Tuesday, February 22nd, 2011 PARIS – The ingredient that gives cannabis its “high” and famously whets the appetite can help cancer patients recover lost pleasure in food, according to a study published on Wednesday. Researchers in Canada enrolled 21 patients who had been treated with chemotherapy for advanced cancer, and […]
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Can a Single Pill Change Your Life?
MDMA—the active ingredient in the party drug Ecstasy—has been reviled as a menace, a scourge, and even a killer. Now some therapists claim it can help light the way out of a traumatic past and beyond the painful feelings that keep us from the life we want.
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Anti-Stigma Week: Time to Reflect and Act
It has been incredible to see a diverse group of people and organizations pool their skills and resources to mount Anti-Stigma Week, with activities that all have one goal – enhancing individual and community health and well-being by transforming stigma around drug use. This year’s Anti-Stigma Week theme is Drug […]
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Drug War Anniversary a Time for Reflection and Action
By Ethan Nadelmann, Executive Director, Drug Policy Alliance Some anniversaries provide an occasion for celebration, others a time for reflection, still others a time for action. This June will mark forty years since President Nixon declared a “war on drugs,” identifying drug abuse as “public enemy No. 1.” As far […]
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YouGov/Economist Poll Finds Most Americans Support Marijuana Legalization
By Jacob Sullum A new YouGov poll commissioned by The Economist finds most Americans support marijuana legalization. Here is the question: Some people say marijuana should be treated like alcohol and tobacco. They say it should be regulated and taxed and made illegal for minors. Do you agree? Fifty-eight percent […]
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New Dialogue Report Calls For Alternative Approaches To Drug War
Most Americans believe that the country’s forty-year “war on drugs” has failed. Yet, despite the costs and growing opposition to US anti-narcotics strategy across Latin America, the US debate on drug policy remains muted. According to Rethinking US Drug Policy, a report released in January by the Inter-American Dialogue, what […]
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The Obama Administration’s Public Health Approach to Drug Policy
By R. Gil Kerlikowske, Director, White House Office of National Drug Control Policy President Obama’s comments during last week’s live YouTube interview about the need to approach our national drug problem from a public health perspective were timely, thoughtful, and well-grounded in what science tells us about drug use and […]
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Amsterdam is done. Where will potheads turn now?
By Agence France-Presse Sunday, January 30th, 2011 MAASTRICHT, Netherlands — Learning to grow their own weed or finding a dealer: French and Belgian potheads are seeking alternatives to the famous Dutch coffee shop as The Hague plans to cut off drug tourists. Incensed by the “nuisance” caused by millions of […]