America's Dance With Mary Jane
retrospectacle | April 9, 2007
Some guy was arrested this past Wednesday for trying to smuggle pot in an Easter Bunny. The stuffed bunny wabbit was stuffed with more than plush, it was also packing 16.6 grams of weed. The owner of said bunny was pulled over after running a red light, then searched the car
because an "overwhelming" scent of marijuana was coming from the vehicle, the report says.
Dupont found the bunny on the passenger floor. Inside the bunny's front pouch were 16 small bags of marijuana. Dupont said the marijuana appeared to be packaged for sale, the report says.
Lawrence, who is wearing a DARE T-shirt in…
retrospectacle | August 3, 2006According to a recent study, reported on in Forbes magazine, the chemicals in marijuana may prevent pregnancy by making it difficult for a fertilized egg to implant in the uterus.
Dey, the Dorothy Overall Wells professor of pediatrics, cell and developmental biology and pharmacology at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, and his colleagues conducted their experiments in mice. It's known that marijuana, the most widely used illegal drug among women of childbearing age, binds to two receptors, called cannabinoid receptors 1 and 2 (CB1 and 2). These receptors are found in the brain and also in…