Researchers Press DEA to Let Them Grow Marijuana
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Armed with a legal decision in their favor, scientists and advocates of medical research on marijuana pressed the Drug Enforcement Administration yesterday to allow them to grow their own, saying that pot supplied by the government is too hard to get and that its poor quality limits their research.
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U.S. growers produce nearly $35 billion (18 billion pounds) worth of marijuana annually, making the illegal drug the country's largest cash crop, bigger than corn and wheat combined, an advocate of medical marijuana use said in a study released on Monday.
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Some people claim the plant called Cannabis sativa, also sometimes called Cannabis indica, &quot;marijuana&quot; or just &quot;pot,&quot; has medicinal value.
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The chemical in cannabis that produces a high may help to combat cancer, research suggests.
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Traditional drugs have done little to help 39-year-old Angel Raich. Beset by ailments that include tumors in her brain, seizures, spasms and nausea, she has been able to find comfort only in the marijuana that is recommended by her doctor.
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Scientists in China have identified  about 400 genes that appear to make some people more easily  addicted to drugs, opening the way for more effective therapies  and addiction control.
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The odds that adolescents will smoke, drink or use marijuana may have a lot to do with their physical development, regardless of their school grade level or how old they are, a new study shows.
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Sept. 14, 2004 -- Marijuana&#39;s active ingredient may form the basis for new antiviral drugs that fight cancer-causing herpes viruses.
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Scientists pay crack cocaine addicts to test an ADHD drug to treat their addiction. They're not sure it works, but we're pretty sure the volunteers are willing.
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VANCOUVER (CP) - A top American clinical researcher in the field of drug addiction warned Tuesday that decriminalizing marijuana could lead to increased abuse of the drug.
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Teenagers and young adults who frequently use cannabis are increasing their risk of suffering from psychotic symptoms such as bizarre behavior and delusions later in life, Dutch scientists said on Wednesday.
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BALKH, Afghanistan  - As Afghanistan struggles to cut its raging opium production, aid workers try to find alternative crops, but for some former poppy farmers the choice was easy -- they planted marijuana instead.
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American scientists are investigating whether the illegal âraveâ drug Ecstasy can ease the anxiety of dying cancer patients in their final days.
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The grass may be greener on the inside for inmates at Japan&#39;s Abashiri Prison, where marijuana shoots have been sprouting in the exercise yard.
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Good news for aging hippies: smoking pot may stave off Alzheimer's disease.
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LAZARAT, Albania  - Cannabis plants lay stacked up   like Christmas trees around a police station near this remote   Albanian village, a humbling sight for growers who two years   ago took pot-shots at an Italian police helicopter.
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A U.N. report showing Canadians use more marijuana than people in any other industrialized country is more evidence that the drug should be legalized, activists said on Tuesday.