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15 Shocking Facts You Don't Know About Weed - Page 4 - 0 views

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  • ut research shows it can exacerbate mental health problems, such as bipolar disorder and schizophrenia, in people with a predisposition for these conditions.
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Calif. woman to show off newly transplanted hand - 0 views

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    This March 5, 2011 image provided by UCLA Health System shows Dr. Kodi Azari, left, and members of his surgical team performing a hand transplant at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles. The transplant was performed on a 26-year-old mother from Northern California who lost her right hand in a traffic accident nearly five years ago. UCLA is only the fourth center in the nation to offer this procedure and the 13th hand transplant surgery performed in the United States
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Getting Access To Your Own Data Sounds Like A Good Idea, But So Far It Hasn't Been Easy... - 0 views

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    While this sounds like a great idea which could empower the consumer to make more informed choices (health care and energy use were specifically mentioned in the article), there seem to be many issues with getting the consumer data in a usable form.
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15 Shocking Facts You Don't Know About Weed - weather.com - 0 views

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  • But research on its long-term medical effects — and its impact on healthy individuals — has been hampered by the federal government’s stance on its legality, he continued. “Pharmaceutical development has been thwarted by the federal government’s seeming unwillingness to have new scientific discovery supplant long-standing ideology.”
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  • Tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC, the active psychedelic ingredient in cannabis, has known anti-tumoral effects, Donald P. Tashkin, M.D., a pulmonologist at UCLA who has studied marijuana for more than 30 years, told weather.com. “It’s been shown by a large number of investigators to [reduce] growth of brain, lung, breast, prostate and thyroid cancer cells in animal models,” he said.
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15 Shocking Facts You Don't Know About Weed - Page 5 - 0 views

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  • What weed users are really feeling is short-term cognitive and motor impairment.
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15 Shocking Facts You Don't Know About Weed - Page 3 - 0 views

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  • It impairs the activity of immune cells in your lungs, which work to prevent respiratory infections, by impairing their ability to kill bacteria and fungus, Dr. Tashkin said.
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  • Some marijuana experts, like Mayo’s Bostwick, think this tight regulation is harmful because all the marijuana used in studies come from the same place — whereas in the real world, the plants can vary widely, leading to different effects for different people.
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  • There is “absolutely no comparison” between the safety of marijuana and tobacco smoke, Dr. Tashkin added, noting that the latter is the top cause of preventable deaths in the United States. No one has ever overdosed on marijuana, and no major studies have found a significant increase in lung cancer risk from the drug.
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15 Shocking Facts You Don't Know About Weed - Page 8 - 0 views

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  • His friends said he was agitated after eating the brownie — one side effect of edible pot that’s not usually seen when the drug is smoked. Edibles are also more likely to make an individual paranoid and dizzy, Franson said at the AHCJ conference.
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  • There are known carcinogens in marijuana smoke the same that’s in tobacco smoke. We also know that there are pre-cancerous changes in the [airways] of heavy marijuana users who don’t smoke tobacco.”
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  • A Swedish study of 45,450 males showed no increase in the 15-year mortality rate of pot smokers, compared to those who did not smoke, according to an editorial published in BMJ.
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  • Extremely low doses of THC may protect the brain from long-term cognitive damage in the wake of injury from a lack of oxygen, seizures or toxic drugs, one study in mice published in the journal Experimental Brain Research found.Another mouse study concluded that CBD might help stop alcohol-related brain damage.
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