Heavy marijuana use can boost blood levels of a particular protein, perhaps raising a person’s risk of a heart attack or stroke, US government researchers said.
Dr Jean Lud Cadet of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, part of the National Institutes of Health, said the findings point to another example of long-term harm from marijuana. [...]

Using data from a survey of nearly 2300 Americans, researchers at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut found that 5 per cent of men and 10 per cent of women said they had faced discrimination because of their weight %26amp;#150; ranging from job refusals to rude treatment in everyday life.
Among respondents who were severely obese %26amp;#150; [...]