io9 
Enter your username and password.
-
more about #marijuana more comments → gorehound: I have smoked pot sincve sept.1968 and i am pissed off that you can go and drink yourself to death but you can not have legal pot. FUCK YOU USA !!!! more » Invisible-Echidna: But it hurts sooooo good. more » Bender is my hero!: Having conducted years and years of "personal research" on this matter, I can attest that this is probably true. THC has vast potential and provides ... more » J_Frank_Parnell: Does this mean I can still get high? more » Sabbatai: I am concerned that this study would even induce thoughts of using it's resulting applications in the manners described. On a side note, Marijuana ha... more » I Think We're Property: Using drugs or chemicals to inflict pain wouldn't be classified as any more "humane" than waterboarding, which also technically avoids inflicting any ... more » RandomFrequentFlierDent: The link doesn’t take me directly to the paper. Why are you not enabling my laziness? more » Kakkoister: Shame on io9 for publishing this story. It's such a pointless study. And posting about it only harms views on Marijuana more. Because of the large per... more » prettycool: i have no balls. i can haz your weedz? more » Gann: As a counterpoint to this article, Marijuana has been shown to cut the growth of lung cancer in half: [www.sciencedaily.com] more » jbq: Drugs drugs drugs. Unless those drugs give me superpowers of immortality, and not just in my head, you can keep them, says I. What the hell is wrong w... more » EdinaSabiha: Really, this is disappointing, that i09, a site about science fiction, is propagating Propaganda about Marijuana, saying that ectasy isnt harmful and ... more » BobbinBrain: These kind of drugs should have never introduce to everyone as something "recreational" in the first place. They just f**k you up mentally, psychologi... more » BadUncle: And, owing to our anti-scientific drug policy, the efficacy of E as a controlled psychiatric drug has gone without research since the drug's brief leg... more » Rasselas: "Drugs are bad because if you do drugs, you're a hippie. And hippies suck." more » -
#madscience
The Mysterious Chemical That Eases Pain, But Also Causes It
Endocannabinoids are the body's natural form of THC, a chemical in marijuana that can ease pain. Now a new study shows this chemical is a double-edged sword, making people more sensitive to pain too. Could endocannabinoids be used for torture?
More »
-
#drugs
New Studies Link Cancer To Pot And... Nothing, Really To Ecstasy
It's good news/bad news when it comes to recreational drug news. New studies show that the long-term effects of Ecstasy aren't as bad as suspected... but smoking pot might lead to testicular cancer. More »
