(1) Altogether, 29% of the drivers had evidence of alcohol, marijuana, cocaine, prescription or nonprescription stimulants, or some combination of these, in either blood or urine.
(2) "It is very easy to see somebody get killed over this issue," Marijuana Industry Group Director Michael Elliott testified last month.
(3) Several months ago, the man received about $200,000 worth of marijuana from the cartel and delivered it to another dealer, but he could not repay the cartel, according to court papers.
(4) In many cases mental health professionals consulted by a number of the children when they were using drugs were likewise unaware of the marijuana abuse.
(5) Consistent with other researchers' findings, heavy marijuana users were found to differ significantly in living arrangements, job stability, and income.
(6) Drivers with little education and low income, younger drivers, and drivers who drove after heavy drinking or marijuana use, or both, were least likely to wear seatbelts.
(7) 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.
(8) Clinical manifestations of pathophysiology due to marijuana smoking are now being reported.
(9) The major issues in the controversy about marijuana and medicine, primarily moral and ethical, are discussed.
(10) A rowdy fringe took to raiding liquor stores, spraying graffiti and flaunting marijuana.
(11) One would be prudent to avoid marijuana during pregnancy, just as one would do with most other drugs not essential to life or well-being.
(12) It was a sunny Friday night by the seaside, and the atmosphere was spicy with sweat, lager and marijuana smoke.
(13) Speech quantity was recorded continuously in seven moderate marijuana users during separate 1 h experimental sessions following the paced smoking of 0, 1.01, 1.84, and 2.84% THC marijuana cigarettes.
(14) The DS effects of marijuana showed a rapid onset, appearing within 90 s from the beginning of smoking.
(15) The marijuana-induced acute memory impairment was assessed in a double-blind, crossover experiment.
(16) Some recent reports implicate marijuana smoking as a cause of cancer of the upper aerodigestive tract, though most of the subjects were exposed to other, possibly confounding, etiologic factors, namely tobacco and alcohol.
(17) While lawmakers debate how much THC (the psychoactive component in marijuana) a person can have in their blood before they're a danger on the road, Colorado's policemen have to rely on field sobriety tests.
(18) 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.
(19) Smoking marijuana can injure mucosal tissue and may have more carcinogenic potential than tobacco.
(20) At the same concentrations, cannabidiol (CBD) and cannabinol, cannabinoids devoid of marijuana-like psychoactivity, had no effect on DPH polarization.
Rip
Definition:
(n.) A wicker fish basket.
(v. t.) To divide or separate the parts of, by cutting or tearing; to tear or cut open or off; to tear off or out by violence; as, to rip a garment by cutting the stitches; to rip off the skin of a beast; to rip up a floor; -- commonly used with up, open, off.
(v. t.) To get by, or as by, cutting or tearing.
(v. t.) To tear up for search or disclosure, or for alteration; to search to the bottom; to discover; to disclose; -- usually with up.
(v. t.) To saw (wood) lengthwise of the grain or fiber.
(n.) A rent made by ripping, esp. by a seam giving way; a tear; a place torn; laceration.
(n.) A term applied to a mean, worthless thing or person, as to a scamp, a debauchee, or a prostitute, or a worn-out horse.
(n.) A body of water made rough by the meeting of opposing tides or currents.
Example Sentences:
(1) Critics of wind power peddle the same old myths about investment in new energy sources adding to families' fuel bills , preferring to pick a fight with people concerned about the environment, than stand up to vested interests in the energy industry, for the hard-pressed families and pensioners being ripped off by the energy giants.
(2) Tottenham MP David Lammy said the community "had the heart ripped out of it" by "mindless, mindless people", many of whom had come from outside Tottenham.
(3) Besides tolerating commercial espionage via hacking, it also allows the hosting of thousands of sites that help spammers rip people off around the world.
(4) Instead he ripped out the phone, left the couple and fled empty-handed with his accomplices.
(5) He argues that whenever you have periods of crazy expansion of virtual credit, like today, you either have to have a safety valve of forgiveness, like in Mesopotamia where you wiped the tablets clean every seven years, or you have an outbreak of social violence so intense you rip society apart.
(6) The distribution of derepression among castrated recombinant inbred strains (9 X A) indicated a close link of a locus repressing I-P-450(16 alpha) in male mice to the Rip locus on chromosome 7.
(7) It rips at our souls every single time we look the results,” said Winters, who was paid $12.8m, including a $10m buy-out award .
(8) Conformation of the renin inhibitor peptide, Pro-His-Pro-Phe-His-Phe-Phe-Val-Tyr-Lys (RIP) has been studied in aqueous solution and in lipid bilayers using 500 MHz 1H NMR spectroscopy.
(9) In chronic liver disease the frequency of HBAg with the RIP method was 83.3% in chronic persistent hepatitis, 42.8% in chronic aggressive hepatitis, 23% in cryptogenic cirrhosis and 16.6% in alcoholic cirrhosis.
(10) The former is an RNAase, whereas RIPs are N-glycosidases.
(11) Using interferon in the pretreatment sample as a measure of RIP concentration, a semilog plot of the pretreatment interferon titer and interferon subsequently produced, resulted in an approximately linear relationship between 10 and 100 units of interferon in the pretreatment sample.
(12) Clubs got into a mess partly because rich people, who knew nothing about football, put money in - and they got ripped off."
(13) Ribosome-inactivating proteins (RIPs) are a group of proteins that inhibit protein synthesis in eucaryotic cells.
(14) Response The DfE ripped up the first draft, replacing it with technology-based programme that includes 3-D printers in secondary classrooms, while primary school pupils will design and test structures and circuits.
(15) These results demonstrate that the RIP phenomenon can be a source of new functional alleles.
(16) "Around 2009, when Twilight was huge and Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart were wearing ripped jeans, that look was big, though it wasn't really from the catwalk," he said.
(17) Toward this goal performance in two 30-min rapid information processing (RIP) trials separated by a 10-min smoking period was compared among preselected high and low CO absorbing smokers, nonsmokers, and smokers not allowed to smoke (n = 12 per group).
(18) Yvette Cooper, the shadow home secretary, said: "The Lords today have ripped the heart out of this deeply flawed flagship bill.
(19) In 10 patients with adult respiratory distress syndrome, we studied the effects on respiratory system mechanics of two levels of positive end-expiratory pressure (PEEP), best PEEP (BP) and half of this value (HBP), using a respiratory inductive plethysmograph (RIP) combined with a super syringe.
(20) The regulator, Monitor, is partly constrained from letting competition rip.