Topic: DRUGS - on December 10, 2006 at 1:04:00 PM CET
Cannabis 'affecting young minds'
Half of young people using cannabis suffer side effects such as paranoia and blackouts, a UK survey suggests.
More than 80% of the 727 young people in their teens and early 20s polled by YoungMinds had tried the drug - the vast majority before they were 18.
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Topic: DRUGS - on December 9, 2006 at 1:00:00 PM CET
Drug traffickers conquer China's borders
According to Interpol, the UN and a recent report commissioned by Australia's National Council on Drugs, China has become the most important trafficking route for illegal drugs into the Asia-Pacific region. Officials estimate that China could have as many as 12 million addicts.
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Topic: DRUGS - on December 6, 2006 at 1:25:00 PM CET
What its like to be on LSD
The LSD Effect
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Topic: DRUGS - on December 5, 2006 at 11:52:00 AM CET
Study say marijuana no gateway drug
Marijuana is not a “gateway” drug that predicts or eventually leads to substance abuse, suggests a 12-year University of Pittsburgh study. Moreover, the study’s findings call into question the long-held belief that has shaped prevention efforts and governmental policy for six decades and caused many a parent to panic upon discovering a bag of pot in their child’s bedroom.
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Topic: DRUGS - on November 28, 2006 at 1:49:00 PM CET
Warning over Afghan drug economy
Afghanistan's soaring opium production threatens to wreck efforts to rebuild the country after years of war, the UN and the World Bank have warned.
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Topic: DRUGS - on November 27, 2006 at 11:20:00 AM CET
Δ9-tetrahydrocannabinol
Neuroscientist David Robbe of Rutgers University and his colleagues tested the impact of THC and a synthetic cannabinoid on rats that had their heads restrained. The drugs affected certain brain waves: the theta (four to 12 hertz) and fast ripple (100 to 200 hertz) waves diminished significantly, whereas the drug had a slightly lesser impact on gamma (30 to 80 hertz) waves. Because theta and gamma oscillations are thought to play a critical role in creating and storing short-term memories--and fast ripple oscillations may allow such short-term memories to be moved into long-term storage--this suppression could mean missing memories for the rats.
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Topic: DRUGS - on November 25, 2006 at 12:07:00 PM CET
Marijuana grow ops overrun Toronto building: police
A Canadian police search for marijuana grow operations mushroomed as officers discovered 22 units in a Toronto high rise were being used to cultivate the illegal drug, four times more than expected.
"It was quite shocking to us that there would be (22) in one particular apartment building," Toronto police Det. Sgt. David Malcolm told a news conference on Friday.
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Topic: DRUGS - on November 25, 2006 at 12:06:00 PM CET
Putting the Coca Back in Cola
Coca products were taboo for a long time in Colombia. Now Colombians can purchase coca wine, coca tea and coca cookies. The newest product is called Coca-Sek, an energy drink that is fast developing an international reputation -- much to the irritation of the Coca Cola company.
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Topic: DRUGS - on November 25, 2006 at 12:02:00 PM CET
How cocaine is made
Video shows the process of extracting the alkaloids used to make cocaine. Gasoline+cement+calcium oxide+ammonia+H2SO4+coca leaves
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Topic: DRUGS - on November 24, 2006 at 10:32:00 AM CET
European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction
Annual report 2006 Overview of the European drugs phenomenon in 29 countries. Drug facts, figures and analyses: across Europe and by country. Latest trends and social, legal and political responses.
The EU drug agency said its first ever analysis of street drug prices based on data from 29 European countries - the 25 EU countries plus Romania, Bulgaria, Norway and Turkey - showed that average prices adjusted for inflation had fallen in most countries and for most substances, with the price of ecstasy down 47%, heroin by 45%, cocaine by 22% and cannabis by 19%.
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Topic: DRUGS - on November 23, 2006 at 9:01:00 AM CET
Group scraps attempt to smoke biggest joint
A plan to roll and smoke the world's largest joint was cancelled at short notice in Amsterdam when the organizers realized they could be breaking the law.
"We have now read the small print and realize there could be problems," Thijs Verheij, one of the organizers, was quoted as saying by ANP news agency after consulting Dutch drugs laws.
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Topic: DRUGS - on November 21, 2006 at 5:52:00 PM CET
U.S.-bound sub carrying 3.5 tons of cocaine seized
Tipped off by three plastic pipes mysteriously skimming the ocean’s surface, authorities seized a homemade submarine packed with 3 tons of cocaine off Costa Rica’s Pacific coast.
Four men traveled inside the 50-foot wood and fiberglass craft, breathing through the pipes. The craft sailed along at about 7 mph, just six feet beneath the surface, Security Minister Fernando Berrocal said Sunday.
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