One of the most common and perhaps heartbreaking degenerative disorders in the world today, Parkinson’s Disease is a disorder of the central nervous system as a result of the death of dopamine generating cells in regions of the brain.

One of the reasons as to why Parkinson’s is considered such a selfish, agonising disease may be down to its lack of answers. There is no known reason as to why the cells degenerate and no definitive cure to the disease itself.

However, despite its relentless nature as a degenerative disease, there are ways in which the side effects of Parkinson’s can be managed. Over the past 30 years, research into the medicinal benefits of marijuana on Parkinson’s have provided some fascinating conclusions:

In the week when the UK government announced plans to ban poppers and laughing gas, a weed supperclub was announced in London.

Was this to incite people to spark up and to to make a stand against draconian laws for minor drug use via the popular food scene? Well, no, actually. It’s just a chance to create interesting dishes themed around the notion of getting stoned.

The number of cannabis plants seized by West Yorkshire Police soared by more than 70 per cent last year, according to new figures.

West Yorkshire bucked the downward national trend in 2014 for the number of seizures of illegal plants, with 15,327 taken by the county’s police compared with 8,960 in 2013.

The 71 per cent increase is the fourth biggest among the nation’s police force areas last year, according to new statistics from landlord insurer Direct Line.

During the same period the number of cannabis plants seized in neighbouring North Yorkshire dropped by 80 per cent, from 6,594 to 1,304, one of the largest falls in the country.

The Conservatives might have gone in softer than Russell Brand and the gang predicted, with very little change announced in the Queen’s Speech last week, but they didn’t fail to cause a stir. The proposed ‘Psychoactive Substances Bill’ is designed to provide a blanket ban on all substances which produce a mind-altering effect, with several allowances made for booze, fags and chocolate. The idea is to protect the public from any psychoactive substance that ‘affects the person’s mental functioning or emotional state’. Rather than replying to a public demand for such drastic measures, the Home Office stated the purpose of the bill was simply to ‘protect hard-working citizens’.

POLICE are continuing their investigation into the discovery of a cannabis farm found in an Wigan home that almost triggered an explosion in the house next door.

Officials have blasted the selfishness of those responsible for cultivating the drugs at the Lichfield Grove semi-detached house, which put the lives of a young mum and her two children at risk.

Exterior of a house on Lichfield Grove, Ashton-in-Makerfield, where a cannabis farm nearly caused a fire to neighbouring property

The woman reported the issue to her landlord when she detected a funny smell coming from her electricity box. He found it was overheating and the fire service and engineers from Electricity North West were called to the scene.

Use of cocaine, heroin, ecstasy and amphetamine at its highest in UK compared to rest of continent, the EU’s drug agency has revealed.

The UK is the drugs capital of Europe with reported use of cocaine, heroin, ecstasy and amphetamine at its highest across the continent, the EU’s drug agency has revealed.

Seizures of heroin and MDMA were also higher in the UK than in any of its neighbours, according to the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA).

And legal highs continued to flood in to the continent with 101 new substances reported last year, a rise of 25 per cent on the previous year, the agency said.

London was the cannabis farm of Britain with Birmingham second worst for homegrown weed and Greater Manchester third.

Landlords are being warned not to let their properties go to pot after cannabis seizures in rented homes rocketed by up to 195%.

According to research, police raids across the country resulted in 456,911 plants confiscated last year with one in three forces reporting a 40% rise in homegrown weed.

While London was the cannabis farm of Britain with 59,002 plants removed from houses and flats, outside the capital Birmingham had the second worst record with West Midlands police seizing 52,218 plants and Greater Manchester carting 33,547 away.

Researchers discover that risk mutations disrupt a delicate chemical balance in the brain, responsible for brain development and function.

An international team of scientists led by Cardiff researchers has provided the strongest evidence yet of what causes schizophrenia - a condition that affects around 1 percent of the global population.

Published in the journal Neuron, their work presents strong evidence that disruption of a delicate chemical balance in the brain is heavily implicated in the disorder.

In the largest ever study of its kind, the team found that disease-linked mutations disrupt specific sets of genes contributing to excitatory and inhibitory signaling, the balance of which plays a crucial role in healthy brain development and function.