Chilling news about Molly!

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-mdma-linked-to-10-chicagoarea-deaths-20131031,0,7295194.story

A drug to help detect Alzheimer's :)

http://health.usnews.com/health-news/news/articles/2013/10/25/brain-imaging-drug-approved-for-alzheimers-detection

Mayor on crack

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504083_162-57610218-504083/alleged-drug-video-involving-mayor-rob-ford-reportedly-obtained-by-toronto-police/

Drug tunnel found!!!!

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57610202/major-drug-tunnel-found-on-u.s.-mexico-border-3-arrested/

FDA targets prescription drug shortages

http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-fda-targets-prescription-drug-shortages-20131031,0,7286640.story#axzz2jLiHr5lB

Massive drug tunnel discovered in bust

http://www.cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video/us/2013/10/31/erin-inside-drug-tunnel-marquez-report.cnn.html

Time to End the War on Drugs and Legalize Meth

I found this while doing research and wanted to share.

http://www.policymic.com/articles/4595/time-to-end-the-war-on-drugs-and-legalize-meth

New drug tunnel found from Tijuana to San Diego

http://news.msn.com/us/major-drug-tunnel-found-on-us-mexico-border

U.S. Sham Corporations Aid Drug Lords

Drug lords getting richer. War on Drugs continues to be ineffective.

http://www.cnn.com/2013/10/25/opinion/ostfeld-lerner-money-laundering/index.html?iref=storysearch

For those who are interested in the PEDs in sports debate, here is a great starting point.
http://sportsanddrugs.procon.org/

Teens smoking more weed than cigarettes.

Maybe some could say they saw this coming?

http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/06/11/study-more-teens-smoking-pot-than-cigarettes/

Mexican Military refused to arrest Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman

http://www.sandiegored.com/noticias/37061/Mexican-Military-refused-to-arrest-Joaquin-El-Chapo-Guzman/

Interesting article to show how pride can get in the way of a common goal to the US and Mexico.

Israeli Drug Trials Investigate MDMA, Known as Ecstasy, as a Treatment for PTSD

http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-life-and-religion/147990/mdma-drug-trial-for-ptsd

The Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies has found some cases in which MDMA has helped with the traumas of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder as a form of therapeutic treatment. Yet another case of psychedelic drugs being a benefit to the field of psychology.

Highest Drug Addiction Rate in the World: Iran

I wouldn't have guessed that a country as small as Iran would have the highest drug addiction rate in the world. This article quotes UN statistics regarding the percentage of the population addicted to drugs.  It makes one wonder what particular factors in the country lead to the high rate of drug abuse.  Why Iran rather than any other country?
http://news.msn.com/world/iran-drug-addiction-rate-highest-in-world

Weed Wars

For those of you who have a netflix account, they just added a documentary about medical marijuana called "Weed Wars" 

hopefully this link works, if not just search the movie title on netflix

http://movies.netflix.com/WiPlayer?movieid=70291413&trkid=13462064&t=Weed%2BWars&tctx=4%2C5%2C3f4a4c6d-01ea-4f25-b36d-d99fb43758b7-113496453

Drug use among Truck drivers inevitable?

This article presents an interesting point of view among truck drivers that use drugs while on the job. It looks at different regions of the world and its drug use among them

 http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/10/131021211714.htm

Havocscope: Global Black Market Information

Great site for research paper stats!
Really interesting website that breaks down the cost of everything sold on the black market
Be sure to check out: drug profits, drug prices by country, substance abuse stats, etc.
http://www.havocscope.com/category/substance-abuse/

http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/Press_releases/2006/07_11_06.html

This link is for those interested in clinical studies with psychedelics.

You need to post links as "links" rather than cut and paste, please!!!!

It's a pain to get to the links otherwise, cause they won't be active.

Please fill out this form before our library visit!!!

