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The downsides to legalizing marijuana
Michigan Radio
However, that evolving view needs to include public health. The question is: If marijuana is more available than it is now, can we handle it? Anti-marijuana advocates say no. They argue pot is more potent than ever - highly addictive, even dangerous.
The Great DebateSouth Bend Tribune
Pot debate finally lives up to billingOur Colorado News
Drug czar: Pot legalization won't change missionLake Wylie Pilot

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Prescription drug abuse: A 'silent epidemic' - Independent Record
Helena Independent Record
For a while, she smoked weed and used meth and pills daily. She knew the dangers of meth. “Not even once,” she said, parroting the theme of the Montana Meth Project's in-your-face ads. But when it came to pills, not so much. Prescription drug abuse ...

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Prescription drug abuse: A 'silent epidemic' - Independent Record
Helena Independent Record
For a while, she smoked weed and used meth and pills daily. She knew the dangers of meth. “Not even once,” she said, parroting the theme of the Montana Meth Project's in-your-face ads. But when it came to pills, not so much. Prescription drug abuse ...

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Teen girls less successful than boys at quitting meth in UCLA pilot research study
Imperial Valley News
The clinical trial focused on use of the antidepressant bupropion for treating methamphetamine addiction. Nineteen adolescents — nine boys and 10 girls — with meth addiction who were receiving counseling at Behavioral Health Services were given ...

NorthJersey.com
The grim life of North Jersey's suburban heroin addicts
NorthJersey.com
Dooner and his friends experimented with drugs in high school, mostly marijuana and the occasional pill. But his troubles really started, Dooner said, with a lacrosse injury his senior year. He was prescribed Percocet, then stronger painkillers. Once ...

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Weed in the Garden State
The Trentonian
Human Services Department spokeswoman Ellen Lovejoy says research indicates that marijuana IS addictive in some cases — for about 9 percent of all pot smokers. And among those who start using marijuana at a young age, the addiction risk is “closer to ...

Acupuncture Reduces Cocaine Seizures & Death - New Study - HealthCMi
HealthCMI
New research demonstrates that acupuncture reduces the incidence of cocaine related seizures and death. Seizures occur at a rate of approximately 2-10% of cocaine users. High doses of cocaine are lethal. In addition, cocaine use is linked to cardiac ...

Larry Brown Sports
Phoenix smoke shop welcomes Honey Badger to town with ad
Larry Brown Sports
He later went to rehab for his marijuana addiction and admitted he abused himself through the extensive use of marijuana. Though the ad was clever, Mathieu passed his drug test at the combine and hasn't shown hints of a continued struggle with the ...

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Us Magazine
'I've Done Coke Four Or Five Times': Troubled Star Lindsay Lohan Dismisses ...
Entertainmentwise
The Mean Girls star's troubled lifestyle has often been blamed on her addictions to drink and alcohol - but LiLo has revealed she has only taken cocaine four or five times, despite what has been reported on her wild partying ways. Lindsay Lohan has ...
Lindsay Lohan denies addiction, loves ecstasy and thinks rehab is pointlessExaminer.com
Judge OKs Lindsay Lohan's Rehab at Betty Ford CenterPatch.com
Lindsay Lohan to Piers Morgan: "I've Never Been a Huge Drinker"Seattle Post Intelligencer
The Inquisitr -fox5sandiego.com -International Business Times AU
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Medical marijuana providers leery of jumping into recreational market
Peninsula Daily
... North Olympic Peninsula suppliers of medical marijuana from considering entering the recreational pot market. Expected taxes on recreational marijuana are keeping Misty Pharr, owner of Olympian Canna on Tumwater Truck Route in Port Angeles, from ...

Meth can cause permanent brain damage - The Billings Gazette
Billings Gazette
Dr. Rick Pullen, a psychiatrist at Rimrock Foundation and an addiction specialist, said meth eventually damages the brain's ability to produce dopamine. When a user quits, dopamine is in a deficit state, and it takes a long time to recover, he said ...

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SmokeWire.com Releases Infographic Contrasting Alcohol to Marijuana
PressDoc (press release)
The infographic also notes the positive of marijuana, including the lack of physical addiction, antidepressant quality, alleviation of cancer symptoms, lack of overdose capability, brain cell growth promotion, and more. Alcohol tends to be associated ...

High-End Gaming Coming to Firefox Browsers & the iPhone is as Addictive as ...
Patently Apple
This week we discovered that Mozilla is working on high-end gaming for the Firefox browser. Our report provides you with a few photos and a link to a game-demo to try out on your Mac, and hopefully your 27" iMac in full screen. And while high-end ...

Who's most at risk with pot?
Andalusia Star-News
According to HHS (Health & Human Services), states having medical marijuana were also at the top of the list in terms of drug addiction and usage for adolescents age 12-17. Due to the evidence, is it worth the risk to our kids, society, when usage ...

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Maine pot advocates push for legalization
Lewiston Sun Journal
Ten percent of that revenue would be used to regulate sales, 10 percent would go for addiction treatment, 5 percent would fund research on marijuana through 2021 and the balance would go to the state's General Fund. Russell said legislatures in ...
Marijuana legalization advocates get their shot with lawmakersWLBZ-TV
Bill To Legalize Marijuana Gets Long Awaited Public HearingWABI

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Meth Addiction May Be Harder to Treat in Teen Girls - Philly.com
Philly.com
FRIDAY, May 3 (HealthDay News) -- Teen girls have a more difficult time kicking their methamphetamine habit than boys, according to a small new study which suggests that new methods are needed to treat methamphetamine abuse in girls. The study ...

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Meth Addiction May Be Harder to Treat in Teen Girls
U.S. News & World Report
The teens who took bupropion provided far fewer methamphetamine-free urine samples than those who took the placebo, which suggests that bupropion did not work as a treatment for methamphetamine addiction, the researchers said. They also found that ...

Meth Addiction May Be Harder to Treat in Teen Girls
U.S. News & World Report
The teens who took bupropion provided far fewer methamphetamine-free urine samples than those who took the placebo, which suggests that bupropion did not work as a treatment for methamphetamine addiction, the researchers said. They also found that ...

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Talk Radio News Service
Obama Says No To Legalizing Marijuana
Talk Radio News Service
The Obama administration's strategy, though, is somewhat controversial since it technically defines regular pot users as people with brain diseases — addiction, the administration says, is a brain disease. Scores of marijuana defenders, however, say ...
Obama and Peña Nieto Should Have “Real Conversation” About Alternatives to ...The Daily Chronic

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Breaking the Addiction to Incarceration: Weekly Highlights (05/03/2013)
American Civil Liberties Union News and Information (blog)
Louisiana is considering HB 103, which would remove marijuana possession from the state's habitual offender law, which mandates life without parole. Also under consideration is HB 154, which distinguishes aiders and abettors from principal offenders ...