Response to The New York Times Editorial Board’s Call for Federal Marijuana Legalization The Whitehouse Office of National Drug Control Policy Staff on July 28, 2014 The New York Times editorial board opined in its Sunday July 27, 2014 edition that the Federal government should legalize… Read More »Response to The New York Times Editorial Board’s Call for Federal Marijuana Legalization
DRUG ADVISORY COUNCIL OF AUSTRALIA COMMENTS: Self-medication is bad medicine. Any decent health practitioner and responsible government understands this fact. The AMA has commented saying that “any therapeutic potential of cannabis requires more research!”1 This statement by our leading medical body is important to note… Read More »[DACA] NEWS ITEM: “MEDICAL” CANNABIS – AMA STATES THERAPEUTIC POTENTIAL OF CANNABIS REQUIRES MORE RESEARCH
1) The world’s second most popular drug – Tobacco!– Some good news! The Global state of Tobacco consumption is changing for the better. As you can see the US, is reducing smoking, and of course Australia has one of the lowest (if not the lowest)… Read More »Good day fellow Proactive Harm Preventers!
People who regularly use marijuana show significant abnormalities in areas of the brain associated with motivation and emotion, a team of Swiss researchers has found. The scientists discovered changes in the volume of grey matter — the tissue containing brain cells — in regular marijuana… Read More »Magnetic Resonance Imaging study finds brain abnormalities in regular marijuana users
Decreased dopamine brain reactivity in marijuana abusers is associated with negative emotionality and addiction severity Author AffiliationsContributed by Joanna S. Fowler, June 20, 2014 (sent for review April 9, 2014; reviewed by Bertha Madras, Harvard University Medical School, and Karen Berman, National Institute of Mental… Read More »Decreased dopamine brain reactivity in marijuana abusers is associated with negative emotionality and addiction severity