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?usp=drive_web&formkey=dDBoZXV6MWxLTDB1Njd6YVVFU1d2SHc6MA#gid=0

Starting a campaign about prescription drug abuse

http://missoulian.com/news/local/montana-meth-project-launches-prescription-drug-abuse-campaign/article_f1ab159e-3b75-11e3-b4d0-001a4bcf887a.html

Horrifying New Drugs! Does New Zealand's New Synthetic Drug Law Offer a Safer Way Forward?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/eric-e-sterling/horrifying-new-drugs-does_b_4102575.html

Mexico City Legalizing Marijuana

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/15/mexico-city-legalize-marijuana_n_4101475.html

The Most Dangerous Drug in the World

My friend just showed me this article and video about Scopolamine which was very insightful.  I had never heard of the drug and was terrified that you could blow this substance into someone's face and they basically do whatever you say while being completely competent.  I invite you to watch the video at the end of the article, as it's very interesting!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2143584/Scopolamine-Powerful-drug-growing-forests-Colombia-ELIMINATES-free-will.html

Guns To Mexico

Operation Fast and Furious, a program run by the ATF giving arms to cartels in Mexico

Interview with the Dread Pirate Roberts - operator of the Silk Road

http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2013/08/14/an-interview-with-a-digital-drug-lord-the-silk-roads-dread-pirate-roberts-qa/

War on Drugs

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/08/drug-war-mass-incarceration_n_3034310.html

How Drug Enforcement is Failing

The temporal relationship between drug supply indicators: an audit of international government surveillance systems.

found this gem on my twitter timeline and I had to share…

California Governor Vetoes Bill

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lynne-lyman/california-jerry-brown-sb-649_b_4108890.html

Krokodil- Synthetic form of heroin from Russia

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/eric-e-sterling/horrifying-new-drugs-does_b_4102575.html

Sanho Tree talk next Thurs.

Why Drugs Should Be Legalized

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/harvard-economist-jeffrey-miron-on-why-drugs-should-be-legalized-a-886289.html

This links to an article detailing the interview of a Harvard Economist and why he thinks drugs should be legalized in America. Really interesting take on the War on Drugs from a monetary side. 

Honduras: fighting drug violence with military violence

After watching "Breaking the Taboo", I thought it was interesting to see that Honduras is now entrenched in a military-style ani-drug campaign. This tactic did not seem effective in Colombia and Mexico, according to the film. Will such actions work in Honduras?

This article is from the New York Times, posted yesterday, giving an overview of the situation.
http://nyti.ms/19JiOsk

Link to Citation website

Someone was asking for it so I thought I would throw it up on the blog.
http://bcs.bedfordstmartins.com/resdoc5e/

(Research Report about..) How in Denmark you can get two doses a day of lab grade heroin for free from the gov't. The result of this program lowered crime rates, saving tax payers $16,122 per addict in 2005

Cost utility analysis of co-prescribed heroin compared with methadone maintenance treatment in heroin addicts in two randomised trials

Try this link for Breaking the Taboo

http://tinyurl.com/kpswboc

Really interesting article about President Kennedy's (and others) use of methamphetamines

http://nypost.com/2013/04/21/the-kennedy-meth/

Georgia Meth Project Ads

http://georgia.methproject.org/Our-Work/view-ads.php

the georgia meth project has the craziest ads, like a weird mix between terrifying and funny. watch some here!

Working BREAKING THE TABOO Link

http://tinyurl.com/kpswboc

Click the x's on the boxes. Press play.

Texas attitudes on MMJ changing

Texas polling data. This article describes the changing public attitudes in Texas regarding MMJ and decriminalization. Further evidence that public perception of marijuana is changing all around the country and not just in liberal footholds.

Colorado farmer harvests first U.S. commercial hemp crop in 56 years

http://www.denverpost.com/breakingnews/ci_24259474/colorado-farmer-harvests-first-u-s-commercial-hemp

Interesting dialogue of weed use on reddit

Example of Comments: 

[–]TheCrimsonKing 57 points 3 years ago

Wake up, smoke, go to work at a steady job in an office downtown. Go home, smoke, walk the dog. Basically lead a mind numbingly normal life as a productive member of society while high most of the day.

