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Marijuana Munchies Pave Way for New Diet Drug
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by Mary Jane
Mon Feb 16th, 2004 at 2:42 pm
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It's well known that marijuana causes you to crave food, an effect commonly known as "the munchies". Scientists have now isolated the pleasure circuit in our brains that causes this craving activated by cannabinoids.
After studying ways to restrict this pleasure circuit, scientists have developed a new drug called rimonabant that may effectively fight obesity. According to drug development technology, phase III trials involving over 6,000 are now ongoing in both the US and Europe. So far the clinical findings have been promising; treatment with rimonabant produced significant weight loss in obese patients with little or no side effects. |
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Physical Topics :: Link & Discuss
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Don't Get Stoned, Get Drunk
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by Mary Jane
Mon Feb 2nd, 2004 at 2:44 pm
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| I watched the greatest Super Bowl in history last night, but unfortunately it was tarnished by the hypocrisy of CBS advertisements. Weeks before the Super Bowl, CBS rejected an ad from the MoveOn.org campaign that informed the public about the federal deficit's impact on children. From the Center for American Progress: The ad simply says that the President is responsible for the deficit and that the nation's children will have to pay for it. There is nothing controversial about this assertion.
Here's a nice quote from Tina Fey commenting on the CBS censorship:
CBS has said they will not air Moveon.org's ad, saying they don't air so-called 'issue ads.' Unless the issue is that girls are sluts for beer. --Tina Fey
Obviou!
sly, CBS is playing politics with free speech. If CBS won't run a political ad about the deficit, what kind of uncontroversial ads will they run?
Lets see... They ran some anti-drug ads funded by Anheuser Busch. This company spends millions on spreading propaganda about drugs because if marijuana were legal the profits they make from marketing mass-produced beer would plummet. They don't really care if people are hooked on drugs; they just want to make sure people are hooked on their drug.
What a wonderful world we live in where everything revolves around the almighty dollar. |
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Drug War Topics :: Link & Discuss
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The Hasheesh Eater by Fitz Hugh Ludlow
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by Mary Jane
Mon Jan 26th, 2004 at 3:12 pm
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Fitz Hugh Ludlow may single handedly disprove the myth that all potheads are brain dead. After reading his book, I'm convinced this is the most brilliant attempt to ever commit psychedelic experiences to paper. His mammoth vocabulary and exceptional writing talent make this book second best to only taking on the psychedelic experience yourself.
In case you're wondering why I refer to eating hash as a psychedelic experience, let me explain. In his hay day, Mr. Ludlow was known to ingest the hash equivalent of an ounce of marijuana in one sitting. Because of these large doses, his experiences were more comparable to LSD than marijuana. The book was written in 1857, so Fitz Hugh Ludlow didn't have the same conveniences as Timothy Leary.
The downside of this book is that you could spend all day flipping through a dictionary to uncover the meanings behind Fitz Hugh Ludlow's massive!
vocabulary. Luckily, Dave Gross has created an edition of this book on CD-ROM that deciphers each archaic word quickly and easily. When you reach an old English word, just click on the hyperlink to retrieve the definition. The content of this book is priceless, but now you can purchase Dave Gross's annotated edition of The Annotated Hasheesh Eater on CD-Rom for only $14.95 here. |
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Spiritual Topics :: Link & Discuss
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Indoor vs. Outdoor Marijuana Horticulture
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by Mary Jane
Sat Jan 17th, 2004 at 11:31 am
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If you plan to start a marijuana growing operation, one of the first decisions you'll need to make is whether to grow cannabis indoors or outdoors. As you might expect, both propositions have advantages and disadvantages.
Outdoor Cultivation
If you reside in a country with unjust laws against marijuana cultivation, you should seriously consider growing outdoors. Bar none, the biggest advantage to growing outdoors is security. It's much more difficult for authorities to catch marijuana growers who plant seeds in the spring and come back in the fall for harvest rather than indoor growers who sit on their crop all year long.
Perhaps the safest way to cultivate marijuana outdoors is by planting seeds within a forest that has small open pockets for sunlight to peak through. Buy yourself a GPS (Global Positioning System) to mark the exact latitude and longitude of your !
crop's location. In the fall when it's time to harvest your crop, let the GPS device guide you back to your fully grown plants. Make sure to check the accuracy of the GPS before you make a purchase. An inexpensive GPS device may only guide you within 100 meters of your crop, while others advertise accuracy within 10 feet.
One advantage of growing marijuana outdoors is low maintenance. Mother Nature will do all the work for you in the outdoor environment, unlike indoor crops where the outdoor environment must be recreated.
The biggest disadvantage to outdoor cultivation is the limitation of one crop per year. Unless you live in a warm climate all year long, the marijuana season starts in the spring and ends in the fall. Another disadvantage is the possibility of law enforcement, thieves, or wildlife destroying your coveted plants.
Indoor Cultivation
The main advantage to growing marijuana indoors is the ability to!
grow year-round. The climate can be artificially adjusted indoors, s
o marijuana can be fooled into believing when to vegetate and when to flower.
The biggest disadvantage of growing indoors is security. It's difficult (if not impossible) to hide the smell of marijuana while creating ample ventilation at the same time. Also, it becomes a challenge to contain abnormally strong light from leaking through windows. Even under perfect circumstances, non-violent marijuana offenders have spent years in prison because of freak accidents like fires or nosy landlords. |
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Marijuana Horticulture Topics :: Link & Discuss
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