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• Marijuana: Where Things Stand

  

  Results of the 2016 election. Source: Governing.com Read more

  Posted on 16 November 2016 HEALTH, PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Synthetic Dialectic

  

  Banning New Drugs: What is the Path Forward? Eighteen months ago, in a post on novel synthetic drugs in the cannabinoid and cathinone families, I wrote that... Read more

  Posted on 02 September 2016 PSYCHOLOGY

• The Poetry of “Irresistible Descent”

  

  John Berryman in the Penal Colony “Will power is nothing. Morals is nothing. Lord, this is illness.”—John Berryman, 1971A year before he committed suicide by... Read more

  Posted on 01 August 2016 HEALTH, PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Addiction Treatment Industry at the Crossroads

  

  How unethical treatment shills hunt down patients.Check this account at Huffington Post by Ryan Grim: "Addiction Treatment Industry Worried Lax Ethics Could... Read more

  Posted on 20 June 2016 HEALTH, PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Nicotine Genes: Evidence From a 40-Year Study

  

  How adolescent risk becomes grownup addiction. Pediatricians have often remarked upon it: Give one adolescent his first cigarette, and he will cough and choke... Read more

  Posted on 14 June 2016 HEALTH, PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• From Failure to Enthusiasm

  

  Guest PostBy AndySuccess is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm." Winston ChurchillOne of the reasons I love this quote, is because for... Read more

  Posted on 08 June 2016 HEALTH, PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Addressing Criticisms of the Disease Model

  

  Volkow, Koob, and McLellan on the neurobiology of addiction.The New England Journal of Medicine recently published a review article, “Neurobiologic Advances fro... Read more

  Posted on 16 February 2016 HEALTH, PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Cannabis Sativa Vs. Cannabis Indica: Science Or Folklore?

  

  Golden Goat or Sour Diesel? The bland assurances from medical marijuana dispensaries about the physical and psychological effects of the bewildering array of... Read more

  Posted on 05 February 2016 HEALTH, PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• A Roundtable Discussion on Cannabis Use Disorder

  

  Addressing the habit-forming aspects of marijuana.A trio of leading marijuana scientists participated in a panel discussion moderated by Dr. Read more

  Posted on 01 February 2016 HEALTH, PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Annual NIDA Survey Shows Declines in Teen Drug Use

  

  The kids are all right.Every year, the National Institute of Drug Abuse (NIDA), under the auspices of the National Institutes of Health, conducts its... Read more

  Posted on 16 December 2015 HEALTH, PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• The Great Gateway Theory

  

  Smoke pot, shoot smack?The Great Gateway Hypothesis has had a long, controversial run as a central tenet of American anti-drug campaigns. As put forth by... Read more

  Posted on 22 November 2015 HEALTH, PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Freud and His Drug Demons

  

  Cocaine addiction and psychoanalysis.That Sigmund Freud was a cocaine abuser for some portion of his professional life is by now well known. Reading An Anatomy... Read more

  Posted on 31 October 2015 HEALTH, PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Cannabis Receptors and the Runner’s High

  

  [First published August 4 2010]Maybe it isn't endorphins after all.What do long-distance running and marijuana smoking have in common? Quite possibly, more... Read more

  Posted on 12 October 2015 HEALTH, PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• The Zendo Project

  

  The Zendo Project Read more

  Posted on 09 October 2015 HEALTH, PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Caffeine, Energy Drinks, and Everything Else

  

  It's the everything else that adds up.A couple of years ago, coffee drinkers were buoyed by the release of a massive study in the New England Journal of Medicin... Read more

  Posted on 17 September 2015 HEALTH, PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Marijuana Deconstructed

  

  What's In Your Weed?Australia has one of the highest rates of marijuana use in the world, but until recently, nobody could say for certain what, exactly,... Read more

  Posted on 21 July 2015 HEALTH, PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Such Stuff As Dreams Are Made On: Marijuana and Sleeping

  

  Study sheds potential light on indica vs. sativa debate.[Thanks to Ivan Oransky (@ivanoransky) for alerting me to this study.]Everyone who has smoked marijuana... Read more

  Posted on 13 July 2015 HEALTH, PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Jack London and His Alcoholic Memoirs

  

  Meet John Barleycorn.In the early years of the 20th Century, writer Jack London was the equivalent of a rock star. A ruggedly good-looking sportswriter,... Read more

  Posted on 12 May 2015 HEALTH, PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Alcohol Industry Turns Moderation Into a Sales Message

  

  A warning or an advertisement?You almost have to admire the tenacity shown by the liquor industry in its passive aggressive method of turning a warning label... Read more

  Posted on 04 May 2015 HEALTH, PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Moderate Drinking Doesn’t Help Your Heart

  

  Mendelian meta-analysis and the alcohol “flush” allele.Less than a year after the massive Mendelian randomization meta-analysis published in the British... Read more

  Posted on 20 April 2015 HEALTH, PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE