Month: November 2005

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Study says THC reduces cancer risk

Super User November 2, 2005 Super User

In an interview with Reuters, Melamede explained that while nicotine has several effects that promote lung and other types of cancer, THC acts in ways that counters the cancer-causing chemicals in marijuana smoke. "THC turns down the carcinogenic potential," he said. Melamede reviewed the scientific evidence in a recent issue of Harm Reduction Journal.

Lab research indicates that nicotine activates an enzyme in the body that converts certain chemicals in both tobacco and marijuana smoke into cancer-promoting form. But studies in mice suggest that THC blocks this enzyme activity. read more

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An Unreasonable Woman

Rob Williams November 2, 2005 Rob Williams

Diane Wilson
Our mainstream press is fond of celebrating the world's great heroes. You know, people (mostly men) who make the time to cross the globe solo in a hot air balloon (Go Steve Forbes), or hit more home runs in a single year than anyone else (Where have you gone, Joe Dimaggio?), or make more money in a single year than any other family on the planet (Thanks, Wal-Mart Waltons!).

But what about ordinary folks who do something extra-ordinary? Those who get out of bed in the morning and go to work, while simultaneously managing to raise children, those who discover that the world doesn't look quite right from the front porch or the wooden comfort of the Adirondack chair?

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Forestry in Chile and the Myth of the Trickledown Theory

Gary Graham Hughes November 1, 2005 Gary Graham Hughes

Two years ago, in early November 2003, after a ferocious markets-based campaign in the US, an agreement was signed by US and Chilean environmental groups with the two largest wood products companies in Chile. The agreement, facilitated by Home Depot, was received as an important step forward in promoting collaborative resolution to international environmental conflicts. The agreements language binds the companies to a conservation focused solutions process with the environmental groups, and an end to the practice of the substitution of the native forest with exotic tree species plantations.