Health Care

Medical Marijuana Accessories

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I’m not sure why this is being reported as something new as these vaporizors (R) have been available for quite a few years:

The biggest hit on the medical marijuana scene could soon be a high-tech gizmo that lets people inhale the drug but skip the smoke.
The device is a marijuana vaporizer. One version looks like a metallic volcano and sells for more than $500. Its creator calls it “the Mercedes-Benz of vaporizers.”
By heating marijuana to a point where vapors are formed but before combustion, a vaporizer is free of many of the toxins found in marijuana smoke, advocates say.
“You don’t have the harshness you get from smoking, no next-morning cough, no shortness of breath,” said Kathy Gagne, a 56-year-old Oakland resident who began vaporizing marijuana five years ago to treat her depression.

These are probably pretty popular with the non-cigarette smoking ganja users and as you can see at this California Norml information page there are a wide variety of vaporizers available.

About Those Sugars You Are Eating

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Don’t:

I take a couple of nuts as Kenyon instantly shifts the topic — she does that often — and explains to me that she has totally changed her diet, eliminating most sugars, including those found in processed flour. Hence the peanuts. An experiment with her tiny worms is responsible, she says; that experiment proved that sugar switches on a genetic sequence that increases the amount of insulin produced by an organism, which in turn causes the body to demand more sugar. This not only adds flab to the waistline, if worms had a waistline, but also increases damage to cells in the body, speeding up the slow degradation of cells that contributes to aging.

Via Steeph.