Topic: DRUGS - on June 22, 2016 at 11:41:00 AM CEST
How 'Deleted' Yahoo Emails Led to a 20-Year Drug Trafficking Conviction
In 2009, Russell Knaggs, from Yorkshire, England, orchestrated a plan to import five tonnes of cocaine from South America hidden in boxes of fruit. Somehow, he did this all from the cell of a UK prison, while serving a 16-year sentence for another drug crime. As part of the plan, a collaborator in Colombia would log into a Yahoo email account and write a message as a draft. Another accomplice in Europe would read the message, delete it, and then write his own. The point of this was to avoid creating any emails that could be found by law enforcement.
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Topic: DRUGS - on June 22, 2016 at 11:39:00 AM CEST
On Legalizing Medical Cannabis: The DEA Responds
The DEA wants to remove the barriers to cannabis research, a spokesman told aNewDomain in a lengthy interview today. But how and when will it reschedule cannabis as a Schedule II drug? [Exclusive]
A DEA official responded at length today to a widely-circulated report that the DEA plans to effectively legalize medical cannabis this August. In an interview with aNewDomain today, DEA staff coordinator Russ Baer wouldn’t confirm the Santa Monica Observer report that the DEA will reschedule cannabis as a prescription-only Schedule II drug on Aug. 1, 2016. But he did comment at length about the agency’s thoughts around legalizing medical cannabis and how rescheduling cannabis from its current Schedule I status would have to work.
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Topic: DRUGS - on June 21, 2016 at 6:40:00 PM CEST
ACID BODHISATTVA: THE HISTORY OF THE TIMOTHY LEARY ARCHIVES DURING HIS PRISON AND EXILE YEARS, 1970-1976
How a scholarly hippie got pulled into the orbit of the psychedelic revolutionary whom then-President Nixon labeled “the most dangerous man in America” Lisa Rein conducts the first in-depth interview of Timothy Leary’s longtime archivist, Michael Horowitz Interview 1: December 1969 – November 1970 LR: How did you become Timothy Leary’s personal archivist? MH: I was uniquely suited for the role with my background working with rare books and manuscripts, and my immersion in the psychedelic counterculture, first in New York City and later in San Francisco. The immediate catalyst was meeting Robert Barker in San Francisco at the tail end of the ‘60s. Bob was a fellow consciousness explorer and an art book collector. He’s a Gemini from San Antonio, I’m a Sagittarius from Brooklyn. We clicked.
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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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