Sentences with phrase «use of marijuana down»

Chronic use of marijuana down - regulates cannabinoid receptors, and thus paradoxically increases anxiety.

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Marijuana interdictions at the Mexican border are down substantially, youth use has not increased in states with legal access to cannabis, and responsible cannabis businesses are contributing tens of thousands of jobs and hundreds of millions of dollars in economic impact to their communities.»

Tree — who said the policy change restored a price support for growers by reintroducing a «federal risk premium» — told Business Insider that while consumers in states were marijuana was legal were probably used to a high - quality and tested product, he suspected cracking down on legal marijuana production and sales would incentivize trafficking of lower - quality marijuana to states where the drug is still illegal.

People all through history have enjoyed, even depended on, the buzz they get from smoking nicotine, or drinking alcohol, or swigging down a cup of coffee, or inhaling marijuana, or using the harder drubs, and that is not likely ever to end.

«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.

De Blasio says New York City is the safest big city in the United States and pointed to overall crime being down, a 93 percent drop in the use of stop and frisk policing, his neighborhood policing initiative and argues that marijuana possession arrests have gone down even as critics note an increase.

Even though Obama said in 2008 that he considered the «basic concept of using medical marijuana for the same purposes and with the same controls as other drugs prescribed by doctors... entirely appropriate» and did not plan on using the DOJ's resources to circumvent state laws, the department has continued to raid, and in some cases shut down, dispensaries and cultivation facilities in at least nine state since he took office.

Past year use of K2 / Spice, referred to as «synthetic marijuana» in the survey, was reported at 3.7 percent among 12th graders, down from 11.3 percent five years ago.

The study suggests that marijuana use — even in the absence of cannabis use disorder (characterized by problematic use of cannabis due to impairment in functioning or difficulty quitting or cutting down on use)-- is associated with increased odds of smoking onset, relapse, and persistence.

While marijuana's «exogenous» cannabinoids also can reduce anxiety, chronic use of the drug down - regulates the receptors, paradoxically increasing anxiety.

News of a letter from former DEA officials (some of whom profit from drug - testing business and, therefore, have a vested interest in keeping it illegal) to President Obama urging him to use federal power to put down Washington's and Colorado's recent local votes to legalize use of marijuana in their states hit the media week.