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Study: Cannabidiol’s Potential for Alcoholics & Addicts
March 25th, 2018 – While Cannabidiol (CBD) has received attention for it’s therapeutic potential in treating epilepsy and psychiatric disorders, recently, CBD has also been explored for potential in treating drug addiction. Substance use disorders are chronically relapsing conditions and relapse risk persists for multiple reasons including craving induced by drug contexts, susceptibility to stress, elevated…
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How to Speak to Kids About Medical Marijuana
May 30,2010 – A very tough part of being a responsible medical marijuana patient is talking to children about it. I recently received an e-mail asking me to cover this topic, and so I went to the best place possible to receive the answer – The Mothers Against Misuse and Abuse Clinic in Portland, Oregon. …
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Controlled Prescription Drugs VS Medical Marijuana
May 10, 2010 – The National debate concerning the legalization of marijuana and, especially, of medical marijuana, continues to rage not just within the general public, but also including special groups of people like mothers and Baby Boomers. Within the Facebook community the groups such as “Moms for Marijuana” and “Baby Boomers for Medical Marijuana”…
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Comparison – Alcohol vs. Marijuana
1. Marijuana is far less addictive than alcohol. Dependence: How difficult it is for the user to quit, the relapse rate, the percentage of people who eventually become dependent, the rating users give their own need for the substance and the degree to which the substance will be used in the face of evidence that…
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Is it Time For Alcohol Detox?
October 7, 2009 – Alcohol is nice within bounds, and in moderation it can be one of life’s pleasant things. Unfortunately, many folks nowadays are addicted to drinking copious volumes of alcohol, this is very damaging to both their physical and mental welfare. Those people around them, the relatives and friends, also feel these damaging…
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Are Laws Prohibiting Marijuana Ethical?
October 5, 2009 – An Objective, Brief, and Ethical Exploration of a Law Prohibiting Marijuana Marijuana is illegal, but should it be? That is a question that remains unanswered. The road to the illegalization of marijuana began in 1937 when the Marihuana Tax Act was passed. While it didn’t make the drug illegal, it made…
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Stiletto Stoners — Making the Safer Choice
October 3, 2009 – Yesterday, on the Today show, Matt Lauer interviewed the editor of Marie Claire magazine and another woman about the use of marijuana among female professionals. This interview was inspired by an article on the same subject in the current issue of Marie Claire entitled, “Stiletto Stoners.” Neither the interview nor the…
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Portugal's Drug Policy – Treating, not Punishing
Aug 28, 2009 | LISBON – The evidence from Portugal since 2001 is that decriminalisation of drug use and possession has benefits and no harmful side-effects. IN 2001 newspapers around the world carried graphic reports of addicts injecting heroin in the grimy streets of a Lisbon slum. The place was dubbed Europe’s “most shameful neighborhood”…
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If Marijuana Is Legal, Will Addiction Rise?
July 22, 2009 – A New York Times article on Sunday discussed the debate over whether more and more potent types of cannabis affect the levels of addiction to the drug. This particular issue has become part of the larger debate over whether marijuana should be legalized or decriminalized. Anti-drug activists say that if the…
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Marijuana Is Gateway Drug for Two Debates
July 21, 2009 – IT was as if she woke up one day and decades of her life had disappeared. Joyce, 52 and a writer in Manhattan, started smoking pot when she was 15, and for years it was a pleasant escape, a calming protective cloud. Then it became an obsession, something she needed to…