Con: Marijuana’s damaging effects
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- Con: Marijuana’s damaging effects
- Senior citizen finds marijuana in garden
- Back to the stoned age
- No surprise at raid on cannabis factory
- Woman charged over cannabis seizure – Enmore
- PETALUMA: NEARLY 300 MARIJUANA PLANTS SEIZED FROM RESIDENCE
Con: Marijuana’s damaging effects
Los Angeles Times, CA
Though such a study design may be convenient, it makes interpretation tricky because heavy users may have traits in common besides smoking pot. Thus, says psychologist and marijuana researcher Stanley Zammit of Cardiff University in Wales, it is not easy in these kinds of studies to separate out the contribution of marijuana to any measurable effect in the group. PsychosisClaims of a link between marijuana use and psychotic episodes came under scrutiny after the U. downgraded cannabis from Class B to Class C in 2004. In 2007, Zammit was asked by England’s Department of Health to survey the existing evidence to determine the long-term risks for mental illness from using cannabis. After researching the literature and including only those studies that satisfied certain criteria, he combined the results in a 2007 Lancet paper.
Senior citizen finds marijuana in garden
Stuff.co.nz, New Zealand
About 50 senior citizens attended the fifth birthday of the Welcome Mat, a community group of church members who cook for elderly residents each Friday. The woman at the centre of the hot gossip preferred to remain anonymous, but she said a couple of days after heavy rain forced the evacuation of some houses not far from her house, she found a carton containing six pots of healthy marijuana plants in her garden. Alongside them was a long light and electrical cord. The woman called police who picked them up. "I suspect that someone evacuating their home dumped them at my place but now they won't get them back," she said.
Back to the stoned age
Independent, UK
More than a decade later – and with recreational drug use more prevalent than ever – how would this balding, 38-year-old father of two cope with a cannabis habit? He decided to cultivate one in the name of research. with startling results Monday, 18 August 2008.
No surprise at raid on cannabis factory
Swindon Advertiser, UK
Machinder Rehnsi says the find is symptomatic of the growing drug culture in the area. This has shown that the individuals involved in this home cultivation of cannabis will take great risks with the lives and property of others for their own personal gainSgt Rob Kilgour And he has called on police to clamp down on the problem before it gets out of hand. Mr Rehnsi, the owner of Handyman Store, at the corner of St Maryâs Grove and Ferndale Road, which is only yards from the cannabis house, says he often has to deodorise his shop because of cannabis smokers. He said: âThis neighbourhood has always had drugs, but it has become worse lately, many homes have been bought up by landlords and have been turned into flats.
Woman charged over cannabis seizure – Enmore
NSW Police Online (press release), Australia
15pm on Friday (15 August 2008), police attended a house in Simmons Street, Enmore on an unrelated matter. Police became aware of an elaborate hydroponic set-up of cannabis plants in two rooms on the second level of the home. Following the execution of a search warrant, detectives allegedly discovered 63 cannabis plants and hydroponic equipment. The estimated street value of the seized cannabis plants is $200,000. The 38-year-old woman was charged with knowingly participating in the cultivation of cannabis plants. She was granted conditional bail and will appear at Newtown Local Court on 2 September 2008.
PETALUMA: NEARLY 300 MARIJUANA PLANTS SEIZED FROM RESIDENCE
CBS 5, CA
Officers were called to a residence at 737 Judith Court around 12:20 p. where they could hear a loud argument from inside the home, police said. Once inside the officers discovered two bedrooms, a downstairs closet and part of the garage were being used to grow 297 marijuana plants, police said.