Throughout the years, weed has been a medicine, a crime and now a business opportunity, but one thing stayed the same: Tommy Chong, of stoner duo "Cheech and Chong," is going to smoke it.
It s branded in the United States as Versed, the Mayo Clinic website says. Like other benzodiazepines, it works by slowing activity to the brain, letting patients relax and decreasing their consciousness, according to the website.
It is also used to decrease consciousness in seriously ill patients who are hospitalized on breathing machines, according to the website of the U.S. National Library of Medicine, a part of the National Institutes of Health.
The drug can also have serious side effects including uncontrollable shaking, stiffening and jerking of the arms and legs, seizures, uncontrollable rapid eye movements and difficulty breathing or swallowing.
Khadija Horton
Effed-up fact alert: Recent research suggests that more Americans have blood markers signaling autoimmunity, or that their body is making antibodies that could fight a person s own immune system, and that
could translate to a rise in autoimmune disorders. If that made your brain hurt, just know that
autoimmune diseases are becoming more and more common.
“An autoimmune disease is any condition that causes your own immune system, which is designed to fend off foreign bodies, mistakenly attacks parts of your own body,” says
Deepa Kirk, M.D., associate professor of medicine and medical director of the UNC Hospitals Diabetes and Endocrinology Clinic at Meadowmont.
EXCLUSIVE: An anti-abortion group is pouring an initial $2 million into a campaign they say will "highlight the humanity of unborn children" as the Supreme Court prepares to hear a case that critics say could undercut Roe v. Wade.