Drugs on Paper
Worse yet, in addition to being difficult to track, it was cheap to make and many times the potency of the drugs with which they were familiar.
Category: Addictive Substances
Alcohol may be the oldest. New ones are being invented every day. There are thousands, and keeping track of what they are and what they do isn’t easy.
Addictive Substances
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RFKJr. and the Pouch
“Pouch” nicotine is a synthetic form of the drug that has been enhanced for rapid absorption and speedy delivery to the brain — changes that render it far more addictive.
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Here’s What Happens When You Stop
Even simply reducing alcohol consumption to low levels without full abstinence nonetheless increased cortical brain volume.
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Split Over Kratom
…both the Secretary of Health and Human Services and the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security have “strong ties to a kratom lobbyist (and convicted criminal) behind a notorious kratom drinks company.”
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Microdosing hallucinogens
They must be getting some kind of reward, or they wouldn’t keep coming back. Perhaps it’s the placebo effect?
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The Daily Pot Diet
…daily cannabis use may help with pain in the short term but make it worse in the long term by reducing tolerance to pain.
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Bad Call on Vaping
Where did all this “pressure” come from? You guessed it: The White House, in response, it appears, to the desperate appeals from industry lobbyists
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Medical MJ for MH
I know what the science says, and if asked, I can share that. But I don’t expect anyone to say, “whoa, I never knew! thank God you told me!”, and then immediately quit smoking pot.
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We Don’t Want A New Drug
Cychlorphine has failed to show up on the usual drug screens. That just means it’s more likely to be missed, including on autopsy.
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Update on Pot-related DWI…
Apparently, cannabis testing yields an unacceptable number of false positive results.
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Undercounted?
Seriously, where’s the incentive to put out a product that could potentially kill your best customers? How in the world could that be considered a smart business move?
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The Gray Lady Reconsiders
More Americans now use marijuana daily than alcohol.
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Odds & Ends, Cannabis Edition
A recent analysis of “..more than 55,000 adults based on their participation in panels between 2013 to 2022 found that after legalization of cannabis, their monthly usage rose 3.9%…”
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