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Modern Marijuana Is Often Laced With Heavy Metals and Fungus
Medical and recreational marijuana use is increasingly legal—but do consumers know what they’re smoking?
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Denver Police Stoke a New Halloween Fear—Pot-Laced Candy
You really think people are going to give marijuana away?
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Pot Smokers’ Brains Are Different
But we can’t say for sure whether it’s pot that made them that way
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Give Rats THC, And Their Kids’ Brains Look Different
The progeny of rats that were exposed to marijuana show some differences
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A Scientific Explanation of How Marijuana Causes the Munchies
THC appears to increase our sensitivity to scents and flavors by using naturally occurring neural networks to convince the brain that it’s starving
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