Drug Abuse

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Ontario police made some easy arrests this week after they were summoned to the scene of a major marijuana growing operation.

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After undercover agents were able to purchase as much as a pound of marijuana without ever having to display any medical need, the owners of "Holistic Caregivers" were arrested on felony drugs charges.

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Law makers are threatening to shut down Vancouver's controversial safe injection clinic. The clinic is getting supported by somewhat improbable allies - retired police officers.

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Admitting to the use of doctor prescribed marijuana gets Washingtonians labeled illicit drug users by organ transplant committees.

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Harvard researchers used animal model studies to learn more about how teens get addicted to drugs.

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Almost twice as many Canadians smoked marijuana in 2005 than did in 1977, and the average age of a marijuana user increased from 26 to 31 over that same period.

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The American Heart Association has recommended that doctors start asking emergency room visitors complaining of chest pain, whether they had been using cocaine.

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Police say that the average cheese heroin user in Dallas is getting younger, and doctors confess that they just don't know how to treat an addiction in those as young as 9.

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• North Dakota Woman Faces Probable Jail Time for Breastfeeding While Intoxicated
• Houston Researcher Says New Moms Get "Addicted" to Infant Smiles

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Barbara Mason, of the Scripps Research Institute, will spend four years and four million dollars of govt. money looking at marijuana addiction, and hoping to learn how we might be able to treat it.

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Irish researchers will reveal study data today that shows remarkable differences in the pre frontal cortexes of addicts and non addicts.

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Scientists in New Zealand examined lung cancer patient case histories, and determine that smoking 1 joint a day for 10 years increases your risk for lung cancer by 5.7 times.

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