Marijuana has proven to be much safer than implied scientists. Cannabis 114 times safer than alcohol, said data international medical research.

The scale of the study researchers have verified that alcohol tops the list of the most deadly substances, followed in the footsteps of heroin, cocaine, cigarettes, and just then - other drugs: ecstasy and methamphetamine, reports the Daily Mail. Scientists have not witnessed cases of severe overdose of marijuana.

Marijuana or cannabis is a psychoactive agent, derived from hemp. Effects on the body on this planet connected with contained in the cannabis psychoactive drugs (cannabinoids), the incumbent of which is Delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol. Experts differ in 3 main forms of cannabis: Cannabis sativa, Cannabis indica and Cannabis ruderalis, with all this last is the shortest amount of tetrahydrocannabinol.

In the U.S., despite the fact that Federal laws consider marijuana as the drug group 1, its use for medical purposes in 1996 was legalized or decriminalized in 21 States and the district of Columbia.

But to buy marijuana in pharmacies dispensing medical prescriptions only 8 States - Arizona, California, Colorado, Michigan, Montana, Maine, new Mexico, Rhode island. From January 2014 the cultivation, purchase, marijuana use limited to recreational purposes legalized in 2 States - Washington and Colorado. In these States, marijuana was legalized in the referenda held in a single election day November 6, 2012.
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