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State rules marijuana smoke is a carcinogen, may require dispensaries to post warnings
By April Dembosky
San Jose Mercury News

June 20, 2009 - Joints and baggies sold at California's medical marijuana dispensaries will soon carry a new warning label. Next to tags like "Purple Haze" and "White Widow" will be the advisory: Contents may cause cancer when smoked.

On Friday, California added marijuana smoke to its official list of known carcinogens, joining the ranks of arsenic, asbestos and DDT. Pot brownies, lollipops and other non-inhalables are not affected by the new ruling.

Scientists found the pungent smoke shares many of the same harmful properties as tobacco smoke, warranting its inclusion on the Proposition 65 warning list. The law requires the state to publish a list of chemicals known to cause cancer or reproductive toxicity, and businesses and government agencies must post warnings when they use such chemicals or sell products containing them.
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Marijuana Not Only Gets You High, It Damages Your DNA
Reuters

June 17, 2009 - Smoking marijuana not only gets you high, but it also alters your DNA.

Researchers at the University of Leicester in England have found "convincing evidence" that pot smoke damages DNA in ways that could potentially increase the risk of cancer.

"There have been many studies on the toxicity of tobacco smoke,” researcher Rajinder Singh said in a news release. “Cannabis in contrast has not been so well studied."

Singh said cannabis smoke contains 400 compounds including 60 cannabinoids. It also contains 50 percent more carcinogenic polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons including naphthalene, benzanthracene, and benzopyrene, than tobacco smoke, Singh added.
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Marijuana use reaches record "high"
New America Media
By: La Opinion New Report

November 26, 2008 - This year a record number of marijuana plants was seized in California, and a record number of people arrested for marijuana across the country, reports La Opinión. The destruction of nearly 5.3 million marijuana plants between July and October 2008 in California, was triple the number of plants seized in 2004. In addition, nearly 900,000 people were arrested across the country for crimes related to marijuana. The federal Office of National Drug Control reports that consumption and popularity of marijuana among teens and adults this year rose by more than 150 percent compared to the 1980s.

In California nearly 1.3 million teenagers consumed marijuana last year, according to a state survey. The zero tolerance policy in schools and the tightening of laws against carrying, distribution and consuming the drug is sending more people to jail than ever before. A total of 872,720 drug buyers and sellers went to prison in the past year, of which 775,138 were cases of marijuana possession.
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Hawaii workplace says marijuana use still up
Pacific Business News (Honolulu)
July 14, 2008 - Marijuana use in Hawaii workplaces continued to increase in the second quarter of 2008, according to statistics from Diagnostic Laboratory Services.

Marijuana use was up from 2.3 percent to 2.5 percent in the second quarter of 2008, with 250 employees testing positive of the approximately 10,000 tested.
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Marijuana stronger than ever ... More potent dope than the
hippies smoked... addictions in teens on the rise
Christina Macone-Greene
Special to the Village News

July 10, 2008 - Think marijuana is a harmless drug with insignificant effects?

A recent study into the psychoactive strength of marijuana was conducted by the University of Mississippi’s Potency Monitoring Project and the findings were released by the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) and National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA).

The result of the study points to a sharp increase in the THC levels (psychoactive component) in the plant-based drug. These findings have raised concerns over the mental health effects on adolescents using marijuana.

“The potency of marijuana in the United States has doubled since the mid-1980s,” said Rafael Lemaitre, spokesperson for ONDCP.
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Heavy cannibis use linked to smaller brain parts
New Scientist com news service
Emma Young

June 6, 2008 - Long-term, heavy cannabis users have been found to have smaller parts of the brain that relate to memory, the regulation of emotion and aggression, compared to non-users.

Murat Yücel at the University of Melbourne, Australia, and colleagues used high-resolution magnetic resonance imaging to compare the brains of 15 men who had smoked at least five joints daily for more than 10 years with those of non-drug users.

Aged brains
They found that volume of the hippocampus, which is involved in memory and regulating emotion, was on average 12% smaller in the cannabis users. The amygdala, which is involved in fear and aggression, was 7.1% smaller.
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Cannibis use increases risk of psychotic illness
NewScientist.com news service
Anna Davison
July 27, 2007 - Researchers say they have the strongest evidence yet that using cannabis increases the risk of later developing psychotic illnesses such as schizophrenia.

On average, cannabis smokers have a 41% greater chance of suffering from such disorders than those who didn't inhale, the new study finds. And the likelihood increases with increasing cannabis use, with heavy users - who smoke daily - three times as likely as non-users to develop psychotic illnesses.

Cannabis is the most commonly used illegal drug in the world. In the UK and the US, for example, around 40% of young adults have used cannabis, according to government research.
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