Category: Drug Trends

Cannabis – The Truth

Paper presented at the Maxie Richards Foundation Conference Glasgow Oct 2003. Cannabis or marijuana, is our commonest illegal drug, currently used in Britain by around 3.2 million people. Most of them are totally unaware of its damaging effects, especially on the brain. There are now in excess of 15,000 scientific papers on cannabis. None of…

INTERNATIONAL DRUG STATISTICS FROM DRUG WATCH INTERNATIONAL

The myth that cannabis is harmless has been destroyed. In 1999, DAWN (Drug Abuse Warning Network) data reported by medical examiners shows that of 664 drug-related deaths, there were 187 deaths where marijuana was the only drug reported.  (Federal Register: Apr. 18, 2001, Vol. 66, No. 75, pps. 20037-20076) The Forensic Toxicology Institute reports that,…

Trading for a High

An inside look at a “pharming party,” the newest venue for teenage prescription-drug abuse In the basement of a Cape Cod on a suburban street in northern New Jersey, a teenage boy turns to a friend and asks impatiently, “What did you get? I’ll give you some of this”–indicating a bottle of Ritalin stuffed into…

DEA Drug Intelligence Brief

OVERVIEW Drug policy in Western Europe has always been experimental, but, in recent years, several countries have joined the Netherlands and Switzerland in their pursuit of alternative methods for dealing with the drug epidemic. Many Western European nations are refocusing efforts on the social welfare aspect of drug use and reducing their focus on the…

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