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...kill you? No one has ever died of THC poisoning, mostly because a 160-lb. person would have to smoke roughly 900 joints in a sitting to reach a lethal dose. (No doubt some have tried.) But that doesn't mean pot can't contribute to serious health problems and even DEAth--both indirectly (driving while stoned, for instance) and directly (by affecting circulation, for example). A paper published last year in the journal Angiology found 10 odd cases in France of heavy herbe smokers who developed ischemia (an insufficient blood supply) in their limbs, leading in four cases...
Such problems appeared in only "a small portion of the patients in our clinical trials," says Dr. Hjalmar Lagast, a vice president for Solvay Pharmaceuticals, which makes Marinol. He notes that the drug comes in three strengths, allowing doctors to pick the right dose. By the early '90s, at the height of the U.S. aids epidemic, many patients so preferred marijuana to Marinol that they would use the street drug regardless of legality or safety. Abrams and a few others began pushing the government to permit new studies of marijuana to find out what these patients were doing to themselves...
...death tourists," terminally ill people who come to Zurich to take their own lives. Eckstein is a member of Dignitas, a controversial Zurich-based organization that offers assisted suicide to people suffering from incurable conditions. Dignitas rents an apartment in the city where clients self-administer a fatal dose of barbiturates and slowly fade away while listening to their favorite music. "These people are like the ones who jumped from the World Trade Center on Sept. 11," says Ludwig Minelli, Dignitas' director. "They want to be spared terrible pain and suffering. Helping them is a very humane thing." Not everyone...
...adventure of his life. But if air-conditioned theaters couldn’t coax kids out over the summer for TV show-based movies like The Powerpuff Girls and Hey Arnold! The Movie, it’s dubious how Jonah will fare on the big screen despite its generous dose of CGI effects and its, well, motivational subject matter...
...Brechtian labor musical” about unionization in early 20th-century Steeltown, USA, directed by Patrick Hosfield ’05. Think Newsies, minus Disney, Christian Bale and that obnoxious “Seize the Day” song, but with a considerably more punchy and heart-wrenching dose of social commentary. Still frighteningly relevant today, Cradle Will Rock will take over the Ex, promising a healthy dose of T-Day humility...