Marijuana Abuse

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  30,000 Secretly Grown Marijuana Plants Destroyed In Turkey: Report

  Turkey's drug squad has destroyed 30,000 marijuana plants being secretly grown in a vast terraced garden by the Tigris River that is on the UN Cultural Heritage list, media reports said on Sunday.

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  New Zealand Charity Apologises For Donating Sweets Containing Lethal Meth

  A New Zealand charity apologised on Wednesday for distributing dozens of pineapple-flavoured candies that were found to be laced with potentially lethal amounts of methamphetamine.

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  UP Woman Refuses To Marry After Groom Gets Drunk, Smokes Ganja: Cops

  A bride refused to marry her groom allegedly after she found him abusing in an inebriated state and smoking marijuana during the marriage function, police said on Thursday.

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  Producer Firoz Nadiadwala's Wife Arrested After Raid Finds 10g Marijuana

  Bollywood producer Firoz Nadiadwala's wife was arrested by the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) on Sunday after investigators found 10 grams of marijuana at their home in Mumbai during a raid, officials said.

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  Sushant Rajput's Cook Arrested As Probe Over 59 Grams Of Marijuana Widens

  Actor Sushant Singh Rajput's cook Dipesh Sawant was arrested by the Narcotics Control Bureau or NCB on Saturday in the probe into allegations of drug abuse surrounding the movie star's death in June. Earlier believed to be a witness in the case, Mr Sawant was arrested after being questioned since the morning. With this, the total number of people a...

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  Children Of Mothers Who Use Marijuana Are Likely To Try It Early: Study

  When mothers use marijuana during the first 12 years of their child's life, the children are more likely to start using cannabis at an earlier age than those with mothers who don't use it.

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  Taking Vegetarian Diet During Pregnancy May Lead To Substance Abuse In Children Later In Life: Study

  Almost 10,000 teenagers in the UK were asked by the researchers for their use of alcohol, tobacco, and marijuana, out of which, about half responded. Then, data on the type of diet that their mothers took was analysed so as to find out potential links between the two, and based on that , conclusions were drawn.

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  Chronic Back Pain Linked To Illicit Drug Use

  People living with chronic low back pain are more likely to use illicit drugs -- including marijuana, cocaine, heroin, and methamphetamine -- compared to those without back pain, says a study.

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  Marijuana Use Doubles in US in a Decade

  Nearly one in 10 adults smokes marijuana in the US, a rate that has more than doubled in the past decade as laws and attitudes about pot relax, researchers said Wednesday.

• Chaka Khan reached out to Whitney Houston

  Singer Chaka Khan made a plea to Whitney Houston, who had confessed to abusing cocaine and marijuana to sort her life out before she died.

• Medical use of marijuana costs some a job

  Residents in 14 states and Washington can now appeal to their doctors for prescriptions for medical marijuana to help them with their pain. Their employers, however, may not be so understanding. In some cases, workers have been fired for failing drug tests despite having prescriptions saying, in effect, that what they are doing is legal accord...

• Smoking, drug abuse related to puberty

  The habit of smoking, drinking or using marijuana among adolescents may be related to their physical development.