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Current Affairs 2005 - Top Rated (29 items)
| Mar 26, 2005 | Headaches Fuel Revival Of Hallucinogenic Medicine Doctors Look At Magic Mushrooms And LSD As Possible Cures For A 'Terrible Affliction,'
{Finally, some real advancements in the forbidden areas of medicine] |
| Mar 20, 2005 | How Science Is Skewed to Fuel Fears of Marijuana Aside from unverifiable conjecture, supporters of the status quo on marijuana rely on a few claims that can be checked against the facts.
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| Mar 19, 2005 | Is Pot Far More Potent Than in the Past? (Dan Gardner)
"When smoking stronger pot, you smoke less and you have less exposure to tars and respiratory irritants,... so in some ways it's worth smoking the best pot you can afford." Mitch Earleywine, professor of psychology, University of Southern California
[Although cannabis in the past may not have been as strong as that grown today, high THC hash was always available that could match or was stronger than today's cannabis, so the it is a moot point] |
| Mar 11, 2005 | Canada could be a world leader in smarter drug strategies For the past three days, we have examined how the federal government's
prohibitionist approach to dealing with marijuana has utterly failed to
reduce the supply of, or demand for, the drug. Cannabis use appears to be
associated with cultural and social factors, rather than with the harshness
of the laws or the degree of their enforcement.
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| Feb 25, 2005 | It's Time for Canada to Legalize Cannabis Most arguments against cannabis legalization are moralistic, whereas the arguments in favour are pragmatic and would help to protect minors, users, and society.
The time has come to legalize cannabis.
[Straightforward and to the point. Hooray!] |
| Feb 9, 2005 | CN BC: It's No Fix, But It's The Best We Can Do For Addicts "I would bet any amount of money the U.S. has exerted extreme pressure on Canada to abort this trial," Alex Wodak, a prominent Australian addictions researcher, has said. He should know: U.S. opposition helped to abort a heroin trial in his country. It is to Ottawa's credit that Canada has resisted similar pressure from the Bush administration, whose addictions policies owe more to narrow moralism than to science, compassion or insight.
[Canada promised to crack down harder on cannabis users in return for no interference into the heroin trial?
Another example (like the war in Iraq), where we are more in tune with our European ancestors than our Commonwealth cousins.] |
| Feb 1, 2005 | Response consistency in young adolescents' drug use self-reports: a recanting rate analysis. Conclusions: The high levels of recanting uncovered cast doubts on the reliability of drug use reports from young adolescents. Failure to address this response error may lead to biased prevalence estimates, particularly within school surveys and drug education evaluation trials.
[This published study confirms suspicions when kids (or adults) are asked about drug use - they will not honestly report whether they break the law. |
| Jan 27, 2005 | PUB LTE: Canada Is Small Potatoes Among Pot Exporters ...the available evidence, including reports from the auditor general of Canada, the RCMP, the U.S. and the United Nations, shows just the opposite -- that Canada is in fact only a minor supplier of cannabis to the U.S. -
[written by Eugene Oscapella - Canadian Foundation for Drug Policy ] |
| Jan 12, 2005 | Who's Paranoid? In strict medical terms, marijuana is far safer than many foods we commonly eat. Cigarettes kill. Marijuana doesn't. And by the way, there is not a single study that says second-hand marijuana smoke causes cancer.
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