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Smoking a joint or a bowl from time to time appears to cause no long-term damage to the lungs, according to a UCSF study that disproves one of the major concerns about marijuana use - that inhaling anything other than air on a regular basis must be harmful.

The latest update to the annual Monitoring the Future survey of drug use in American youth bears mainly good news, at least if your interest is in reducing drug-related harm: both teen drinking and cigarette smoking are at historic lows; in fact, past-month marijuana use is now more commonly reported by high school seniors than smoking cigarettes.

Bhutan police can raid homes of smokers in a search for contraband tobacco and are training a special tobacco sniffer dog in a crackdown to honor a promise to become the world's first smoke-free nation.

The following is a story that came about as a result of an interview I did with a reporter from the Maple Ridge News regarding the tobacco prohibition policy in Fraser Regional Correctional Center – the jail I recently emerged from after doing 4 months for herbal offenses. Below that is a link to anRead More

A couple months ago there was news story about the glue cigarette manufacturers are now putting in cigarettes to reduce the risk of fire. When I first learned about it I was very upset because there was no outreach to consumers to get our input or, as far as I know, any effort to alert us beforehand. Maybe I missed it.

Their biggest concerns are alcohol and cannabis despite the fact that as many kids smoke tobacco as marijuana and tobacco is markedly more addictive and dangerous.
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