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TORONTO(CP)
The use of marijuana has grown at a faster pace than other stimulants such a alcohol and pep pills, an annual survey by the Addiction Research Foundation of Ontario shows. The survey released this week shows marijuana use has increased to 8.6 per cent from the 5.8 per cent last year based on a survey of 1.059 adults over 18 years and an additional 100 males, aged 18to 20.
Monkeys build drug tolerance
GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP)
Monkeys quickly build up a tolerance to marijuana so that even massive doses have little effect on their co-ordination, and the same effect could be expected in human smokers, says a University of Florida researcher. Marc Branch, a psychology professor, is in the fourth year of experiments with monkeys. He injects some with THC, the active chemical ingredient in marijuana, and compares their ability to perform simple tasks with undrugged monkeys.
Alberta’s strange justice
Bob McKee
It must be strange kind of justice being handed out in Alberta courts when statistics show this province imposes the hardest sentences in Canada for marijuana possession. If the most recent available statistics from the Federal Department of Health and Welfare are to relied on, the number of discharges relating to drug offences in Alberta fall far behind those of other provinces. In a half-hearted effort to decriminalize current marijuana laws the federal government brought in 1972 an amendment to the criminal code giving the judiciary discretionary powers relating to first-time drug offenders.
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