to life and freedom from pain.

Police uproot marijuana plants
Sun St.Kitts/Nevis – Mar 27, 2006
The plants which ranged in height from “seedlings to five feet” were found on a “grassland area directly behind the Education Department’s Annex at Cayon Street,” a press release emanating from the Royal St. It also noted that members of the police force made a search of the said area and upon finding the plants, uprooted them and took them into custody.

Drugs were supplied to girlfriend.
Free with registration – Europe Intelligence Wire – AccessMyLibrary.com – Mar 27, 2006
Drugs were supplied to girlfriend. | Europe Intelligence Wire (March, 2006). Neil Chamberlain (40) was arrested in March last year after police raided his house… –> COPYRIGHT 2006 Financial Times Ltd. (From Leicester Mercury) A man who supplied ecstasy and cannabis has been ordered to do 180 hours of unpaid work. Neil Chamberlain (40) was arrested in March last year after police raided his house and found 58 ecstasy tablets with small quantities of cannabis and cannabis resin.

In Ex-Detective’s Trial, His Book Provides a Bizarre Plot Outline
New York Times – Mar 27, 2006
Caracappa, 64, were arrested in Las Vegas (at a restaurant where Jerry Lewis often celebrates his birthday), Variety was already reporting that three film studios were vying for the rights to ”Mafia Cop. Once the trial began, the chief witness in its Brooklyn phase was revealed to be an old, arthritic marijuana dealer with a talent for ”diversionary driving” and subsidiary interests in African diamonds and stolen leisure suits. The chief witness in the trial’s Las Vegas phase was a disgraced, pomaded C. with a taste for gambling and bruschetta.

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