And in the north opium cultivation is also down, although many farmers have simply planted cannabis instead of poppy.
However, there is no firm evidence that cannabis or THC can stunt, impair or damage a baby or their growth.
In Japan the number of arrests for domestic cannabis cultivation increased by 17% in 2009, whereas the number of arrests for importing fell by almost half.
A66- year-old British grandmother with a taste for marijuana casserole was spared jail despite admitting she had shared cannabis-laced cookies with fellow pensioners.
RICHARD LEE, a marijuana entrepreneur, has in recent years turned part of Oakland into the cannabis capital of California and perhaps the world.
Heavy cannabis users can exhibit long-lasting toxic psychosis involving delusions and hallucinations that can be incorrectly - and dangerously - diagnosed as a schizophrenic illness.
Nowadays, vending machines can stock a range of goods, with anything from food including stone-baked pizzas and ice cream to truly bizarre items like medicinal cannabis and even gold bullion.
According gto the BBC report, Matthews, a black belt in karate and a cannabis user, said he did not think the incident had been bad enough to cause the injuries.
There is essentially little to no risk of overdosing on cannabis. You would need to ingest a massive amount (thousands of times the amount needed to get high) for the dose to be fatal.
When I was at university I would occasionally have some cannabis, but I don't think I ever determined what being stoned felt like, because I never had any when I was sober.
