Smoking cannabis ‘can cause brain damage in unborn children’
The News Review:
- Smoking cannabis ‘can cause brain damage in unborn children’
- Pair accused of taking 150 pounds of marijuana from storage shed
- Seizures of marijuana soaring in Arizona, much of Southwest
- Seizures of pot from smugglers jump 25 percent
- Police bust an 11-apartment grow op
Smoking cannabis ‘can cause brain damage in unborn children’
The Herald - May 26, 2007
“Because we have shown cannabinoids interact and are very important in the development of the brain the implication is that smoking cannabis during pregnancy could disrupt that natural process. “During development they will be produced at the right place at the right time in the natural process but if you flood the whole system with cannabis you are going to disrupt that. “It could mean the cannabis is being produced at the wrong place at the wrong time and the whole natural system is altered by the cannabis. “Here at the University of Aberdeen we are discovering that these molecules are important in many processes in the body including bone development, pain processing and appetite. Ultimately we hope our understanding of these molecules will lead to the development of new drugs for the treatment of a wide range of key diseases. ”
Professor Colin McCaig, head of the university’s School of Medical Sciences, added: “This is exciting and highly novel work that will be of major interest internationally. It continues and extends the University of Aberdeen’s reputation as a world-leading centre for biomedical studies on cannabinoids.
Pair accused of taking 150 pounds of marijuana from storage shed
Kingsport Times News - May 26, 2007
That’s the street price for 150 pounds. He and a 16-year-old male allegedly stole the marijuana and some tools from a storage facility. A Kingsport Police Department news release said Scott Hemingway, 32, 2145 Happy Hills, Lot 6, admitted to stealing the 150 pounds of marijuana in two bundles, and tools from a storage facility. Police valued it at $240,000. According to a police report released Saturday from Detective David Joe Cole, patrol Officer Scott Reid during a routine patrol Friday about 10:49 p.
Seizures of marijuana soaring in Arizona, much of Southwest
FOX11AZ.com - FOX11AZ.com (subscription) - May 26, 2007
(AP) — Officials say seizures of marijuana being smuggled into the U-S from Mexico have soared this year in southern Arizona. Just since October, law enforcement officers in the state have intercepted more than 675-thousand pounds of pot. That’s a 25 percent increase from the same period a year earlier. For the entire fiscal year that ran from October 2005 through September 2006, authorities nabbed more than 900-thousands pounds. Pot seizures are up across the Southwest this year, except for New Mexico.
Seizures of pot from smugglers jump 25 percent
Tucson Citizen - May 26, 2007
2007Seizures of pot from smugglers jump 25 percentARTHUR H. ROTSTEINThe Associated Press In a year of ongoing drought, grass has been greener in Arizona - for law enforcement agencies. They’re having a bountiful year harvesting marijuana loads from smugglers. According to a program that coordinates drug control efforts, there has been a 25 percent jump in the state in the number of reported pot seizures from Oct. 1 through April 30 over the same period a year earlier. Figures from the Southwest Border High-Intensity Drug Trafficking Area show that all law enforcement organizations in Arizona seized 676,856 pounds of marijuana over those seven months, compared to 540,376 pounds for the corresponding period of the previous federal fiscal year. They also nabbed more than 900,000 pounds during all of fiscal 2006, which ended Sept… "I can’t say if it’s the effect of more Border Patrol agents, or of better targeting. "I can’t say that there’s more dope available, because we don’t know what the universe of dope is. We don’t know how much marijuana is being produced in Mexico, and because we don’t know that, we can’t say whether there’s more or less. Do you make an intuitive leap? We do that, but it’s not fact and it’s not provable. " Coulson also said authorities don’t know how much marijuana their agents and officers are not catching. "No one can tell you what that figure is, because we don’t know how much is produced. " Marijuana loads grown in Mexico have been smuggled into Arizona in vast quantities for decades - concealed in produce trucks, inside panels in recreational vehicles, hidden in gas tanks.
Police bust an 11-apartment grow op
Toronto Star - May 26, 2007
Sometimes they see things going on but never see the plants," she said. Quang Tan Huynh, 38, of Toronto was arrested at the scene. He was charged with 11 counts of production of marijuana and one count of possession of marijuana for the purpose of trafficking. Police continue to investigate and believe more people were involved in the operations on Jameson Ave.