The Politics Of Drug Use

Critics of marijuana have been taking a lot of hits over the past few weeks, and new information lauding the benefits of the drug might have them toking, err, taking a few more.

First it was a University of Saskatchewan study that claimed mary jane could be good for your brain.

"Chronic use of marijuana may actually improve learning memory when the new neurons in the hippocampus can mature in two or three months," said researcher Xia Zhang. Did that dude just say neurons in the hippocampus? What's he smokin,' man?

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