(n.) A genus of a single species belonging to the order Uricaceae; hemp.
Example Sentences:
(1) In the US where laws over the use of cannabis or possession of class-A drugs can be wildly different between states, it also made it easier to hide from the law.
(2) In Norway, the use of cannabis was introduced by a resourceful group of oppositional middle-class adolescents in the late 1960s.
(3) The Met said officers would be told to focus less on stopping people for small amounts of cannabis, and instead focus on those suspected of violent offences and carrying weapons.
(4) The effects were assessed of delta'THC (the psychoactive component of cannabis) and CBD and DMHP-CBD (the non-psychomimetic components of marijuana derivatives) on 14C labelled serotonin release from normal platelets, when incubated with patient's plasma obtained during migraine attack.
(5) Say Why To Drugs – the highs and lows of cannabis Read more One option the scientists propose is to boost levels of CBD in high potency cannabis, so that users can get their hit without being at such risk of mental harm.
(6) In another example, Colorado legislators this month had to pass a new state law to allow for a cannabis co-operative credit union that would let marijuana businesses open bank accounts and escape the murky world of cash-only transactions.
(7) The popular concept of "marihuana" is actually based on the chemical characteristics of the plant Cannabis, rather than on the taxonomic classification.
(8) The Police Foundation report said that the penalties for possession of cannabis - among the harshest in Europe - do more damage than the drug itself and called for a reclassification of drug offences.
(9) Professor David Nutt, director of the neuropsychopharmacology unit at Imperial College, London, and former chairman of the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs , said the report provided strong evidence "that the costs of the current punitive approaches to cannabis control are massively disproportionate to the harms of the drug, and shows that more sensible approaches would provide significant financial benefits to the UK as well as reducing social exclusion and injustice".
(10) The report claims 30,000 people in the UK use cannabis as a medicine, but adds that the figure could be as high as 1 million, according to the campaign group End Our Pain .
(11) Uruguay is trying to bring the cannabis market under state control by undercutting and outlawing the traffickers.
(12) The move has been interpreted as a shift towards the effective decriminalisation of cannabis.
(13) After fronting a piece on a medical marijuana club , she told viewers : “I – the actual owner of the Alaska Cannabis Club – will be dedicating all of my energy for fighting for freedom and fairness, which begins with legalising marijuana here in Alaska.
(14) THC (tetrahydrocannabinol) is the main psychoactive ingredient of the cannabis plant.
(15) There is a growing body of research that shows the medical properties of chemical components of cannabis.
(16) They cause an effect similar in some ways to cannabis – but are many times more potent, and the effects are hugely unpredictable.
(17) The reports regarding cannabis dependence among cocaine dependents are few and inconclusive.
(18) Breathes has been smoking cannabis for more than half his life, but he has no nostalgia for the old days, no regrets about the industry becoming commercialised.
(19) Last week the local paper carried stories about a former teacher charged with running a prostitution ring and a house exposed as a major cannabis farm.
(20) At the meeting Hogg confirmed rumours that Durham police were no longer actively working to detect small-scale cannabis growers and users, said John Holiday, a local activist.
Stoner
Definition:
(n.) One who stones; one who makes an assault with stones.
(n.) One who walls with stones.
Example Sentences:
(1) If this is what 70s stoners were laughing at, it feels like they’ve already become acquiescent, passive parts of media-relayed consumer society; precursors of the cathode-ray-frazzled pop-culture exegetists of Tarantino and Kevin Smith in the 90s.
(2) Hale-Stoner mice (6 to 8 weeks old) were injected with 7 X 10(5) CFU of Candida albicans 336 isolated from a patient.
(3) The relationship between free and bound tryptophan in samples of rat plasma (Stoner et al., 1975) is discussed in terms of a similar but limited study of rat albumin.
(4) Doctor Brown In 2011, the American Phil Burgers (AKA bearded silent comic Doctor Brown) performed the funniest comedy show on the fringe : a sexy, stoner clown show that delighted, intrigued and molested its audience.
(5) Smoke weed every day!” And in movies, Snoop’s been happy to play to his stoner persona, both in the pro-weed documentary The Culture High and as Huggy Bear in 2004’s Starsky and Hutch , where he displays an encyclopedic knowledge of actual grass varieties on a golf course.
(6) If you make a good one with Anna Faris in it …" It might not have made any awards shortlists, but it must be admitted, Smiley Face contains some hilarious moments, one of which is a parody of Jane Fonda's rousing speech to the factory workers in Jean-Luc Godard's Tout Va Bien – how many stoner movies can you say that about?
(7) Photograph: Rex Shutterstock Suggested by escapeclause and Mel Gravelrash Luxton The classic rebellious misfit teen, Jeff Spicoli (Sean Penn) from 80s flick Fast Times at Ridgemont High is, as stated by user escapeclause, “surely a deserving number-one screen stoner”.
(8) Suggested by SirRoystenMerchant This 90s stoner comedy, the brainchild of rapper Ice Cube, stars Chris Tucker as Smokey, a pothead who sells (or, in reality, smokes) weed on behalf of Big Worm, the local dealer.
(9) Unlike the young stoner stereotype, Cullen said, “our average customer is a business professional, and the vast majority are middle-aged folks with disposable income”.
(10) Photograph: Rex Shutterstock Suggested by Caligula , thinknot and drewtox One of Brad Pitt’s more minor but memorable roles is as the couch-bound stoner Floyd in Tarantino classic True Romance .
(11) QIND correlated significantly with the severity of disease according to the sepsis score of Elebute and Stoner (r = 0.763, P less than 0.005).
(12) Set in New York, it sees skint stoners Abbi Jacobson (neurotic) and Ilana Glazer (filthy) make the most mundane parts of their everyday lives into one of the best online comedies out there.
(13) Mostly, he makes only partial sense, but he sums up the already-nostalgic mood of the film, set in the last days of 1969, when he complains: “They’re selling hippie wigs in Woolworths, man.” 7 | Carl Spackler … from Caddyshack Facebook Twitter Pinterest Amazing stuff: Bill Murray as stoner greenskeeper Carl Spackler in Caddyshack.
(14) Such tipping movement in the absence of the adjacent tooth depends not only upon the magnitude of orthodontic force as classified into Stoner 4D, but also upon the condition of the extracted wounds.
(15) Either way, his novel The Savage Detectives – typically considered his masterpiece – can be seen as a modest contribution to stoner literature.
(16) It’s been a while since we had such a heavy-duty concentration of stoner humour in a film by a serious artist.
(17) The costumes are also about us not wanting to be in the limelight.” The musicians shrouded behind Goat’s tall tales and masks might look like they have something to hide, but the pantomime serves to convey the band’s intriguing philosophy more effectively than if they were to reveal themselves as just a bunch of stoners from Gothenburg.
(18) Punk rock lives on through a network of leathery stoners and their dogs.
(19) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Cheech and Chong in Up in Smoke The idea that the genre could have greater aspirations is only a surprise because we’ve become used to stoner characters as affable, harmless, bong-toting jesters awesomely out of kilter with the adult world: Cheech and Chong, Floyd from True Romance , Jay and Silent Bob, Harold and Kumar.
(20) While the NSW government has expanded its assistance measures, there is a clear need for the Commonwealth to now put forward a comprehensive package to assist primary producers to respond to this drought,” the NSW deputy premier, Andrew Stoner, said.