Sentences with phrase «marijuana use in people»

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Nixon went on to say that 80 % of people arrested for consuming marijuana in New York state are black and Latino, although white New Yorkers use marijuana at roughly the same rates.

«I think in Mexico we should move towards regulating it at state level,» he said in an interview late on Wednesday, calling it «illogical» to divert funds from fighting kidnapping, rape and murder to arrest people using marijuana.

The bill forbids local authorities from working with federal agents, including using «agency money, facilities, property, equipment, or personnel to assist a federal agency to investigate, detain, detect, report, or arrest a person for commercial or noncommercial marijuana or medical cannabis activity that is authorized by law in the State of California.»

«My words have been grossly mischaracterized and taken out of context... I was discussing the value of treating people for using dangerous and illegal drugs like marijuana, and the context in which treatment is successful.»

U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions has made no secret of his contempt for marijuana use, and his Department of Justice is on the verge of releasing a report that many in the burgeoning legal cannabis industry fear will propose prosecuting people engaging in marijuana sales — even if they are in states that have legalized the drug locally.

The three states have lists of pesticides that are OK to use on marijuana, but so far none is conducting regular tests for banned pesticides, which has raised public health worries even though there's little or no indication of people becoming ill because of pesticides in legal marijuana products.

derp, I'm sure your son is a fine person, just as my two sons are, but how do you * know * he has never used marijuana, that he didn't do something in school that warranted being suspended or that he hasn't tried to buy a gun?

``... very strong politically correct and left - wing revisionist history attitude or tone that's also Anti-American (especially a vague charge against «U.S. foreign policy»), and strong anti-capitalist elements... blasphemy, implied urinating, vomiting, scatological humor, and comments on breast feeding and sexual parts of people's bodies; light brief violence includes beating on car window and trying to damage car, man comically shoves people off a stage, man burns books; sexual content includes homosexual references, implied adultery with a pregnancy out of wedlock, talk about a priest raping boy in the past, a giant condom balloon placed on church steeple, references to real condoms, implied fornication; upper male nudity, man wears a dress; alcohol use and drunkenness; smoking and marijuana use depicted, including eating marijuana brownies; and, strong miscellaneous immorality includes lying, stealing, revenge, rebellion, dysfunctional family portrayed, father is a pothead and a drinker and lives in a trailer»

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If you've been on the conscious eating path for any length of time, then you may already know that hemp seeds sold for kitchen use contain a completely insignificant amount of THC (delta 9 tetrahydrocannabinol, the primary psychoactive ingredient in marijuana that gets people «high»)... just in case you wondered.

Teens and young adults often think it's «cool» to use marijuana because they hear songs about it, and see people using it on television or in movies.

To my knowledge, there are a number of people in prison for possessing / using marijuana.

State Assemblywoman Crystal Peoples - Stokes has introduced legislation that would legalize marijuana use in New York State.

New York State currently provides a medical marijuana program for people with certain qualifying illnesses, but there has been renewed discussion over legalizing adult recreational use in recent years as states like Colorado and Washington pave the way.

«First, adjust to medical marijuana, then move down the path to decriminalizing, taxing and regulating adult use and the fact that the governor has now — for I believe the first time — signaled he is interested in even having an evaluation by his own people of this issue, I think, is a huge step forward for New York State,» Krueger continued.

In the 13 states that passed laws allowing for the use of medical marijuana between 1999 and 2010, 25 percent fewer people die from opioid overdoses annually.

While federal law still makes the possession, production and sale of marijuana a crime, Holder's announcement means the Justice Department won't file lawsuits against state laws in Colorado and Washington that allow people to possess marijuana for personal use.

State Sen. Liz Krueger, another Manhattan Democrat, has been pushing legislation to legalize and tax recreational use of marijuana, arguing state policy outlawing the drug has been costly in terms of law enforcement resources and the futures of people convicted of crimes.

This whole medicinal pot issue is a little thorny, since marijuana is illegal under federal law — period, end of story, even in states that have passed legislation or ballot initiatives making the drug legal for use by people who are sick, those individuals are still subject to arrest by federal officials for possession or cultivation.

That's what she understands sick people do in some of the 18 states in which marijuana is legal for medical use.

There's been a spike in the number of people heading to emergency rooms in Central New York, for treatment after using synthetic marijuana.

The event was sponsored by Civita Medical, whose founder, Josh Stanley, was one of the first people to open a medical marijuana dispensary in Denver, which has also legalized marijuana for recreational use.

Even though New York decriminalized small amounts of marijuana 40 years ago, local police especially in New York City have used the discriminatory enforcement of the law to target people of color.»

