Marijuana

Marijuana use can lead to cognitive dysfunction in some HIV patients

Use of marijuana, medically or recreationally, may seem like an option to consider but not in HIV patients.
Study says pot users have more sex

Pot users have about 20 percent more sex than those who do not use it.
5 ways marijuana or weed can affect your life

Health effects aside, marijuana can also impact your life in profound ways.
7 horrible things marijuana or weed does to your health

Potheads, rethink your love for weed for the sake of your health.
Smoking Marijuana can affect the way you walk

Those who smoke cannabis tend to move their shoulders less and elbows more as they walk.
Treatment with marijuana compound can reverse memory loss

With increasing age, the quantity of the cannabinoids naturally formed in the brain reduces. When the activity of the cannabinoid system declines, we find rapid ageing in the brain.
Smoking pot raises risk of stroke, heart failure

Marijuana use may lead to 26 per cent increase in the risk of stroke and a 10 per cent increase in the risk of developing heart failure.
Can marijuana laced chewing gum treat irritable bowel syndrome?

It may also reduce painful stomach cramps, control bloating and normalize stool.
Early use of weed makes you dumb

Marijuana is the most commonly used illegal substance in the world. The findings showed that participants who started using marijuana from early in life had highly abnormal brain function.
Mothers' exposure to marijuana may harm foetus' growth

Mothers' exposure to cannabinoid,a compound found in marijuana may affect the development of babies in the womb.
Marijuana may improve night vision

Research has found that cannabinoids, an active agent in marijuana, may improve low-light vision.
Here's what happens when you take weed, cocaine, LSD, charas, meth or heroin

Here's how long drugs like weed, LSD, meth, heroin, hash/charas and cocaine stay in the body and their side-effects.
A minute of secondhand weed smoke may damage blood vessels

Inhaling weed smoke for even a minute can cause considerable damage.
Marijuana hijacks your brains reward system!

Research says that smoking weed may dampen your brain's response to reward over time.
Study says using marijuana for a long time can disrupt brain's reward process

Researchers have demonstrated that long-term marijuana use can disrupt the brain's natural reward processes.
5 reasons why you shouldn’t smoke marijuana (weed)

Think twice before puffing that marijuana joint. Studies have found that, despite marijuana's medicinal properties, it can have side-effects too.
You can soon legally vape marijuana, but for medical purposes only
Marijuana in first 20 weeks of gestation increases risk of pre-term birth by five times

Having marijuana through to 20 weeks' gestation can trigger a five-fold increase in the risk of pre-term birth, Australian researchers have warned. '
Signs that your child is smoking or taking drugs

If you are a parent of a teenage child, then this is a MUST READ for you.
Smoking pot can damage your brain in the longrun: Study

Marijuana can affect your brain's ability to produce a hormone called dopamine, which is also known as the 'feel good' hormone.