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with some US doctors now prescribing Adderall#amphetamine salts used to treat ADHD and narcolepsy#to healthy children from low-income families purely to improve academic performance.
from Incans given coca leaves before battles to Allied soldiers using amphetamines during World war Two,
which can find traces of explosives, chemical weapons and illicit drugs. Among the project's breakthroughs, the X-ray backscatter equipment produces high-intensity beams
college students indicated they d used an illicit drug in the preceding year that s up from 34 percent in the 2006 survey.
Half (51 percent) of all full-time college students today have used an illicit drug at some time in their lives.
Marijuana has remained the most widely used illicit drug over the 34 years that MTF has tracked substance use by college students
Nonmedical use of the amphetamine Adderall used by some students to stay awake and concentrate when preparing for tests
or trying to finish homework ranks second among the illicit drugs being used in college. Eleven percent of college students in 2013 or one in every nine indicated some Adderall use without medical supervision in the prior 12 months.
The next most frequently used illicit drugs by college students are ecstasy hallucinogens and narcotic drugs other than heroin with each of these three having about 5 percent of college students reporting any use in the prior 12 months.
Ecstasy use after declining considerably between 2002 and 2007 from 9. 2 percent annual prevalence to 2. 2 percent has made somewhat of a comeback on campus. It rose to 5. 8 percent using in the prior 12 months in 2012
Hallucinogen use among college students has remained at about 5 percent since 2007 following an earlier period of decline.
The use of narcotic drugs other than heroin like Vicodin and Oxycontin peaked in 2006 with 8. 8 percent of college students indicating any past-year use without medical supervision.
The use of some other illicit drugs by college students also has declined in the past decade including crack cocaine powder cocaine tranquilizers and hallucinogens other than LSD
Another encouraging result is that a number of illicit drugs have been used in the prior 12 months by fewer than 1 percent of college students in 2013.
Also 24 percent of males versus 16 percent of females used some illicit drug other than marijuana.
but are not full-time college students have roughly equivalent proportions to college students in their past-year use of any illicit drug or any illicit drug other than marijuana.
They also have quite similar rates of several specific drugs including past-year use of marijuana ecstasy hallucinogens other than LSD and extreme binge drinking.
and narcotic drugs other than heroin (including Oxycontin and Vicodin specifically). The noncollege segment also has a daily cigarette smoking rate roughly three times
#Marijuana may change sperm shape in young men Using cannabis appears to affect the size and shape of spermnd perhaps put young men fertility at riskccording to a new study.
to have used cannabis in the three month period prior to ejaculation. ur knowledge of factors that influence sperm size
although our data suggests that cannabis users might be advised to stop using the drug if they are planning to try
and Turkey supervised by the International Narcotics Control board which seeks to prevent opiates like morphine for instance from being refined into illegal heroin.
For example drug smugglers recently have deployed makeshift submarines to clandestinely ferry narcotics long distances underwater. An improved more robust underwater sensor network could help spot these vessels.
The study ould be highly important for understanding how cannabis exerts its behavioral effects, Patel said.
Good to see the folks over at Popsci are focusing on Cannabis and the many benefits of this wonder plant.
overdoses from cannabis and all of the psychedelics COMBINED (LSD mescaline etc) are practically zero and need to be lumped in with'overdose by assault'(basically murder by poisoning)
Cannabis being lumped into the same category as LSD and overdose by assault. What is represented not effectively conspicuously seemingly by design are drugs that cause zero deaths.
If all these other deaths were shown the death count for alcohol would be much much greater. 2. Overdose deaths from cannabis LSD magic mushrooms
Investors are even jonesing for cannabis startups; Snoop Dogg announced a $25 million fund, and Founders Fund invested in Privateer Holdings$75 million fund,
#Scientists brew cannabis chemical THC for better drugs for cancer sufferers An active ingredient typically found in cannabis has been engineered genetically in the lab for the first time.
Scientists said the real challenge is to devise a method that works better than cannabis plants themselves.
easier way to create this cannabis component from scratch. Ordinarily, the chemicals are stripped from the plants themselves,
Although a significant breakthrough, this still means that cannabis plants are by far the best producer of the psychoactive molecule.'
Scientists said the real challenge is to devise a method that works better than cannabis plants themselves.
easier way to create this cannabis component from scratch, Ordinarily, the chemicals are stripped from the plants themselves,
#Medical marijuana Sparks New Technology The emerging cannabis industry has created not only thousands of new jobs, it has also given birth to a new technology niche.
