June 1st, 2011
New Drug Developed to Erase Bad Memories
We all have memories that we all would like to forget. Mistakes made in the past, poor choices, we all realize our problems and do our best to forget them, but sometimes the strength of our memory does not permit us to. This may all be coming to a change. Around a week ago, researchers […]
May 24th, 2011
Summer’s near, but are all sunscreens safe?
The sun is peaking out, and with it sunscreen sales are once again on the rise, but according to the Environmental Working Group’s (EWG) 5th annual guide to sunscreen products, not all sunscreens are created equal. In fact, out of the 600 sunscreens the EWG evaluated, only one in five ...
May 23rd, 2011
House-sitter Feeds Child Marijuana-laced Margarine
To be fair, the label on the tub was correct when it said “I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter.” However, it was correct for all the wrong reasons, as it contained not butter, but marijuana-laced margarine. That was what was found in the refrigerator of Stevie C. Hickey, a ...
May 17th, 2011
Pittsburgh Heroin use at record breaking levels
Generally perceived as an inner city drug, heroin has made its way to the Pitsburgh suburbs, breaking out of its former demographics, as well as breaking records. In one example given in an article by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, a substitute teacher for the Creative and Performing Arts high ...
May 16th, 2011
Prescription Drug Abuse Linked with Increase of Internet Access
With the rising growth of prescription drug abuse, researchers have been trying to determine the cause. The Massachusetts General Hospital and the University of Southern California recently suggested that it may in fact be related to the people’s ever-increasing access to the internet and ...
May 10th, 2011
Mexicans protest against Calderon and the drug war
According to articles by the LA Times, the Mexican people are increasingly fed up with the violence that rages within their country. On May 8, the times reported to protest of “tens of thousands of demonstrators […] call[ing] for an end to the country’s unrelenting drug ...
May 9th, 2011
Growing weed? Caught by Police? Pay a fee, get off scott free! (relatively)
Mendocino County, CA, is undergoing a unique shift in its marijuana policy which is causing some controversy, according to Press Democrat. The idea, implemented by Mendocino County District Attorney David Eyster, allows those who’ve been charged with felony marijuana cultivation to knock ...
May 2nd, 2011
WA Gov Gregoire Vetoes Medical Marijuana Bill
For anyone following the progress of the medical marijuana bill in WA State, the fact that Gov. Chris Gregoire vetoed a bill, which the Seattle times is calling a “Landmark Expansion of the State’s Medical-Merijuana Law”, should be no surprise. She has gone on record a few ...
April 28th, 2011
E-Cigarettes To be Regulated as Tobacco
After two years of deliberation, the Federal Drug Administration has decided to regulate Electronic Cigarettes as a tobacco product. The suit began in 2009, when Sottera, a manufacturer of e-cigarettes based in Arizona, sued the FDA after they determined that e-cigarettes were “unapproved ...
April 25th, 2011
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April 21st, 2011
Teenager forces Grandmother to smoke Marijuana
In addition to forcing her to write him a check and threatening her life, Andrew Jordan Demkowich, a Pennsylvania teenager allegedly made his elderly grandmother smoke a marijuana cigarette with him. Demkowich is facing many criminal charges as a result of this incident. He was arrested from ...
April 18th, 2011
Medical Marijuana Industry Booming
With 15 states as well as the District of Columbia deeming it legal, medical marijuana has become a rising profitable industry in the United States. Medical marijuana has been shown to assist in alleviating chronic pain and hurtful symptoms of diseases such as AIDS or cancer, and patients in ...
April 18th, 2011
Drugs and Their Effects – Dissociative Drugs
Dissociative drugs blog certain signals within the brain and result in various hallucinogenic effects. Within this category are Ketamine, PCP, Salvia and Dextromethorphan (DXM). Of these drugs, Salvia and DXM are available over the counter. Salvia is legal in most states in the U.S. and ...
April 15th, 2011
Drugs and Their Effects – Hallucinogens (LSD, Mescaline, Mushrooms)
In the realm of hallucinogens, there are three major contenders, LSD, Mescaline, and Psilocbin or Magic Mushrooms. Collectively, these drugs are considered as some of the least harmful on the market, with LSD coming in 18th and mushrooms coming in 19th. Drugs ranked more harmful include ...
April 13th, 2011
Heroin Addiction Growing in St. Louis
The St. Louis Metro area has seen a rise of heroin addiction in the recent years with an estimated one person dying a day due to overdose. To make matters worse, St. Louis treatment centers are becoming so overwhelmed with addicts that the necessary resources for aid are becoming scarce. For ...
