Marijuana Use

The Sports Xchange Former NFL lineman: At least 50 percent of players use marijuana Former NFL offensive lineman Lomas Brown, an ESPN analyst, believes more than half of NFL players smoke marijuana. Brown made his claim to the Detroit News on Friday....

Police say the woman who drove drunk and killed seven people and herself on the Taconic State Parkway was a regular pot smoker. Diane Schuler's husband told police his wife "smoked marijuana once in a while to relieve the stress of work and the kids,"...

New Jersey is moving closer to allowing chronically ill patients to smoke marijuana to relieve symptoms of pain and nausea. On Thursday, the Assembly Health and Senior Services Committee approved the medical marijuana bill by an 8-1 vote, with two...

Investigators say a woman with a drug possession conviction was smoking pot the day the vehicle she was driving struck an 8-year-old boy in Skokie, pushing the bike he was riding on a sidewalk across the street and into a parked car. Carter Vo, a second-...

SANFORD, Fla. -- Evidence released last week in the second-degree-murder case against George Zimmerman shows four key witnesses made major changes in what they say they saw and heard the night he fatally shot 17-year-old Trayvon Martin in Sanford....

viv 77511/mcgonigle slotted/ Medical marijuana patients cannot use a federal disability law to prevent cities from shutting down pot dispensaries, a federal appeals court decided Monday. A three-judge panel of the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals...

Have a question for Dr. Blythe? Write to her at AskThePediatrician@tribune.com May 21, 2012 Q: My school-age children have been sick with colds lately and, because of conflicting information in the news, I'm still unsure about which over-the-counter...

Earlier this week, before Parker Brown's jump serve, a couple of rowdy fans in the visiting bleachers yelled at the most fit player on the court. "No. 1 is on steroids!" the fans said together. There was a time last year when Brown said he was on...

Smoking marijuana to relieve the symptoms of multiple sclerosis is a practice with a fair number of adherents, though it has not been subject to rigorous testing. A new study finds that puffing weed does have a rapid and measurable effect on MS patients'...

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. -- An alarming trend is spreading across the country and it's one of which parents need to be aware: marijuana use is spiking among teenagers.  According to a new report from drugfree.org, "heavy" marijuana use is up 80 percent since...

NAF EL CENTRO — Imperial County Sheriff’s Office authorities arrested two people at the Naval Air Facility El Centro bombing ranges Tuesday after being alerted by NAF range personnel about trespassing and possible government property theft,...

The Connecticut Senate was locked in a marathon debate late Friday on a bill to legalize and regulate the medical use of marijuana. Although lawmakers have pondered the issue several times in the past decade, Sen. Eric Coleman, D-Bloomfield, said that...