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Amanda Bynes arrested after allegedly tossing bong from window
Amanda Bynes was arrested Thursday after she allegedly tossed a bong out of her Manhattan apartment window, police said. The "What I Like About You" star was reported to police at about 7:40 p.m. after an employee at the 47th Street high-rise where...
Tags: Trials, Lifestyle and Leisure, Litigation, Lobbying, Entertainment
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Illinois Senate approves bill to legalize medical marijuana
Illinois has come within a signature of becoming the 19th state to allow marijuana use for medical purposes. On Friday, the state Senate voted 35-21 to approve a medical marijuana measure, which now will head for Gov. Pat Quinn’s desk. The...
Tags: Health Treatments, Illinois Governor, OxyContin (drug), Medical Marijuana Therapy, Lifestyle and Leisure
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Marijuana legalization wins majority support in poll
WASHINGTON -- A majority of Americans support legalizing marijuana, a new poll indicates, with the change driven largely by a huge shift in how the baby boom generation feels about the drug of their youth. By 52% to 45%, adult Americans back...
Tags: Health Treatments, Recreational Substance Use, Medical Marijuana Therapy, Politics, Lifestyle and Leisure
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Addressing girls' health needs at juvenile detention centers
Latrice lifts the sleeve of her gray sweatshirt to reveal small, dark lines — scars from slicing her forearm over and over to drown out pain from years of sexual abuse. She says she was an alcoholic, dropped out of school in the eighth grade and got...
Tags: Lifestyle and Leisure, Science and Technology, Juvenile Delinquency, Health and Medical Professionals, Electronics
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Doctors debate telling patients to smoke marijuana
Perhaps you know whether you’d want to use marijuana to relieve severe pain or nausea. But if you were a doctor, what would you tell patients who asked about taking something that’s against federal law? The New England Journal of Medicine...
Tags: Health Treatments, Symptoms, Recreational Substance Use, Food and Drug Administration, Medical Marijuana Therapy
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The DEA's pot defense [Blowback]
Reacting to a federal appellate court decision upholding the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration's denial of reclassification of marijuana, The Times states in its Jan. 25 editorial that whether marijuana should be reclassified under federal law to...
Tags: Health Treatments, University of Mississippi, Substance Abuse, Medical Marijuana Therapy, Lifestyle and Leisure
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Teen pot smoking lowers adult IQ? A second look says maybe not
In late August, baby boomers (and others whose teen years were spent in a haze of marijuana smoke) seemed to get the comeuppance they had long feared: A study suggested that early and frequent pot smoking resulted in depressed intelligence scores well...
Tags: Recreational Substance Use, Lifestyle and Leisure, Research, Duke University
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Marijuana use among teens rises, national survey finds
More adolescents are using pot and they increasingly believe that the drug is benign. Those are the findings from the latest annual survey of eighth-, 10th- and 12th-graders put out each year by the University of Michigan and funded by the National...
Tags: University of Michigan, Recreational Substance Use, Lifestyle and Leisure, Drugs and Medicines, Vicodin (drug)
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Rodney King drank, smoked pot before drowning, records show
L.A. NOWBefore his death by accidental drowning, Rodney King spent the night and early morning hours drinking and smoking marijuana at his house in Rialto and was stumbling around his backyard moments before he fell into his swimming pool, according to the San... -
Baseball coach held on child endangerment charges
L.A. NOWA junior varsity baseball coach at a Granada Hills high school was arrested Monday on suspicion of child endangerment after he allegedly smoked marijuana with students, authorities said. Pedro Cruz Trujillo, 24, who worked at John F. Kennedy High School..... -
White and mixed-race youths rank high in alcohol, substance abuse
The first-ever survey of adolescent alcohol and drug abuse to recognize youths of mixed race or ethnicity has found that such kids hover closest to white adolescents in the rate at which they suffer substance abuse disorders. That is not reassuring,...Tags: Social Issues, Recreational Substance Use, Substance Abuse, Health, Minority Groups
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