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[–]grillcover 18 points 3 years ago

wow, me too. i love strolling down Wall St. high at mid-day. we're a couple-a 21st century schizoid men.

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[–][deleted] 3 points 3 years ago

I'm happy getting high all the time still happens out of college years.

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http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2013/may/18/drugspolicy-drugs-trade

This ia a good article that goes hand in hand with the film

Breaking the Taboo problems

Okay, the link I had seems to have been removed.  You can try this one, but unfortunately it has German subtitles.  Better than nothing though, right?  If anyone finds a better link, please post.

http://www.filmsforaction.org/watch/breaking_the_taboo_film/

Prescription Painkillers More Lethal Than Cocaine and Heroin

http://www.healthline.com/health-news/policy-fatal-painkiller-deaths-rising-070213

I thought this was pretty interesting! Hopefully ya'll do too! Amazing to me that some drugs are legal and others are illegal even though they are so similar.

Marijuana Tax

Here's the Boulder Weekly article on Prop. AA:

http://www.boulderweekly.com/article-11730-pot-taxes-a-sticky-issue.html

How the FBI shut down Silk Road, the online billion dollar black market bazaar

How the FBI shut down Silk Road, the online billion dollar black market bazaar

Medical Marijuana Farmers Market Opened in Seattle This Week

http://www.kirotv.com/news/news/medical-marijuana-farmers-market-opens-seattle/nbHGc/

http://www.vice.com/read/jr-smith-and-americas-out-of-control-love-affair-with-drug-tests

An interesting read about NBA players and other pro athletes that are testing positive for weed.
Also, talks about how it relates to corporate America's drug screenings for jobs and the war on drugs.  

There are 4 people (out of 12 alive today) that the receive medical marijuana from the FEDERAL government. Check it out.

U.S. government provides marijuana to four Americans, including 72-year-old Eugene woman

Health benefits of a relatively unknown cannibinoid

The beneficial health effects of marijuana are not limited to cannibidiol (CBD), apparently cannibichromene has beneficial effects as well. This article outlines some of those benefits, with links to backing research.

Anonymized Online Black Market Shutdown, Alleged Founder/Operator Arrested

FBI shuts alleged online drug marketplace, Silk Road (Reuters)
The FBI busted Silk Road, but not the 'dark web' behind it (The Verge)

The Silk Road was an anonymized marketplace for buying and selling goods and services (primarily drugs to be quite honest), using a cryptocurrency called Bitcoin. Apparently over 1.2 billion dollars worth of Bitcoins changed hands through the site. The second article contains more technical details on how the site worked.

Regulation and taxation

http://www.denverpost.com/breakingnews/ci_24062676/colorado-first-state-country-finalize-rules-recreational-pot

http://www.denverpost.com/marijuana/ci_24210625/colorado-marijuana-advocates-clash-over-tax-measure

Amendment 64

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorado_Amendment_64_(2012)

Obama's has proved to do more anti-legalization that past presidents...

Obama: From First to Worst on Medical Marijuana

http://newsjunkiepost.com/2010/02/27/five-things-you-may-‘know’-about-marijuana…-that-aren’t-true/

This is a pretty bias piece for not legalizing weed.  It can definitely fuel for some counter arguments

Prison Industrial Complex

Wikipedia is, well, wikipedia, but this article has a lot of really good linked sources at the end--so check those out.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prison–industrial_complex

Use Only As Directed

http://www.propublica.org/article/tylenol-mcneil-fda-use-only-as-directed

Marijuana: A Schedule I Drug?

Which drug would you consider more likely abused: marijuana or meth? According to the DEA, the answer is marijuana.
Here is an interesting link to the DEA website on Drug Scheduling. Should cannabis really be a Schedule I drug?
http://www.justice.gov/dea/druginfo/ds.shtml