Marijuana Relieves Chronic Pain, Research Shows. Aug. 30, 2010 -- Three puffs a day of cannabis, better known as marijuana, helps people with chronic nerve pain due to injury or surgery feel less pain and sleep better, a Canadian team has found. ''It's been known anecdotally, says researcher Mark Ware, MD, assistant professor of anesthesia and family medicine at McGill University in Montreal.
1970s and 1980s. Significant changes occurred in the economy of the Tennessee Valley and the nation, prompted by an international oil embargo in 1973 and accelerating fuel costs later in the decade. The average cost of electricity in the Tennessee Valley increased fivefold from the early 1970s to the early 1980s. TVA canceled the construction of 12 nuclear power plants in the 1980s. The 1970s saw the last and most controversial of the TVA's large dam-reservoir projects, Tellico Dam.
All of the following were among the objectives, the production of cheap electric power, providing jobs, soil conservation and forestry, and opening rivers to boats and barges of TVA EXCEPT: