Red vs. Purple

Marijuana puts kids at risk. It is the most widely used illicit drug among youth today and is more potent than ever. Marijuana use can lead to a host of significant health, social, learning and behavioral problems at a crucial time in a young person's development. Getting high also impairs judgment, which can wreak havoc on teens in high-pressure social situations, leading to risky decision making on issues like sex, criminal activity or riding with …

…name of the sect leader - one Hasan Ibn al-Sabbah. In 1839 after much success in Bengal with using cannabis to treat pains, convulsions and the spasms of rabies, a Doctor O'Shaughnessey published a 40 page treatise describing its value as a sedative. This led to western medicine adopting cannabis to treat everything from abdominal pains to gonorrhoea, migraines to epilepsy, asthma to gout. Later Queen Victoria was to take a draw to ease her period pains.