Even though New York decriminalized small amounts of marijuana 40 years ago, local police especially in New York City have used the discriminatory enforcement of the law to target people of color,» noted Hawkins.

New York has a medical marijuana program and has decriminalized small amounts of pot, but racial disparities in punishment remain even though white people and people of color use the drug at similar rates.

Moreover, people with these brain characteristics may simply be more likely to use marijuana in the first place.

A March study showed that in people aged 50 to 64, marijuana use increased nearly 60 percent between 2006 and 2013.

A study released Jan. 9 in the journal Neurogastroenterology and Motility even found that marijuana use is linked to a disorder called cyclic vomiting, which may be related to migraines and causes people to experience hours - or days - long vomiting episodes.

Many studies have found that most people who used other illicit drugs had, in fact, used marijuana first.

Yet just as people have since cast aside the notion that marijuana use inevitably culminates in the destruction of the mind, so have they also begun to question the concept that it is benign.

Recent studies in which marijuana users took controlled doses of cannabis in the lab have identified new biomarkers that can be used to estimate a person's recent cannabinoid intake.

People who used medical marijuana were more likely to say they had used prescription drugs in the past year.

Higher levels of non-medical prescription drug use by people who used medical marijuana persisted in an analysis limited to people who used prescription drugs.

«Given that people who take medical cannabis and those who do not are likely to have different underlying medical conditions, it is possible that medical cannabis use reduces prescription drug use yet prescription drug use remains relatively high in that group,» Dr. Bachhuber comments, He notes that chronic pain is the most common reason for medical marijuana use.

Others point out that such a claim is hard to prove because the same factors that lead people to use marijuana in the first place might also lead them to use other drugs.

However, young people's perceptions of the risks of using marijuana have decreased, suggesting that they may be more likely to start using marijuana in the future.

He tells me it was people like Rachel who led him to study the uses of marijuana in treating pain.

A recent study looked at marijuana and alcohol use in people between the ages of 18 and 24.

That's because it should allow researchers to investigate a wider variety of strains, including ones closer to what people are actually using in states where medical marijuana is legal.

People living with chronic low back pain (cLBP) are more likely to use illicit drugs — including marijuana, cocaine, heroin, and methamphetamine — compared to those without back pain, reports a study in Spine, published by Wolters Kluwer.

In fact, we know very well that people with PTSD who use marijuana — a potent cannabinoid — often experience more relief from their symptoms than they do from antidepressants and other psychiatric medications.

Replenishing the supply of a molecule that normally activates cannabinoid receptors in the brain could relieve mood and anxiety disorders and enable some people to quit using marijuana, a Vanderbilt University study suggests.

Even though the survey only included people who said they used marijuana, it's concerning that so many had seen ads for the drug, even in places where such ads are supposed to be prohibited, she added.

«If marijuana is legal in your state, are people more likely to use it around their children?»

Goodwin explained that she has a friend who works with a government agency in Colorado who often encounters casual marijuana use in other people's homes.

People who use alcohol, cigarettes, tobacco, smoke marijuana, use recreational drugs or take pharmaceutical drugs long term have an accumulated toxic load in the body far beyond the average person's endo - and exotoxin load.

Dating is a stage of romantic relationships in humans whereby two people meet socially with the aim of each assessing the other's suitability as a Boys and girls who have been victims of dating violence are more likely to get into fights, carry a weapon, use alcohol, use marijuana or

SUBSTANCE USE - A man drinks window cleaner and passes out in a park, a woman smokes marijuana at home as well as in a car while riding and while driving and in a restaurant where other men and women are also smoking marijuana, a woman offers marijuana to a friend who declines, several house party scenes show people injecting themselves with drugs, we see prescription bottles and rubber tubing stretched around a person's arm (injections occur off screen), a man drinks from a bottle of codeine cough syrup, goes to the drug store, purchases another bottle and drinks part of it while walking home and later a female neighbor drinks the rest of it in his home, and a man places a marijuana cigarette in his mouth to hide it from a policeman and says it made him feel sick like a bomb was strapped to his chest.

Cynthia Nixon, actress - turned - gubernatorial candidate in New York, referred to adult - use marijuana legalization in the state, equating it with slavery reparations and arguing that people of color suffer the most in the drug's prohibition

Illegally using, possessing, or being under the influence of a controlled substance or marijuana, on school property or at a school function, including having such substance on a person in a locker, vehicle, or other personal space; selling or distributing a controlled substance or marijuana, on school property; finding a controlled substance or marijuana, on school property that is not in the possession of any person; provided that nothing herein shall be construed to apply to the lawful administration of a prescription drug on school property.