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1 A Historical Overview
Books/The Gentlemen's Club Saturday, 07 May 2011
... for the treatment, rehabilitation, and care of drug addicts. The Single Convention nevertheless left outside its scope a number of substances which were causing disquiet in several countries and were ...
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Chapter 3 The pharmacology of cannabis: issues for understanding its use
Manuals/Cannabis Reader Sunday, 24 April 2011
... effects of the substance, and what physical and neurological changes are brought about by the product? What can be said about the varying effects of dosage, route of administration, the type of product ...
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Chapter 9 An open front door: the coffee shop phenomenon in the Netherlands
Manuals/Cannabis Reader Monday, 18 April 2011
... 329-341. Kraus, L., Bauernfeind, R. (1998), 'Reprasentativerhebung zum Gebrauch psychoaktiver Substanzen bei Erwachsenen in Deutschland 1997' (Population survey on the consumption of psychoactive substances ...
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10 Maintenance treatment
Reports/Models of Good Practice in Drug Treatment Sunday, 20 March 2011
... of drug dependence by prescription of a substitute drug (agonists and antagonists) for which cross-dependence and cross-tolerance exists, with the goal to reduce or eliminate the use of a particular substance, ...
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PSYCHEDELICS AND RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE
Books/The Psychedelics Friday, 18 March 2011
... the difference is in its substance or dimension. I realize that fruit flies must think of themselves as people, because, like ourselves, they find themselves in the middle of their own world—with immeasurably ...
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Chapter 5 CONGRESS AND DECRIMINALIZATION: A SYMBOLIC ROLE
Books/Marijuana Use and Criminal Sanctions Tuesday, 08 February 2011
... of the Judiciary Committee (which does have legislative jurisdiction over the penal provision of the Controlled Substances Act) held hearings. The Chairman, Senator Bayh (who was launching a tentative ...
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EFFECTS IN MAN OF SHORT- AND LONG-TERM USE OF CANNABIS SATIVA
Reports/Marihuana and Health Thursday, 20 January 2011
... scientific point of view, the literature is as clear, if not clearer, than for many other botanical substances consumed by man. Most of the older reports suffer from multiple scientific defects such as ...
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7. The Psychology of Cannabis—Techniques for Investigating the Frequency and Patterns of Use of Cannabis in Groups of Drug Users
Books/Cannabis and Man Saturday, 11 September 2010
... substance cannabis. Contemporaneous with reports of these negative effects much was written about the relaxing, positive, creative and enhancing effects of the drug. Thus before an individual could take ...
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6 THE CHANGING MEANINGS OF MARIJUANA USE II
Books/Marijuana Use and Social Control Saturday, 11 September 2010
... boring, and no longer generate the sense of privileged insight or understanding referred to with such emphasis in the testimonies just cited. There is undeniably some substance to this argument, if only ...
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Chapter Fifteen The Official Story Debunking "Gutter Science"
Books/The Emperor Wears No Clothes Wednesday, 02 June 2010
... arbitrary and capricious for the DEA to continue to stand between those sufferers and the benefits of this substance in light of the evidence in this record. In strict medical terms, ...
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REFERENCES AND SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Reports/Le Dain Cannabis Report Sunday, 07 March 2010
... toxic and dangerous substance-a study of eighty takers. British Journal of the Addictions, 1966, 61: 269-282. 119. Charen, S., & Perelman, L. Personality studies of marihuana addicts. American Journal ...
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REFERENCES
Reports/WHO: The Use of Cannabis Monday, 01 March 2010
... drugs and hallucinogenic substances. A progress report submitted to the California Legislature as required by Chapter 1437, Statutes of 1968, Sacra-mento, California State Department of Education Cameron, ...
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ENFORCING LAWS AGAINST CONSENSUAL ACTIVITIES DESTROYS PEOPLE'S LIVES
Books/Ain't Nobody's Business If You Do Sunday, 14 February 2010
... nature" is fair game. They can dismantle and destroy anything that might hold any illegal substance—and, considering how compact certain drugs are, this means that they can dismantle and destroy anything. ...
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CHAPTER VI PATHOLOGY TOLERANCE—DEPENDENCE—WITHDRAWAL
Books/The Opium Problem Tuesday, 19 January 2010
... recovery of injected oxalic acid in the excreta of dogs explained the fact that tolerance to this substance was not developed and that conversely the ability of the organism to destroy morphin accounted ...
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APPENDIX B
Reports/Le Dain Interim Report Thursday, 14 January 2010
... in the hands of irresponsible and immature adolescents and adults (I might add) for whom the abuse of this substance is an escape from the responsibilities and realities of life to the degree that it interferes ...
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Background
Reports/An Analysis of Marijuana Policy Wednesday, 13 January 2010
... the charter granted in the National Academy of sciences by the Congress of the United states An Analysis of Marijuana Policy Committee on Substance Abuse and Habitual Behavior Commission on Behavioral ...
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INFORMAL SOCIAL CONTROLS AND THEIR INFLUENCE ON SUBSTANCE USE
Books/Control Over Intoxicant Use Monday, 11 January 2010
INFORMAL SOCIAL CONTROLS AND THEIR INFLUENCE ON SUBSTANCE USE INFORMAL SOCIAL CONTROLS AND THEIR INFLUENCE ON SUBSTANCE USE Deborah Maloff * Howard S. Becker* Arlene Fonaroff* Judith Rodin* This ...
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Toward a Psychedelic Medicine
Articles/Psychedelics Thursday, 07 January 2010
... and Goals This paper seeks to delineate the need for a fusion of many existing areas of study into a new discipline that focuses on practice, research and study of the use of psychedelic substances as ...
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Psychedelics and Religious Experience
Articles/Psychedelics Tuesday, 05 January 2010
... situation. For example, the poor man worries about money while the rich man worries about his health: the worry is the same, but the difference is in its substance or dimension. I realize that fruit flies ...
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Drugs, Drug Use, and Criminalization
Articles/Psychedelics Tuesday, 05 January 2010
... used to measure the quantity of given drugs can be peculiar. Since statutes typically refer to a "mixture or substance containing a detectable amount" of a drug, the weight of the entire mixture or substance ...