Thursday, January 13, 2011
'National Geographic' debuts 'Drugged: High on Marijuana' Sunday
Health & Medicine David Downs — Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 11:22 AM
Take a CGI tour of the human body whilst it smokes the reefer in new National Geographic special Drugged: High on Marijuana, airing this Sunday, January 16, at 8 p.m. ET/PT. "Most medicines that doctors prescribe, there’s a lot of side effects, there’s a lot of risk and you have to balance out the risk benefit ratio, but with cannabis it’s very much non-toxic," friend of LN and author of The Pot Book Dr. Julie Holland tells NatGeo in the special. Video after the jump.
From NatGeo:
"In the last year, 28 million Americans have rolled a joint, smoked a pipe, sparked up a bong or eaten a pot brownie. Now, follow an entire marijuana high in an adult from start to finish, beginning with the inhalation of cannabis smoke. Using vivid CGI, see how the chemicals slip through a stoned subject’s membranes lining the lungs and into the bloodstream, then on to the heart, up the spine and into the brain. Find out why users get red eyes and the so-called munchies, and explore the difference in the body when cannabis is eaten rather than smoked. We’ll see what role genetics might play in a person’s response to cannabis, take a look at the mysteries of why a high sometimes turns to a low and learn more from the forefront of current marijuana research."
Video “How Marijuana Works” — What exactly happens to your body when you smoke marijuana?
Drugged: High on Marijuana is part of a series also profiling cocaine, and ecstacy — but not alcohol, even though it's among the most toxic drugs on the planet. In California, roughly 3,500 people will die each year from alcohol-related illness and there will be more than 109,000 alcohol-related injuries. Conversely, pot caused 181 emergency room visits in 2008, according to a study by the non-partisan RAND Corporation, mostly from people passing out due to low blood pressure. Watch the video to learn why.
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Seriously? National Geographic is a pawn of the illuminati and hemp oil cures cancer? Are you some kind of permanently stoned, disillusioned youth who has to blame a simple study on marijuana on an organization that may not even exist? Get a life, grow up, and open your eyes. National Geographic has always been about people and about the world, the program isn't an attack on marijuana, simply a study into the full effects of it.
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cancer is a fungus ..baking soda will cure cancer... asprin killed 500 folks last year... there is nothing you say that convinces us that hemp is bad for you.. you are just pawns of the drug companies disinforming us... i know what the truth is and N.G. is a pawn of the illuinati.. your magazine is like the enquirer now and the rest of the tabliods.. you are following an agenda of the elite ..9/11 was an inside job .. hemp oil cures cancer
Are you hooked on Humboldt's finest? There is a cure, and it's awesome: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glm97au0b_Q
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