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Thursday, 02 May 2013 22:08 CEST
Federal and state attorneys general must take action to end marijuana standoff, promote public and mental health.
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Wednesday, 01 May 2013 23:05 CEST
Welfare reform that would deny benefits to recipients who test positive for drugs and whose child is truant from school passed the state House of Representatives Wednesday. The bills, which now move to the Senate for consideration, received wide bi-partisan support. The bill that would deny benefits to families if a child is truant from school passed on a 78-32 vote while the drug testing bill passed on a 77-33 vote.
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Wednesday, 01 May 2013 22:38 CEST
Police say a 33-year-old woman started a fire in her apartment near Chicago Sunday because she was angry with her husband for smoking all their marijuana.
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Wednesday, 01 May 2013 19:46 CEST
More high school students report using synthetic marijuana than any other substance besides alcohol and marijuana, according to data from a recently released survey of 9th to 12th graders. Alcohol and marijuana were the most prevalent drug used, with 57% reporting alcohol use and 39% reporting marijuana use in the past year in 2012. The third most prevalent substance used was synthetic marijuana (12%), often referred to
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Thursday, 02 May 2013 18:13 CEST
Lawmakers in the Washington House and Senate quietly passed a bill over the weekend that will re-criminalize some marijuana possession, reacting to warnings from the state's crime lab that the current law could make it impossible to prosecute large-quantity possession charges or large-scale marijuana growing operations.
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Thursday, 02 May 2013 17:52 CEST
Leading European and international experts will meet in Lisbon from 6–8 May to review the state of the art of a rapidly-developing scientific discipline known as 'drug wastewater analysis'. The event, 'Testing the waters: the first international multidisciplinary conference on illicit drugs and wastewater', is being organised by the EU drugs agency (EMCDDA), in collaboration with: the EU-funded SEWPROF project; the Italian Mario Negri Institute; and the Norwegian Institute for Water Research.
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Wednesday, 01 May 2013 22:42 CEST
Gov. Martin O'Malley's spokeswoman, Raquel Guillory, confirmed Wednesday that the governor will sign the measure. That will happen at a bill-signing ceremony Thursday, along with dozens of other measures, including a repeal of the death penalty.
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Wednesday, 01 May 2013 22:36 CEST
Federal agents are warning 11 medical marijuana dispensaries in the Seattle area to shut down. The Drug Enforcement Administration sent letters to the dispensary operators and landlords saying that the businesses are at risk of federal prosecution because they are located within 1,000 feet of a school, park or other sensitive location.
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Wednesday, 01 May 2013 19:40 CEST
Fresno State is one of dozens of colleges tightening the rules on the diagnosis of A.D.H.D. and the subsequent prescription of amphetamine-based medications like Vyvanse and Adderall. Some schools are reconsidering how their student health offices handle A.D.H.D., and even if they should at all.
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- U.S. Government Accountability Office: No progress was made on reducing teen drug use
- Comparison of the analgesic effects of Dronabinol and smoked marijuana in daily marijuana smokers
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- Prosecutors accuse Swiss pharmaceutical giant Novartis of kickbacks
- Scotland: Tobacco products go undercover
- Why legalizing marijuana (even for medical use) is a terrible idea
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