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$357,750: NIH Funds Research for App to Promote Exercise for Marijuana Users
Cybercast News Service ^ | June 30, 2015 | 12:30 PM EDT | Melanie Hunter

Posted on 06/30/2015 1:05:24 PM PDT by Olog-hai

Could an app motivate marijuana users to exercise? The National Institutes of Health is giving $357,750 in taxpayer dollars through its National Institute on Drug Abuse to State University of New York at Buffalo to find out.

“Currently, marijuana (MJ) is the most popular illicit drug, but there are few effective interventions to help young adults (age 18 to 25 years) to reduce their MJ intake and avoid negative consequences, including dependence,” the grant noted.

“This study will develop and initially test an intervention [personalized feedback on MJ use + a smartphone app to promote exercise/physical activity (PA) as a positive alternative to MJ use], designed to help young adults who regularly use MJ to reduce their MJ intake,” it added. …

(Excerpt) Read more at cnsnews.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Computers/Internet; Health/Medicine; Society
KEYWORDS: addiction; cannabis; exerciseapp; lazy; liberalagenda; nih; sloth; smartphoneapps; sunybuffalo

1 posted on 06/30/2015 1:05:24 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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2 posted on 06/30/2015 1:07:56 PM PDT by DannyTN
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To: ConservingFreedom; T-Bone Texan; shotgun; clee1

Pot Ping List

Let me know if you want on or off.


3 posted on 06/30/2015 1:12:08 PM PDT by dware (Yeah, so? What are we going to do about it?)
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And inhale and hold it in 10, 9, 8. 7, uh...7...uh...

and exhale....


4 posted on 06/30/2015 1:16:44 PM PDT by shotgun
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To: Olog-hai

An app to help you report your drug use directly to the government. Sounds like a winner!


5 posted on 06/30/2015 1:32:20 PM PDT by The Free Engineer
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To: Olog-hai

Ya...don’t you remember, back in 70’s, how you’d get high and then have a little trouble keeping up in aerobics class....???


6 posted on 06/30/2015 2:59:32 PM PDT by G Larry (Obama Hates America, Israel, Capitalism, Freedom, and Christianity.)
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To: Olog-hai

Be sure to light up at the point in your parents’ basement furthest from the refrigerator to maximize the amount of exercise you get from the munchies.


7 posted on 06/30/2015 3:23:58 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (The 1st amendment is the voice and the 2nd is the teeth of freedom. Obama wants to knock out both.)
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Don’t forget removing the batteries from the remote control so you have to get up to change the channel.


8 posted on 06/30/2015 6:00:39 PM PDT by a fool in paradise ("Psychopathia Sexualis, I'm in love with a horse that comes from Dallas" - Lenny Bruce (1958))
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To: Olog-hai

duuuude, where’s my phone?


9 posted on 06/30/2015 9:19:00 PM PDT by TurboZamboni (Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.-JFK)
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