The most expensive place in the world to get stoned is Japan, according to the United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime’s annual World Drug Report. The street price of a gram of cannabis weed was $58.30 in 2005, over twice as much as in the next most expensive nation, Australia. Americans pay nearly twice […]
This is an article taken from the Guardian.co.uk website.
Cannabis users are smoking more of the stronger stuff as skunk marijuana pushes traditional pot to the sidelines of the British drugs market, a government advisory panel heard today.
The highly potent sinsemilla, or “skunk” as it’s known on the street, is now used by up to 70% […]
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As the press releases will essentially be released through a partner website to the Google News network, we will be looking for the following:
A very good command of the English Language and strong writing skills
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The BBC website published a story yesterday, following on from two studies recently published in Respirology and the European Respiratory Journal suggesting that heavy cannabis users may be at a significantly greater risk of chronic lung disease - including cancer - compared to tobacco smokers.
One of the studies took a sample group of 79 patients […]
This graph speaks for itself.
After a few years of battling my own nicotine addiction, I can personally say that if I ever have children, I’d far rather they smoked the odd spliff than became regular cigarette smokers or heavy drinkers.
It was with much pleasure that I read the report last year commissioned by the government […]
According to the London Evening Standard (Thisislondon.co.uk) A teenager who was crazed by high-strength cannabis butchered a grandmother after ‘voices in his head’ told him to stab a woman. The article continues with:
Ezekiel Maxwell, a paranoid schizophrenic, launched the horrific attack after years of smoking super-strength ’skunk weed’.
The 17-year-old claimed ‘gangster voices’ from the […]
According to the Sun, top cops demanded tougher cannabis laws yesterday — because millions of youngsters think the drug is legal.
Police chiefs said ministers must end confusion by reversing their controversial decision to downgrade the drug in 2004.
Their call comes amid growing fears about the explosion of super-strength “skunk” cannabis in the UK.
PM Gordon Brown […]
