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11 hours ago ago from Drug WarRant

Follow-up on the Ashley III Halsey story As a reminder, Halsey reported, as the main point of his story, that a government study said something which it clearly did not. This is not a he-said-he-said situation, or something that's open to interpretation. Either he was duped or he was lazy, but he clearly wrote something that was factually wrong, and then got angry when asked to correct it. It appears now that the Washington Post ...

Congress Gets Its Act Together

16 hours ago ago from Cannabis News - Medical Marijuana, Marijuana News, Hemp, Cannabis

Washington, D.C. finally seems to be getting the message that the war on drugs has failed. Following years of resistance if not outright hostility to reforming our nation's drug laws, Congress has passed two major changes to U.S.drug policy as part of an end-of-year omnibus spending package that President Obama signed into law yesterday. First, the legislation repeals a decades-old policy that prohibited cities and states from using ...

Use, misuse of alcohol and marijuana influenced by common set of genes

13 hours ago ago from Health News - Health News 24/7/365

WASHINGTON - A new study has found that use and misuse of alcohol and marijuana can be traced to common set of genes. The study will be published in the March 2010 issue of Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research and are currently available at Early View. Results from a large annual survey of high-school students show that in 2008, 41.8 percent of 12th graders reported having used marijuana, explained Carolyn E. Sartor, ...

OF WARS WITHOUT PURPOSE

1 day ago ago from endemismo trasnochado

HOW CAN anyone forget those Drug Wars in Colombia, Pablo Escobar for example, during the 90's. Now it is Mexico's turn. However, in the first case, the atrocities were of much originality and lots of bad press around the world. In the second, Ciudad Juarez, I see no imagination, creativity. It is just shooting at everything in sight, with more dead in a year, than USA casualties in those pointless wars in Afghanistan, Irak , and those that ...

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Patient Money: Not All Drugs Are the Same After All

14 hours ago ago from The New York Times

Oscar Hidalgo for The New York Times Because of possible variations among generics, James A. Reiffel, a cardiologist and professor of clinical medicine at Columbia, said he was leery about prescribing generic drugs for arrhythmias, or anticoagulants or anticonvulsant medications. Share your thoughts on this column at the Well blog. Related Tips on Generics (December 19, 2009) More Articles in This Series Let me ...

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