Marijuana Smoking
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Cannabis, tobacco and domestic fumes intake are associated with nasopharyngeal carcinoma in North Africa.

30 Aug 2009 BACKGROUND: The lifestyle risk factors for nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) in North Africa are not known. METHODS: From 2002 to 2005, we interviewed 636 patients and 615 controls from Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia, frequency-matched by centre, age, ... Read more...

Acute inferior myocardial infarction due to cannabis smoking in a young man.

30 Aug 2009 Cannabis smoking, which has euphoric effects, is consistently increasing in Europe. Smoking cannabis is a rare trigger of acute myocardial infarction (MI) by inducing coronary artery spasm. Some cases who have thrombus formation in acute coronary ... Read more...

Effectiveness of a marijuana expectancy manipulation: Piloting the balanced-placebo design for marijuana.

30 Jul 2009 Although alcohol and nicotine administration studies have demonstrated that manipulating subjects' expectancies regarding drug content affects drug response, research with marijuana has not adequately studied drug expectancy effects. The present ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Marijuana Smoking'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Medical marijuana: informational resources for family physicians. 13 Oct 2009
• Is it time to consider cannabis smoking a cardiovascular risk factor? 29 Sep 2009
• How pot became legal. 26 Sep 2009
• Cannabis, tobacco and domestic fumes intake are associated with nasopharyngeal carcinoma in North Africa. 30 Aug 2009
• Acute inferior myocardial infarction due to cannabis smoking in a young man. 30 Aug 2009
• Taking the spice out of legal smoking mixtures. 20 Aug 2009
• Effectiveness of a marijuana expectancy manipulation: Piloting the balanced-placebo design for marijuana. 30 Jul 2009
• Anxious arousal and anhedonic depression symptoms and the frequency of current marijuana use: testing the mediating role of marijuana-use coping motives among active users. 29 Jun 2009
• Project ALERT: a cluster randomized trial. 29 Jun 2009
• Chronic toxicology of cannabis. 29 Jun 2009
• [Diffuse alveolar hemorrhage in a cannabis smoker] 18 Jun 2009
• Probable interaction between warfarin and marijuana smoking. 14 Jun 2009
• Evaluation of the DNA damaging potential of cannabis cigarette smoke by the determination of acetaldehyde derived N2-ethyl-2'-deoxyguanosine adducts. 30 May 2009
• The role of temperament in the relationship between early onset of tobacco and cannabis use: the TRAILS study. 28 May 2009
• Behavioral problems and the occurrence of tobacco, cannabis, and coca paste smoking in Chile: evidence based on multivariate response models for school survey data. 12 May 2009
• Does delay discounting play an etiological role in smoking or is it a consequence of smoking? 12 May 2009
• Comparison of subjective, pharmacokinetic, and physiological effects of marijuana smoked as joints and blunts. 12 May 2009
• The challenges in developing a rational cannabis policy. 29 Apr 2009
• A finer examination of the role that negative affect plays in the relationship between paternal alcoholism and the onset of alcohol and marijuana use. 29 Apr 2009
• Marijuana primes, marijuana expectancies, and arithmetic efficiency. 29 Apr 2009

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Technical information about 'Marijuana Smoking'

Definition: Inhaling and exhaling the smoke from CANNABIS.

Descriptor UI: D008385

Alternative terms: Marijuana Smoking; Smoking, Marijuana; Marihuana Smoking; Smoking, Marihuana; Cannabis Smoking; Smoking, Cannabis; Hashish Smoking; Smoking, Hashish;

Allowable Qualifiers: adverse effects; blood; cerebrospinal fluid; drug therapy; economics; epidemiology; ethnology; genetics; history; immunology; legislation & jurisprudence; metabolism; mortality; pathology; physiopathology; prevention & control; psychology; therapy; trends; urine;

Tree Number: F01.145.466.753.488;

History Note: 88

Technical Notes: consider also MARIJUANA ABUSE