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Currently, students can obtain condoms directly from the school's Teen Health Center (THC)--an on-campus branch of Cambridge Hospital. For any other types of contraceptives, however, they must obtain prescriptions which can only be filled at a city pharmacy...
...combination with other drugs. "Cannabis is the drug that teaches our kids what other drugs are all about," says Charlie Stowell, the DEA's cannabis coordinator in California. He says today's marijuana is considerably more potent and expensive than the pot of the '60s because the amount of THC -- the ingredient that provides the high -- has risen from...
Israeli researchers have found a brain chemical called anandamide that is chemically similar to THC, the active ingredient in marijuana, and binds to the same receptors on nerve cells. They hope it can lead to drugs that have pot's medically valuable qualities -- it controls pain, stimulates appetite and reduces nausea -- without getting patients high...
...federal government understands this too, and in 1985 made available by prescription a synthetic version of THC, the active ingredient in pot. What's at issue now is the right of doctors to prescribe marijuana in smoked form. So. you may ask, if there's a pill that's just as good, why do those nasty, smelly little cigarettes need to be legal...
Numerous scientifically valid studies have shown that marijuana in smoked form can be more medically effective than purified THC. Most recently, a 1988 study in The New York State Journal of Medicine showed that 29 percent of those who did not respond to oral THC did respond to smoked marijuana...