Topic: DRUGS - on June 21, 2016 at 6:35:00 PM CEST
U.S. Gov't Will Legalize Marijuana on August 1 - 8/01 is the new 4/20!
The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration will reclassify marijuana as a "Schedule Two" drug on August 1, 2016, essentially legalizing medicinal cannabis in all 50 states with a doctor's prescription, said a DEA lawyer with knowledge of the matter. The DEA Lawyer had told the lawyer representing a DEA informant of the DEA's plan to legalize medicinal cannibis nationwide on August 1, 2016. When questioned by our reporter, the DEA lawyer felt compelled to admit the truth to him as well. "Whatever the law may be in California, Arizona or Utah or any other State, because of Federal preemption this will have the effect of making THC products legal with a prescription, in all 50 states," the DEA attorney told the Observer. Federal Preemption is a legal doctrine that where the US Government regulates a particular field, State and local laws are overridden and of no effect.
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Topic: DRUGS - on June 18, 2016 at 11:31:00 AM CEST
Weltweite Drogenstudie: 92 Prozent der Befragten konsumieren Alkohol
Seltener konsumiert, von Forschern aber als am gefährlichsten eingestuft: synthetische Cannabinoide "Welche Drogen nehmen Sie und wie oft?" "Von wem haben Sie Ihre Drogen?" "Würden Sie natürliches Cannabis für synthetische Drogen eintauschen?" Es ist ein seltener Einblick, den die Global Drug Survey 2016 in die Welt der Drogenkonsumenten bietet. Etwa 100.000 Befragte haben einem britischen Wissenschafterteam mitgeteilt, was sie schnupfen, spritzen, schlucken oder rauchen. Aus den Antworten leiten die Forscher Empfehlungen ab, wie Drogen mit weniger Risiko konsumiert werden können. Zwei ihrer Haupterkenntnisse: Der Konsum synthetischer Cannabinoide ("Spice", "Yucatan Fire", "Zoom") führt häufiger zu medizinischen Notfällen als alle anderen Drogenarten. Immer öfter werden Drogengeschäfte über Marktplätze im Darknet organisiert und abgewickelt.
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Topic: DRUGS - on June 13, 2016 at 10:57:00 AM CEST
Scientists found something strange when they looked at the brains of pot smokers
Marijuana's official designation as a Schedule 1 drug – something with "no accepted medical use" – means it is pretty tough to study. Yet numerous anecdotal reports, as well as some studies, have linked marijuana with several purported health benefits, from pain relief to helping with certain forms of epilepsy. Still, experts say more rigorous scientific analyses are needed. Use of marijuana, a psychoactive drug, can come with risks, especially in people who may be prone to addiction or mental illness. And now, for the first time, researchers have found a link between daily decade-long weed use and a difference in how the brain processes reward.
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Topic: DRUGS - on June 13, 2016 at 10:54:00 AM CEST
Nevada’s Largest Paper Used To Support Marijuana Legalization. Then Sheldon Adelson Bought It.
Last summer, the Las Vegas Review-Journal published an editorial proclaiming that the paper’s editorial page “has long supporting the decriminalizing, regulating and taxing the sale of currently illegal drugs,” including marijuana. It was on record as supporting an effort to legalize marijuana in the state that will go before voters this November, and as recently as late last year called for all presidential candidates to champion “removing marijuana from Schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act.”
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Topic: DRUGS - on June 13, 2016 at 10:52:00 AM CEST
Ketamine Research In A New Light
A few weeks ago, Nature published a bombshell study showing that ketamine’s antidepressant effects were actually caused by a metabolite, 2S,6S;2R,6R-hydroxynorketamine (don’t worry about the name; within ten years it’ll be called JOYVIVA™®© and you’ll catch yourself humming advertising jingles about it in the shower). Unlike ketamine, which is addictive and produces scary dissociative experiences, the metabolite is pretty safe. This is a big deal clinically, because it makes it easier and safer to prescribe to depressed people.
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Topic: DRUGS - on June 13, 2016 at 10:51:00 AM CEST
Scientists found something strange when they looked at the brains of pot smokers
Marijuana's official designation as a Schedule 1 drug – something with "no accepted medical use" – means it is pretty tough to study. Yet numerous anecdotal reports, as well as some studies, have linked marijuana with several purported health benefits, from pain relief to helping with certain forms of epilepsy. Still, experts say more rigorous scientific analyses are needed. Use of marijuana, a psychoactive drug, can come with risks, especially in people who may be prone to addiction or mental illness. And now, for the first time, researchers have found a link between daily decade-long weed use and a difference in how the brain processes reward.
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Topic: DRUGS - on June 13, 2016 at 10:48:00 AM CEST
Fear and loathing in Amsterdam or This time I went to a conference on psychedelic research
Oh, Amsterdam, the city of sex and drugs! Just kidding, there is certainly more to it than that. Like, for example, piss-drunk British teenagers coming in on these EasyJet weekend flights. Just kidding again! Amsterdam is a great city which I love dearly and just this weekend it hosted the third Interdisciplinary Conference on Psychedelic Research. So I guess you can say, I came to Amsterdam for drugs. Psilocybin, MDMA, LSD, ayahuasca, mescaline, ibogaine -- everything was covered. It was great seeing how many research groups are investing their efforts in what can be called the psychedelic Renaissance and how many non-scientists were there to gain some knowledge about these often still stigmatised drugs. So here you go, your fresh fix of psychedelic research!
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Topic: DRUGS - on June 10, 2016 at 9:51:00 PM CEST
DEA Wants Inside Your Medical Records to Fight the War on Drugs
The feds are fighting to look at millions of private files without a warrant, including those of two transgender men who are taking testosterone. Marlon Jones was arrested for taking legal painkillers, prescribed to him by a doctor, after a double knee replacement. Jones, an assistant fire chief of Utah’s Unified Fire Authority, was snared in a dragnet pulled through the state’s program to monitor prescription drugs after someone stole morphine from ambulance in 2012. To find the missing morphine, cops used their unrestricted access to the state's Prescription Drug Monitor Program database to look at the private medical records of nearly 500 emergency services personnel—without a warrant.
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Topic: DRUGS - on June 9, 2016 at 2:24:00 PM CEST
Drugs Map of Britain | Scotland's Valium Crisis
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Topic: DRUGS - on June 7, 2016 at 5:19:00 PM CEST
The Early, State-Sanctioned LSD Experiments in Communist Bulgaria
Bulgarians were turning on, tuning in, and dropping out long before hippies.
LSD is usually associated with the hippie counterculture of the late 1960s. What has not been known until recently is that dozens of experiments involving the psychedelic drug were carried out in Communist Bulgaria, from 1962 to 1968, by the Bulgarian psychiatrist Marina Boyadjieva. Among the human guinea pigs were doctors, artists, miners, truck drivers, and even prisoners and mentally ill patients. These research subjects were involved in some 140 trials.
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Topic: DRUGS - on June 3, 2016 at 2:42:00 PM CEST
Software for the marijuana industry set to yield high returns
Is there software in the burgeoning legal marijuana industry? Just a dab. With four states offering legal marijuana, and more than 20 with medical or decriminalized cannabis laws, the business of selling the plant and its derivatives is growing every year. Naturally, software developers, vendors and startups alike are all looking to cash in on the boom. Silicon Valley, itself located in a state with legalized medical marijuana, has even produced a few pot startups.
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Topic: DRUGS - on May 20, 2016 at 4:23:00 PM CEST
Harald Lesch über den Unsinn des Cannabis-Verbots
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