Professor Quippy: A counterintuitive cannabis story

Research from the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon, Canada (don't laugh, it's a university, and a damned nice one too), suggests that massive doses of cannabis (marijuana, pot, grass, dope, weed, etc.) can actually increase cell growth in the brain.

Wuahhhh? you say. And rightly so. My decidedly non-scientific survey of heavy pot users has shown that rather than stimulate brain cell growth, it tends to stimulate the need for cheeseburgers and twinkies. I've seen no evidence that it...