The Netherlands has announced its intention to ban the import and use of qat, the narcotic leaves and shoots of...
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Why the methadone doesn’t work
Doling out methadone to heroin addicts has become a daily ritual for many pharmacies but the government needs to tackle...
Local governments are increasingly using their laws to just say no
Local U.S, governments who realize what the so-called “medical” marijuana is all about are increasingly using their laws to just...
Key cannabis components have opposite effects on the brain
Medscape reports that the 2 main chemical ingredients in marijuana, δ9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) and cannabidiol (CBD), can have very different effects...
The herb that got too high
Recent labelling of cannabis as a major ‘problem drug’ may surprise those who have smoked the odd joint in the...
U.S. agents aided Mexican drug trafficker to infiltrate his criminal ring
American drug enforcement agents posing as money launderers secretly helped a powerful Mexican drug trafficker and his principal Colombian cocaine...
California doctor linked to drug deaths arrested for trafficking painkillers
For some physicians at a Santa Barbara hospital it wasn’t the arrest of Dr. Julio Diaz on federal drug trafficking...
200 million people use illegal drugs
According to Australian research by Professor Louisa Degenhardt and Professor Wayne Hall an estimated 200 million people worldwide use illegal...
The evolution of drug policy, part II – What works and what doesn´t
New issue of the Journal of Global Drug Policy and Practice: In this issue, which is a continuation of the...
‘Spice’ makers alter recipes to sidestep state laws
Just months after Virginia and dozens of other states banned synthetic marijuana, the chemists who make it have found a...