Perennial Playboy Magazine Top-Ten Party School San Diego State University is in the news following the arrest of some of its students on allegations of illicit drug dealing and drug possession. The San Diego Union Tribune is reporting: Federal agents...
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Posted on May 7, 2008 4:24 PM • 16 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
The Drug Law Blog notes that The Association of the Bar of the City of New York will be discussing Marijuana Arrest Policy tomorrow. In 1977, New York State decriminalized possession of personal use amounts of marijuana. Nonetheless, researchers report...
Posted on April 29, 2008 6:43 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
For some reason many people are in denial about cannabis dependence and wish to assert that there is no such thing, or if there is, it is somehow of lesser importance than is dependence on other substances of abuse. There...
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Posted on April 29, 2008 3:28 PM • 96 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
This week's fax from the Center for Substance Abuse Research at the University of Maryland touches on an issue of continual interest, namely the determination of "how addictive" different drugs of abuse may be. As I have mentioned a time...
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Posted on April 16, 2008 5:33 PM • 16 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
I'm following up on some blogging resulting from a recent post of mine on the effect Len Bias' death (apparently) had on population level perception of the riskiness of trying cocaine. This will verge on the type of link-vomitus that...
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Posted on March 3, 2008 1:00 PM • 35 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
I have a tendency to refer to data from the Monitoring the Future study with some frequency. Unfortunately I've been too lazy to post the critical data figures for your entertainment. Until today DearReader. One example of which I am...
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Posted on February 29, 2008 3:15 PM • 18 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
The pot legalization folks are at least as organized as the MDMA advocates in attacking any and all science findings which might counter their firmly held beliefs. In fact one might assume that holding one's fundraiser at the Playboy Mansion...
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Posted on February 12, 2008 6:31 PM • 10 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
