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To: paret who wrote (717929)	12/12/2005 3:02:49 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Respond to of 769670

"is expected to have implications for the use of drugs derived from cannabis." LOL! I doubt it! Diabetes (or her pneumonia) are far more likely the causative factors here in her 'kidney failure' then a simple extract from an exceeding safe (medically speaking) natural herb. "...diabetic neuropathy sufferer...." "...pneumonia which culminated in her death five months later."

To: paret who wrote (717929)	12/12/2005 3:10:38 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Can popping a pill curb all your cravings? * 10 December 2005 * Diane Martindale * Magazine issue 2529 A pill that helps see off your flab and kick your bad habits is surely too good to be true. We'll know soon enough... IT STARTED with a spliff. Back in the 1960s, psychologists studying the effects of cannabis on short-term memory noticed that the subjects couldn't keep their hands off the free marshmallows. What the researchers were seeing was confirmation of a well-known side effect of smoking cannabis - intense hunger pangs known as the munchies. Fast-forward 40 years, and scientists are talking about the munchies again, albeit in a rather different way. Early next year, if everything goes to plan, French pharmaceutical company Sanofi-Aventis will start selling a drug designed to induce the "anti-munchies". Rimonabant taps into the same brain circuits as cannabis, but instead of turning them on, it turns them off. If what has been made public from the clinical trials is anything to go by, rimonabant has almost miraculous powers, helping people to control their appetites, shrink their waistlines and banish many of the metabolic problems associated with being ... The complete article is 2434 words long. newscientist.com