A Nightly Mystery
The researchers made use of sophisticated wrist monitors to track the quality of sleep for some 1300 subjects over the course of 35 years, beginning in adolescence and extending into middle-age.
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Alcohol Study Suppressed
As it turns out, the alcohol industry— the people who make and distribute and sell alcoholic beverages to the public— strongly objected.
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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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A DUI Breakthrough?
…an estimated three out of four pot-positive DUI offenders were also positive for alcohol or other drugs when arrested.
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Another Round with Ibogaine
Apparently, some of the more level headed members of the medical community are already expressing concern about the possibility that, because of the aforementioned “national priorities”, psychedelics will avoid the usual scrutiny from experts.
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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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PAP or Pill?
Those humble antidepressants have their own advantages, of course. For one thing, they’re likely to be cheaper, more readily available.
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Another Look at Diagnosis
But were we looking at two different disorders on a parallel course through the generations? Or a single genetic vulnerability, expressing differently depending on one’s sex?
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A Massive Growth Spurt for Gambling
…a 24-fold increase in six short years. Almost all of it in the form of bets placed online. No casino, no off-track betting parlor required.
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More Dangerous Than We Knew
Drivers who test positive for THC are fond of arguing that the positive test was based on a joint they’d smoked a while ago – or even better, that somebody else in the car had been smoking.
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A Link with Dementia
“The genetic analyses results (showed) that even small amounts of alcohol could increase dementia risk…”
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A Closer Look at Overdose
All this time and money spent on sophisticated technology and systems to track patterns in use, and scientists are still forced to rely on data that’s six months out of date?
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