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09.012012January 9, 2012

Local governments are increasingly using their laws to just say no

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Local U.S, governments who realize what the so-called “medical” marijuana is all about are increasingly using their laws to just...

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09.012012January 9, 2012

Key cannabis components have opposite effects on the brain

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Medscape reports that the 2 main chemical ingredients in marijuana, δ9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) and cannabidiol (CBD), can have very different effects...

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09.012012January 9, 2012

The herb that got too high

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Recent labelling of cannabis as a major ‘problem drug’ may surprise those who have smoked the odd joint in the...

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09.012012January 9, 2012

U.S. agents aided Mexican drug trafficker to infiltrate his criminal ring

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American drug enforcement agents posing as money launderers secretly helped a powerful Mexican drug trafficker and his principal Colombian cocaine...

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07.012012January 7, 2012

California doctor linked to drug deaths arrested for trafficking painkillers

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For some physicians at a Santa Barbara hospital it wasn’t the arrest of Dr. Julio Diaz on federal drug trafficking...

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06.012012January 6, 2012

200 million people use illegal drugs

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According to Australian research by Professor Louisa Degenhardt and Professor Wayne Hall an estimated 200 million people worldwide use illegal...

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04.012012January 4, 2012

The evolution of drug policy, part II – What works and what doesn´t

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New issue of the Journal of Global Drug Policy and Practice: In this issue, which is a continuation of the...

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04.012012January 4, 2012

‘Spice’ makers alter recipes to sidestep state laws

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Just months after Virginia and dozens of other states banned synthetic marijuana, the chemists who make it have found a...

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03.012012January 3, 2012

Induction of psychosis by delta9-tetrahydrocannabinol

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The aberrant processing of salience is thought to be a fundamental factor underlying psychosis. Cannabis can induce acute psychotic symptoms,...

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02.012012January 2, 2012

Overdosing on extremism

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Kevin A. Sabet: According to a recent study by the Centers for Disease Control, drug overdoses have increased almost six-fold...

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