Support for the legalization of marijuana among young Americans is not as high as many perceive. According to a poll...
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U.S: NIH expert Nora Volkow warns against legalizing pot
A director from the National Institutes of Health warned House lawmakers Tuesday against legalizing marijuana use, saying it could act...
Jamaica: Cigarettes versus marijuana the paradoxical situation
While there is a campaign to persuade cigarette smokers to quit, Government is planning to introduce an even more harmful...
Legalizing marijuana could harm adolescents, say child psychiatrists
“Marijuana use is not benign, and adolescents are especially vulnerable to its many known adverse effects,” the American Academy of...
Mafia organizations more dangerous than terrorist groups
Mafia organizations are more of a threat than terrorist groups because they modify democracies from within by introducing their illicit...
When the State retreats: Organized crime in São Paulo
Graham Denyer Willis, from the Centre for Criminology and Socio-Legal Studies at the University of Toronto, has written an amazing...
Ireland: €11m in drugs seized this month in gardaí’s ‘relentless pursuit’ of organised criminals
GardaÍ seized €11 million worth of drugs in the last month alone. Acting Garda Commissioner Noirín O’Sullivan revealed this at...
U.S: Medication-assisted therapies — Tackling the opioid-overdose epidemic
The rate of death from overdoses of prescription opioids in the United States more than quadrupled between 1999 and 2010,...
What ever happened to ‘Just Say No’?
Once a juggernaut, the Nancy Reagan-helmed campaign has almost disappeared. But does that mean opposition to marijuana legalization is gone...
Efficacy and safety of medical marijuana in selected neurologic disorders
The American Academy of Neurology have produced a review of all available evidence on the use of marijuana to treat...