A team from Hungary has conducted research into marijuana and established a link between the drug and asthma which could help develop new treatments for respiratory-related illnesses.

Back in the mid-1970s US professor Donald P Taskin found that "recent studies demonstrated significant, acute bronchodilation in healthy young men after they smoked marijuana".

Now research in Hungary, Italy and the US indicates that while some asthma sufferers are prone to coughing when exposed to elements of the drug, others seem to be less affected by such irritation when lung muscles are tensed.

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Drug dealing and narcotics consumption in Hungary has been the topic of many reports in the media in recent times.

Such reports are never welcomed by the Government, even if the reports feature the capture of criminals, because they highlight the growing trend in illegal activities at, excuse the pun, the grass roots level.

Prime Minister Orban once said, "Hungary is no longer a country struggling with the problems of a change in regime. It is a country and society very similar to today's Western European countries." This has its good points and bad points.

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