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Marijuana has had a historic decade of legal victories for both medical and personal consumption. As of 2019, in some form or another, whether it be unfettered access for recreational use or for use under strict medical guidelines.

With over half of the country having the ability to partake in marijuana legally, many people who have never tried it before obviously have plenty of questions regarding the positive and negative effects of cannabis. Cannabis is an incredibly versatile, complex plant that can offer up a wide variety of different experiences based on how it is consumed, how much of it is consumed, and what type of it is consumed. Knowing the difference can be the deciding factor of whether a first-time user has an enjoyable time, or has a less-than pleasurable experience.

Different Methods Of Consumption

One of the easiest ways of controlling the experience one has with marijuana is through deciding which way it enters the body. The different methods…

Miriam Mannak

CAPE TOWN, Mar 7 2008 (IPS) – A discussion about anaesthesiology and anaesthesiologists is something that could bring on drowsiness, even sleep Until, that is, the talk turns to shortages of anaesthesiologists in Africa and how this can increase surgical mortality. Statistics on this matter are frightening enough to keep anyone awake.
The lack of these specialists was one of the issues that came under discussion this week during the 14th World Congress of Anaesthesiologists, which took place in Cape Town, South Africa. The Mar. 2-7 event was organised by the World Federation of Societies of Anaesthesiologists (WFSA), which focuses in part on improving the level of anaesthesiology in developing countries.

According to the WFSA Manpower Taskforce, which evaluates the number of anaesthesiologists in countries worldwide, Africa is hardest hit by shortages of the specialists.

Zambia, for instance, has one registered anaesthesiologist per three mi…

Vusumuzi Sifile

HARARE, Jan 15 2010 (IPS) – Eleven-year-old Memory s grandmother wanted her to drop out of school because she is not going to live long enough to complete her studies. And the ridicule and stigma Memory endures at school because of her HIV status does not make her education seem worthwhile. Especially since this ridicule comes from her teacher.

In some Zimbabwean schools students are not allowed to speak openly about HIV/AIDS or condoms. Credit: IRIN

In a country where aids agencies estimate 120,000 children are HIV-positive, school teachers are finding themselves increasingly in the frontline of the epidemic.

The Natio…

Marwaan Macan-Markar

BANGKOK, Sep 20 2010 (IPS) – Cambodia s partial success in reducing child mortality rates has exposed a fault line of inequity, one that underscores the advantage that the country s urban population has had over the rural poor.
Yet the South-east Asian kingdom, 35 percent of whose 14 million population live below the poverty line, is not alone in having this mixed record of reducing child mortality, say child rights experts.

Some of the other countries in the region reflect a similar trend 10 years after world leaders committed to meet a set of eight targets to help the world s poor by 2015. The fourth of the eight U.N. Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) seeks to achieve a two-thirds reduction in child mortality rates by 2015.

To be fair to governments in South-east Asia, child mortality rates are going down everywhere, said Ben Phillips, director of strategy at the Asia office of Save the Children, a British-based humanitarian organ…