By Margie Boule Boule: Effects of drug can be all over the board It was bad enough when Sharon’s 17-year-old son was arrested for possession of dexadrine. Sharon was devastated. “I have zero — zero — tolerance for drugs,” she says. It was worse when she went on a drug hunt soon after and found [...]

By E. Patrick Curry It is surprising that the article “Effects of Banisteriopsis caapi Extract on Parkinson’s Disease” was published in the Summer 2001 issue of SRAM. If the research truly had merit, why would it not have been published in a neurology journal? As it was, the authors seemed unduly enthusiastic about less than [...]

I think the government’s position [on enforcing a ban on hemp in food products] has been less than convincing because it skirts the principal purpose for anti-hemp rules in the first place. If you ask any police officer or DEA agent what the main reason is for prohibiting hemp they will likely tell you it’s [...]

Overview “Club Drugs” is a general term for a number of illicit drugs, primarily synthetic, that are most commonlyencountered at nightclubs and “raves.” The drugs include MDMA, Ketamine, GHB, GBL, Rohypnol, LSD,PCP, methamphetamine, and, to a lesser extent, cocaine and psilocybin mushrooms. The drugs havegained popularity primarily due to the false perception that they are [...]

Treatment with Marinol, a synthetic version of cannabinoid chemicals found in marijuana, can reduce the pain often experienced by people with multiple sclerosis (MS) new research suggests. The findings, which appear in the British Medical Journal, are based on a study of 24 MS patients with pain who were treated with Marinol or inactive “placebo” [...]

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The case of a young man who suffered a stroke more than once after smoking marijuana adds to evidence that the drug can, in rare cases, have such serious consequences, according to researchers. By Amy Norton On three separate occasions, the 36-year-old man suffered a stroke shortly after smoking a [...]

Highlights: • Methamphetamine use as recorded by SAMHSA’s [U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration] National Survey on Drug Use and Health includes both prescription preparations (i.e., Desoxyn® and Methedrine) and non-prescription/illicit methamphetamine. • In 2004, an estimated 1.4 million persons aged 12 or older (0.6% of the population) had used methamphetamine in the [...]

Findings from a Dutch survey KARIN MONSHOUWER, MSc, SASKIA VAN DORSSELAER, MSc and JACQUELINE VERDURMEN, PhD Trimbos Institute (Netherlands Institute of Mental Health and Addiction), Utrecht TOM TER BOGT, PhD Trimbos Institute and University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands RON DE GRAAF, PhD Trimbos Institute and Department of Clinical Child and Adolescent Studies, University of Leiden, [...]

Heroin, which is a very popular drug of choice in the American drug culture today, is not a new drug that just showed up in the late 1960s. Its negative effects are not unique to modern times. Heroin is an opium derivative and, as with any of the opi   The Birth of the American [...]

  What do supporters of drug legalization use as strategies in the effort toward outright legalization of marijuana, as well as legalization of other recreational drugs ?   To garner support, supporters of comprehensive drug legalization use state’s rights, marijuana as a medicine and people’s natural compassion for the sick as excuses for its value. [...]