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Marijuana is the most frequently consumed illicit drug worldwide. With increasing numbers of people using cannabis both medically and recreationally there are many looming questions that only science can answer. These include: What's likely to happen, both good and bad, if the US legalizes marijuana?; What are some simple, science-based rules to separate fact from fiction and to help guide policy in the highly contentious marijuana debate?; Exactly what is cannabis doing in the brain that gets us high?; Does cannabis really have medical benefits?; To what extent does cannabis impair driving?; Can smoking marijuana in adolescence affect IQ or risk for developing schizophrenia?; And is marijuana safe to use during pregnancy? These wide-ranging questions and many more are answered in "Weed Science: Cannabis Controversies and Challenges". -- From publisher's description.

Marijuana. --- Marijuana --- Therapeutic use. --- Government policy. --- Ganja --- Marihuana --- Weed (Marijuana) --- Cannabis --- Medical marijuana

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The federal Controlled Substances Act (CSA) outlaws the possession, cultivation, or distribution of marijuana except for authorized research. Twenty states have regulatory schemes that allow possession, cultivation, or distribution of marijuana for medicinal purposes. Two have revenue regimes that allow possession, cultivation, or sale generally. The U.S. Constitution's Supremacy Clause preempts any state law that conflicts with federal law. Although there is some division, the majority of state courts have concluded that the federal-state marijuana law conflict does not require preemption of

Marijuana. --- Marijuana --- Therapeutic use --- Law and legislation --- Taxation

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Cannabis --- Drug Therapy --- Marijuana --- Physiological effect --- Psychological aspects --- Cannabis - Physiological effect --- Marijuana - Psychological aspects --- Marijuana - Physiological effect

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Historian Isaac Campos combines wide-ranging archival research with the latest scholarship on the social and cultural dimensions of drug-related behavior in this telling of marijuana's remarkable history in Mexico. Introduced in the sixteenth century by the Spanish, cannabis came to Mexico as an industrial fiber and symbol of European empire. But, Campos demonstrates, as it gradually spread to indigenous pharmacopoeias, then prisons and soldiers' barracks, it took on both a Mexican name--marijuana--and identity as a quintessentially ""Mexican"" drug. A century ago, Mexicans believed that marij

Drug control --- Drug traffic --- Marijuana --- Ganja --- Marihuana --- Weed (Marijuana) --- Cannabis --- Drogues --- Lutte antidrogue --- Trafic

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Marijuana --- Drug legalization --- Ganja --- Marihuana --- Weed (Marijuana) --- Cannabis --- Law and legislation