The low hanging fruit was the copy cat web design for internet cannabis sites based on already popular traditional internet sites.
and Weedmaps is the rouponof cannabis with its daily deals. Weedhire is the equivalent of Monster. com for its marijuana jobs.
government agencies have also been challenged with meeting the specific requirements of complicated cannabis legislation. Since each state is unique in its regulations,
It was one of only a handful of American companies at the World Cannabis Conference in Spain.
NIC targets the government as its client in the cannabis space. It specializes in helping the government agencies tasked with creating a marijuana department.
Product testing is another cannabis hot button issue. In the early months of retail marijuana in Colorado, customers became confused as to how much THC was in the product they bought.
Amercanex is creating a cannabis commodity exchange with the plan for a futures market. Not unlike the other commodities exchange, this platform will allow cannabis farmers to lock in prices for their crops
and for buyers to secure their inventory. Steve Janjic, CEO of Amercanex said his company is looking ahead to
He said the problem with the cannabis tech companies is a lack of access to institutional money.
Banking is another problem for the cannabis industry causing businesses to become very creative in order to process transactions.
if Bank of america decides cannabis won get them in trouble with the Feds. In the meantime these new companies aren letting any grass grow beneath their fee t
Various cartels are using drones to send methamphetamine and other narcotics over the heads of authorities.
narcotics or paralytics to keep them breathing.""Holidays are spent not in the hospital anymore, "Green said."
#Genetically Modified Yeast Yields Narcotics, Raises Regulation Questions When bioengineer Christina Smolke started her own research lab,
yeast that can literally brew narcotic drugs. Achieving that, she knew, could open the door to the quick development of better medications of all sorts."
"We can leverage this technology to reduce some of the narcotics'side effects, or make medications that are less addictive,
Those microbes produce tiny quantities of narcotic, and only do it under highly-controlled conditions not in your average garage.
#Engineers Make Narcotics With Yeast. Is Home-brewed Heroin Next? When bioengineer Christina Smolke started her own research lab,
yeast that can literally brew narcotic drugs. Achieving that, she knew, could open the door to the quick development of better medications of all sorts."
"We can leverage this technology to reduce some of the narcotics'side effects, or make medications that are less addictive,
Those microbes produce tiny quantities of narcotic, and only do it under highly-controlled conditions not in your average garage.
Cannabis is hard to beat.""The idea instead is to offer up an alternative for places such as Europe,
since she published her first scientific article--"Cannabis and Chromosomes,"examining the impact of marijuana on embryonic cells--in The Lancet in 1969,
a potent narcotic pain reliever that was selected for the project because it tops the list of the most commonly abused prescription drugs.
Experts have called for tight control of organisms genetically modified to produce narcotics. If you brew beer at home,
But there are concerns these latest advances could allow a DIY drug lord to brew illegal narcotics in their home."
#Medical cannabis DOESN'T ease pain, nausea, vomiting, sleep disorders or Tourette's By Lizzie Parry for Mailonline Published:
14:51 GMT, 24 june 2015 There is very little evidence to suggest cannabis can help ease the symptoms of a raft of illnesses,
Medicinal cannabis has been legalised in 23 US states as a therapy to treat disease or alleviate symptoms,
500 volunteers, found the evidence supporting the use of medical cannabis is weak. It found moderate-quality evidence to support the use of cannabinoids-chemical compounds that are the active principles in marijuana-for the treatment of chronic pain.
and her team evaluated the evidence for benefits and adverse events, related to medicinal cannabis use.
In addition, Dr Whiting and her team found weak evidence to support the claim that medicinal cannabis has no effect on psychosis,
'Further studies evaluating cannabis itself are required also because there is very little evidence on the effects and adverse effects of cannabis.'
'In an editorial linked to the study, Dr Deepak Cyril and Dr Mohini Ranganathan, of Yale university, said:'
Additionally, narcotic painkillers like Oxycontin are acquired frequently by prescription but then sold for recreational use. In the case of the Johns Hopkins dispenser, medication is added by the pharmacist via a lockable opening in the bottom the pharmacist has a key to that opening,
The research focussed on the main psychoactive ingredient in cannabis, known as THC (tetrahydrocannabinol), which is not only responsible for the high associated with the drug-plus hallucinations, delusions, memory loss,
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