this is Professor David Nutt's recent paper as of october 2009. on estimating the harm of drugs; a risky business?
this was done for The Centre for Crime and Justice
Studies (CCJS) at King’s College
London is an independent charity
that informs and educates about all
aspects of crime and...
A medical marijuana regulation ordinance proposed to the L.A. City Council by City Attorney Carmen Trutanich would cost $36 - $74 million in lost tax revenues plus untold additional enforcement costs, according to an analysis by California NORML.
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No Ritalin, No Education? * **
New public education campaign spotlights the use of psycho-stimulants to*modify the behavior of school children
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* Neurocognitive Enhancement Report
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CCLE in the News Focus
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Article from Bath Chronicle, Bath local newspaper, about Respect West Country's photo opportunity in support of Release's Nice People Take Drugs Campaign
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Hi all
Respect is a drug user group that has recently been formed in the West of England (known as the West Country). We are holding a photo opportunity in support of Release's Nice People Take Drugs campaign. Attached is the flyer for the event.
Best wishes
Mat Respect
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A monograph prepared for the UK Drug Policy Commission
Peter Reuter, Alex Stevens
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De Marneffe, Peter. (2003). Against the legalization of heroin. Criminal Justice Ethics, 22: 34-40.
Background: On December 29, 2002, the American Philosophical Assocation's Committee on the Philosophy of Law sponsored a symposium on the [sic] drug legalization at the Annual Meeting of APA's...
Hunt, Lester H. (2003). Epilogue: What Good are Drugs Anyway?. Criminal Justice Ethics, 22: 46-49.
Background: On December 29, 2002, the American Philosophical Assocation's Committee on the Philosophy of Law sponsored a symposium on the [sic] drug legalization at the Annual Meeting of APA's...
Shapiro, Daniel (2003). Individual Rights, Drug Policy, and the Worst-Case Scenario. Criminal Justice Ethics, 22: 41-45.
Background: On December 29, 2002, the American Philosophical Assocation's Committee on the Philosophy of Law sponsored a symposium on the [sic] drug legalization at the Annual...
Sher, George. (2003). On the decriminalization of drugs. Criminal Justice Ethics, 22: 30-33.
Background: On December 29, 2002, the American Philosophical Assocation's Committee on the Philosophy of Law sponsored a symposium on the [sic] drug legalization at the Annual Meeting of APA's Eastern...
Husak, Douglas N. (2003). Four points about drug decriminalization. Criminal Justice Ethics, 22: 21-29.
Background: On December 29, 2002, the American Philosophical Assocation's Committee on the Philosophy of Law sponsored a symposium on the [sic] drug legalization at the Annual Meeting of APA's...
Kerr T, Small W, Johnston C, Li K, Montaner JS, & Wood E. (2008). Characteristics of injection drug users who participate in drug dealing: implications for drug policy. Journal of Psychoactive Drugs, 40(2):147-52.
Abstract: So-called "balanced" drug policy couples enforcement initiatives...
O. Hayden Griffin III, Bryan Lee Miller and David N. Khey. Journal of Psychoactive Drugs 40.2 (June 2008): p183(9).
The legal status of the hallucinogenic plant Salvia divinorum has been rapidly changing. Legal prohibitions on this plant native to Oaxaca, Mexico have emerged at the state level,...
Canadian researchers in Vancouver, designed a trial following in the footsteps of similar research in Switzerland, The Netherlands, Germany and Spain, to address the issue of heroin treatment for the most difficult patients addicted to opiates. In other words, patients, for which traditional...
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The Beckley Foundation, March 2009
Dave Bewley-Taylor, Chris Hallam, Rob Allen
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Centre for Policy Studies publication
Author: Kathy Gyngell
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Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
Bruce Alexander
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Looks at drug use harms and drug prohibition/regulation harms
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Glenn Greenwald
Executive Summary
On July 1, 2001, a nationwide law in Portugal took effect that decriminalized all drugs, including cocaine and heroin. Under the new legal framework, all drugs were "decriminalized," not "legalized." Thus, drug possession for personal use and drug usage itself...
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Obama town hall meeting regarding marijuana and the economy
ABSTRACT: The medical discipline of narcology in Russia is a subspecialty of psychiatry from the Soviet era and it is given warrant to define the scope of health activities with regard to alcohol and other drug use, drug users,...
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PLoS Medicine 2008 Dec 9;5(12):e234
Cohen JE, Amon JJ
BACKGROUND: Although confinement in drug detoxification ("detox") and re-education through labor (RTL) centers is the most common form of treatment for drug dependence in China, little has been published about the experience of drug...
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Ben Sessa and Amanda Fielding
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Motor vehicles are the most common form of transportation in the US and the greatest cause of accidental death in this
country. Many factors contribute to motor vehicle accidents including highway and vehicle design, traffic density, and
driver error due to experience and skill. However, the...
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Authors: Henry Greely, Barbara Sahakian, John Harris, Ronald C. Kessler, Michael Gazzaniga, Philip Campbell & Martha J. Farah
Society must respond to the growing demand for cognitive enhancement. That response must start by rejecting the idea that 'enhancement' is a dirty word.