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DRUG ADVISORY COUNCIL OF AUSTRALIA CALLS FOR URGENT ACTION ON PUBLIC FUNDING OF ILLEGAL DRUGS. A spokesperson for DACA today questioned the legality of using the internet to raise funds to manufacture and supply dangerous and illegal drugs. According the new reports a Norwegian advocacy… Read More »Norwegian Researchers Are Crowdfunding to Make Psychedelics and MDMA Free for Global Medical Use”, Vice News, March, 12, 2015

  “Australia’s resolution on ice gathers support at UN drugs conference”. Senator the Hon Fiona Nash Assistant Minister for Health Senator for New South Wales, Deputy Leader of the Nationals in the Senate   DRUG ADVISORY COUNCIL OF AUSTRALIA COMMENTS:  Minister Nash is the first… Read More »DACA Applauds Minister Nash’s call for a Global Fight Against ICE

From Abstract: “Whilst opiates have been shown to trigger numerous molecular pathways, the most interesting is the demonstration that the opiate morphinan’s nucleus binds to the endotoxin groove of the TLR4-MD2 heterodimer. This has the effect of triggering a low grade endotoxaemic-like state, which over… Read More »Epidemiologic and Molecular Pathophysiology of Chronic Opioid Dependence and the Place of Naltrexone Extended Release Formulations in its Clinical Management

From Abstract: “Opiates induce electrical silencing of POMC neurons resulting in hyperphagic obesity and dysmetabolic syndrome, mimicking senescence. Hence POMC neuronal pathophysiology becomes amplified organism-wide in a feed-forward loop. Together these factors suggest that we are on the very threshold of new insights which have… Read More »Hypothalamic Pathophysiology Opiate Dependence

From Abstract “Data show that lifetime opioid exposure, an interactive cardiovascular risk factor, particularly in women, is related to linear, quadratic, cubic and quartic functions of treatment duration and is consistent with other literature of accelerated ageing in patients with OD.”

I told the students that the election is being overwhelmed by the issue because my own party, the Democrats, don’t want to touch it. They are afraid their candidates will lose a big chunk of the youth and liberal base who support legalization/decriminalization in the… Read More »Harm reduction vs. legalization — The myths and the politics

The results show that any history of cannabis use was associated with an increased likelihood of reporting difficulty falling asleep, struggling to maintain sleep, experiencing non-restorative sleep, and feeling daytime sleepiness. For more read… http://www.science20.com/news_articles/marijuana_use_linked_to_impaired_sleep_quality-137585

Australian ‘Bong Lung’ – UK on verge of steep lung disease rise in young adults – due to heavy spliff smoking? Researchers believe high cannabis and tobacco use was the major cause of the aggressive and advanced emphysema, independent of any genetic susceptibility, as all… Read More »Australian ‘Bong Lung’

Predictors of onset of cannabis and other drug use in male young adults: results from a longitudinal study.Haug S1, Núñez CL, Becker J, Gmel G, Schaub MP.RESULTS: Not providing for oneself, having siblings, depressiveness, parental divorce, lower parental knowledge of peers and the whereabouts, peer… Read More »Predictors of onset of cannabis and other drug use in male young adults

Cannabis and bipolar disorder: does quitting cannabis use during manic/mixed episode improve clinical/functional outcomes?Zorrilla I1, Aguado J, Haro JM, Barbeito S, López Zurbano S, Ortiz A, López P, Gonzalez-Pinto A. Conclusions: Bipolar patients who stop using cannabis during manic/mixed episode have similar clinical and functional… Read More »Cannabis and bipolar disorder