Study: Marijuana Damages Brain
The News Review:
- Study: Marijuana Damages Brain
- P90 million marijuana burned
- Breaking News: Pair sentenced for marijuana operation
- THREE CHARGED IN MARIJUANA CASE.(News)
- Smoking hashish or marijuana said to double risk of schizophrenia
- Sentence on drug dealing held off
- Routine alcohol ban check turns into major drug find
Study: Marijuana Damages Brain
FOX News – Apr 30, 2007
But even small doses of another component, tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC, produced temporary psychotic symptoms in people, including hallucinations and paranoid delusions, doctors said. The results, to be presented at an international mental health conference in London on Tuesday and Wednesday, provides physical evidence of the drug’s damaging influence on the human brain. “We’ve long suspected that cannabis is linked to psychoses, but we have never before had scans to show how the mechanism works,” said Dr. Philip McGuire, a professor of psychiatry at King’s College, London. In analyzing MRI scans of the study’s subjects, McGuire and his colleagues found that THC interfered with activity in the inferior frontal cortex, a region of the brain associated with paranoia. Related Stories… tested the impact of THC on 150 healthy volunteers and 13 people with stable schizophrenia. Nearly half of the healthy subjects experienced psychotic symptoms when given the drug. While the doctors expected to see marijuana improve the conditions of their schizophrenic subjects — since their patients reported that the drug calmed them — they found that the reverse was true. “I was surprised by the results,” said Dr. Deepak Cyril D’Souza, an associate professor of psychiatry at Yale University’s School of Medicine. “In practice, we found that cannabis is very bad for people with schizophrenia,” he said. While D’Souza had intended to study marijuana’s impact on schizophrenics in more patients, the study was stopped prematurely because the impact was so pronounced that it would have been unethical to test it on more people with schizophrenia.
P90 million marijuana burned
sunstar.com.ph – Apr 30, 2007
Star Election 2007 Coverage
Enmodias said his men and military personnel uprooted about 450,000 fully-grown marijuana plants. He said a joint eradication operation was first conducted in Tinglayan from March 15 to 27, which resulted in the destruction of P21 million worth of the same cannabis sativa plants. However, during the earlier operation, Enmodias said successive gunshots were heard, fired upon either directly or indirectly against their operating troops. “It was assessed that marijuana cultivators or protectors in that area were in possession of high-powered firearms,” he explained. For that reason, they only uprooted and destroyed P21 million worth of marijuana and decided not to proceed to other target areas sighted at that time, which was located at the other side of the mountain, he said. But, with the utilization of military helicopters, Enmodias said they returned on Thursday to finish the operation.
Breaking News: Pair sentenced for marijuana operation
Citizens Voice – Apr 30, 2007
Police say his son was in the house and was used as a “lookout. ” Through a translator, Gurinovich said she wasn’t happy with the court and she felt the police lied. Petrov stuck to his story that the marijuana was for medical use. His attorney, Demetrius Fannick, said he plans to appeal. Read more in tomorrow’s edition of The Citizens’ Voice. ©The Citizens Voice 2008.
THREE CHARGED IN MARIJUANA CASE.(News)
highbeam.com – Apr 30, 2007
find The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH) articles. Byline: Post staff report Three men, including one from Cincinnati, were arrested by Kentucky State Police.
Smoking hashish or marijuana said to double risk of schizophrenia
Earthtimes.org – Apr 30, 2007
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If this is true then the tens of thousands of people who have taken prescription Marinol (pharmaceutical THC) for the last 20 years should all be suffering from mental illness!
In both cases, they are not! It’s easily verifiable!
I thought all this “Reefer Madness” ended in the 1940s. Apparently not in some parts of the world. Sadly, I also thought that you Europeans were smarter than us Americans. I guess I was wrong.
Sentence on drug dealing held off
MyTown Bay of Plenty – Apr 30, 2007
2007 By COURT REPORTER
A Tauranga builder who admitted to selling a “few supplies of cannabis tinnies” to friends and to a “pretty degrading” assault on his partner has been given 180 hours’ community work and six months’ supervision. Brendon Karl Laison, 33, had previously pleaded guilty to one charge each of cultivating cannabis, selling cannabis, possession of cannabis plant and male assaults female. But in Tauranga District Court on Friday he was sentenced on only three of the charges _ he will be sentenced on the most serious offence of selling cannabis on June 29. The court was earlier told how on March 13, police went to Laison’s Whakamarama home on unrelated matters. During a search police found 30 cannabis seedlings about 10cm high in the sleepout, along with 195 grams of dried cannabis… But in Tauranga District Court on Friday he was sentenced on only three of the charges _ he will be sentenced on the most serious offence of selling cannabis on June 29. The court was earlier told how on March 13, police went to Laison’s Whakamarama home on unrelated matters. During a search police found 30 cannabis seedlings about 10cm high in the sleepout, along with 195 grams of dried cannabis. Also found was an indoor growing light, a set of scales and a blender used to process cannabis buds, and a bong (cannabis pipe). On March 10, an argument had broken out when Laison arrived home drunk and objected to his partner telling him he couldn’t drink in the house and should take himself and his mate off to the garage. Laison slapped, then punched his partner a number of times in the chest, grabbed her by her hair and forced her head back on the floor. He admitted his guilt when police were called to the house.
Routine alcohol ban check turns into major drug find
MyTown Bay of Plenty – Apr 30, 2007
45pm on December 31, Davies and an associate were seen by police drinking within a liquor ban area on Marine Parade. Police opened the car door to search for alcohol but smelled cannabis. Davies and his associate admitted they had recently smoked cannabis inside the vehicle and Davies told the police officer he would point out where the cannabis was. As Davies moved towards the open front passenger door, he took a small plastic bag containing nine ecstasy pills from a cardboard box and immediately stuck it into his mouth and tried to swallow the packet. He was restrained so police could remove the bag. After a further search of the vehicle police found 12 tinnies of cannabis.