Topic: DRUGS - on February 29, 2012 at 10:51:00 AM CET
Uno warnt vor weltweiter Drogenschwemme
Bandenkriege in Mittelamerika, Rauschgifthandel in Afrika, eine Flut neuer Stoffe in Europa - die Vereinten Nationen warnen vor den Auswüchsen des Drogenkonsums. Der Vertrieb illegaler Substanzen über soziale Netzwerke im Internet floriere.
Mehr Hilfe für gesellschaftliche Randgruppen fordert der Drogen-Überwachungsrat der Vereinten Nationen (ICNB). Soziale Probleme wie Arbeitslosigkeit und wirtschaftlicher Wandel seien sowohl in Industrienationen als auch in Entwicklungs- und Schwellenländern eine entscheidende Ursache für grassierenden Drogenhandel, warnt der INCB in seinem am Dienstag vorgestellten Jahresbericht 2011.
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Topic: DRUGS - on February 29, 2012 at 10:46:00 AM CET
Mexican drug war 'not a failure'
U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano said Monday that the war on drugs in Mexico "is not a failure."
At a press conference in Mexico City after meeting Mexican Interior Minister Alejandro Poire, Napolitano called the drug policies of both Mexico and the United States "a continuing effort to keep our peoples from becoming addicted to dangerous drugs."
Napolitano also said that among the things discussed at the meeting with Poire was how to have a more regional approach to a number of security issues threatening the United States, Mexico and Central America.
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Topic: DRUGS - on February 29, 2012 at 10:31:00 AM CET
Big Sis Can’t Quit the Drug War
Three years ago, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton announced that the war on drugs “had not worked” — and admitted that the American appetite for narcotics “fuels the drug trade.” But now Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano would like to take that all back. It’s full steam ahead for the drug war.
“‘Is the drug war a failure and are we going to change our strategy?’ I would not agree with the premise that the drug war is a failure,” Napolitano said Monday after a meeting with Alejandro Poire, Mexico’s interior minister and top drug warrior. “I would say however that it is a continuing effort, to keep our peoples from becoming addicted to dangerous drugs,” she added.
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Topic: DRUGS - on February 20, 2012 at 12:40:00 PM CET
Is inhalable caffeine safe? FDA to investigate AeroShot!
AeroShot is a branded product that has been available to consumers in Massachusetts and New York, in the United States, and in France since late in January 2012. However, is the inhalable caffeine safe? The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will analyze it after serious concern has been raised as to its safety to consumers.
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Topic: DRUGS - on February 20, 2012 at 10:25:00 AM CET
Haarlems Coffeeshops weigern sich den Wietpass einzuführen
Alle 16 lizensierten Coffeeshops in Haarlem, den Niederlanden, weigern sich den Wietpass von Justizminister Opstelten einzuführen. Die Besitzer der Cannabiscafes sehen keinen Sinn in der Registrierung ihrer Kunden als Cannabisgebraucher. Smokeout-Demonstration am 20. April 2012 geplant.
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Topic: DRUGS - on February 19, 2012 at 12:35:00 PM CET
Dumb Teen, Looking For Marijuana, Steals Tomato Plant
Call it a case of mistaken plant identity.
A 15-year-old boy climbed into Angela Cartwright's kitchen window thinking to make off with a marijuana plant, but instead the young thief was actually stealing a potted tomato plant, a sheriff's arrest report shows.
As he was running from Cartwright's house on Carmen Avenue near Holly Hill on Feb. 10 just after 7 a.m., the teen even yelled at Cartwright, "See, I have one of your pot plants!" the arrest report states.
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Topic: DRUGS - on February 17, 2012 at 10:27:00 AM CET
Zum 70er Paul McCartney gibt Cannabis-Konsum auf
Ex-Beatle Paul McCartney hat kurz vor seinem 70. Geburtstag das Ende seines Cannabis-Konsums verkündet. "Ich habe viel genommen, und es war genug", sagte der Musiker, der am 18. Juni Geburtstag hat, der Zeitschrift "Rolling Stone"
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Topic: DRUGS - on February 4, 2012 at 11:22:00 AM CET
Gefährliche Pestizide im Haschisch – Experten beunruhigt
Kaum eine Woche vergeht, in der die Polizei nicht irgendwo in der Schweiz auf eine illegale Hanf-Produktionsanlage stösst. Die industrielle Cannabis-Produktion boomt und beunruhigt Gesundheitsexperten, wie «10vor10»-Recherchen zeigen. Dieses Haschisch ist nicht nur viel stärker als früher, sondern zum Teil auch mit Spritzmitteln vergiftet.
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Topic: DRUGS - on February 4, 2012 at 11:19:00 AM CET
Zinc Reduces the Detection of Cocaine, Methamphetamine, and THC by ELISA Urine Testing
Federal workplace drug testing was initiated during the late 1980s. Since then, numerous methods have been employed to subvert these drug tests, adulteration of urine samples being the most common. A wide variety of adulterants has been reported to date along with suitable methods of their detection. Recently, websites have claimed that zinc sulfate can be an effective adulterant to bypass drug testing. Herein, these claims are investigated using standard drug detection kits and urine samples adulterated with zinc. Drug-free urine samples were fortified with different amounts methamphetamines and benzoylecgonine, to which zinc sulfate was added to study its effect. Urine samples from acute marijuana smokers were also obtained in order to study the effects of zinc supplements on THC drug testing.
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Topic: DRUGS - on February 4, 2012 at 11:17:00 AM CET
Studie: Einnahme von Zinkpräparaten erschwert die Erkennung von THC in Urinproben
Wie im Journal of Analytic Toxicology (link) schon Mitte letzten Jahres veröffentlicht wurde, sind Zinkpräparate dazu geeignet die Erkennung von Kokain, Methamphetamin und THC in Urinproben im Rahmen von Schnelltests zu erschweren.
Wir geben allerdings zu bedenken, dass diese kein Freifahrtschein ist, um die nächste Polizeikontrolle zu meistern. Tests die auf Urinproben basieren können sowohl falsch-positive, wie auch positiv-falsche Ergebnisse liefern und sind nicht hinreichend genau.
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Topic: DRUGS - on February 2, 2012 at 10:53:00 AM CET
New debate: When is medical marijuana "usable?"
When police knocked on Josh Brewer's door to check for marijuana, even one of the nation's most liberal medical marijuana laws was put to the test.
When police knocked on Josh Brewer's door to check for marijuana, even one of the nation's most liberal medical marijuana laws was put to the test.
Officers were fine with the two pounds 10 ounces he and a cousin had grown, harvested, and processed. That was under the pound and a half each allowed by law. And they didn't care about the 12 plants - six each - growing in the backyard. Also legal.
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Topic: DRUGS - on February 2, 2012 at 9:21:00 AM CET
Guided Psychedelic Sessions - The Psychedelic Explorer's Guide: Safe, Therapeutic, and Sacred Journeys
What is the optimal use of psychedelics, not only to cure human maladies but also to enhance human capabilities? This is the question considered by Jim Fadiman, a Stanford Ph.D. in psychology, in his new book, The Psychedelic Explorer's Guide: Safe, Therapeutic, and Sacred Journeys.
Fadiman believes that psychedelic molecules such as lysergic acid diethylamide are potential blessings cast into the shadows by hysteria in the 1960s and thus almost wholly lost to legal use, and thus to science, for close to half a century. The question, he implies, is not whether the molecules will nonetheless be ingested, but the extent to which they will be used optimally (or at least, as scientists would say, "non-trivially").
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