Responsible Pot Use, Responsible Parenting: What's The Problem?
I suspect most of us have personally witnessed the disruption to someone's life that results when, for any of a number of possible reasons, a parent's marijuana smoking becomes known to the state's child welfare agency. Sometimes it is because the … Read more on Marijuana.com

When racism wears a badge
Enormous numbers of African Americans have been victimized by the "war on drugs" that has resulted in the literal criminalization of African American communities. To take only one statistic illustrating the disparities, African Americans are 13 percent … Read more on Socialist Worker Online

The Task: Find Ways To Fight Heroin
National health agencies, the Drug Enforcement Administration and others have reported an increase in heroin addiction throughout the nation. And they say it's fueled by people looking for something to replace the high of prescription pain pills that … Read more on WYPR

New Directions treatment center moves to Atlantic Avenue in Boerum Hill
It's a new beginning for New Directions, a treatment facility in Brooklyn. A ribbon-cutting ceremony was held at its brand-new home on Atlantic Avenue in Boerum Hill, which is just a few blocks from its old Park Slope location. New Directions not only … Read more on News 12 Brooklyn

York County officials praise Good Samaritan bill for drug overdoses
The bill also notes that these immunities will not prevent punitive action for people who deliver or distribute a controlled substance or are involved in a drug-induced homicide. Law enforcement and prosecutors will … Naloxone: The legislation would … Read more on York Dispatch

Jury selected in John Allen English intoxication manslaughter trial, testimony …
The results from the secondary facility were excluded from state's evidence in today's hearing. … Mark Butler, a trauma nurse, testified to finding a small bag of a white, crystal-like substance believed to be methamphetamine on English during his … Read more on inForney.com

DEA Releases Final Rule On Disposal Of Controlled Substances
On September 9, 2014, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) released notice of a final rule governing the disposal of controlled substances (the "Final Rule"). The Final Rule implements the Secure and Responsible Drug Disposal Act of 2010 (the … Read more on Mondaq News Alerts (registration)

Combined therapies: New tools for addiction and illness for mental health …
At Confidential Care, the Jayachandrans designed an out-patient detoxification program to avoid the disruption of in-patient care for addiction treatment. As Dr. Sanker Jayachandran, who is board certified in Addiction Psychiatry explains, by offering … Read more on nwitimes.com

Hydrocodone Restrictions Spark Discussions of Addiction and Abuse
Hydrocodone restrictions recently implemented by the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) have sparked debate in the ongoing discussion about prescription drug abuse and put addiction treatment in the spotlight. The DEA's decision to enact more … Read more on Guardian Liberty Voice

Drug czar promotes treatment, tells personal story
MINOT, N.D. — As the nation's drug czar continues to warn people about the potential death and destruction from substance abuse, he's also encouraging them to tell their stories about treatment and recovery. Usually he starts with himself. Michael … Read more on Merced Sun-Star

Question by Wait! U Mad Bro??!!: OK MARIJUANA AND LSD DEBATE?
Allright, so my friend is a smoker right, he doesn’t smoke ALL the time, but he still smokes. so we were having a debate on LSD and Marijuana effect on the brain when they are ABUSED. I said, if you abuse both substances, they could lead to brain damage, but he insists that only LSD does this. He literally says Marijuana will not have an effect on the brain if it is abused. I told him it will and sited a medical book as my source. He then tells me that the book is biased and that he’s done many research on the drug and is sure it doesn’t effect the brain in any way. DOES THAT MAKE SENCE?!!!
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Answer by bravozulu
Effect should be modified to negative effect. The word “abused” is subjective and even leading. Damage is also somewhat subjective and the word “could” doesn’t have much meaning either. It could be one chance in a billion or 50/50.

THC most definitely has an effect on the brain and it potentially has profound effects on the mind. The changes are due to activating cannabinoid receptors. Those change other neurotransmitters and it changes how the brain functions. There isn’t much long term change and probably no permanent damage. He probably meant that no permanent or even temporary harm was done. That is probably true unless the dose is far beyond normal usage.

LSD is extremely non toxic. The changes are very temporary. This statement from wikipedia is consistent with statements from all the medical doctors I have heard.
“LSD is non-addictive, is not known to cause brain damage, and has extremely low toxicity relative to dose, although in rare cases adverse psychiatric reactions such as anxiety or delusions are possible.”

The later anxiety and delusions are sometimes described as flashbacks and it is generally believed that they are memories of your altered conscious thoughts. You remember feeling paranoid or whatever you experienced so there is potential for permanent psychological damage. The same is logically true for THC though most people don’t normally react badly to it. There are certainly exceptions though.

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House Votes to End DEA Raids on Legal Medical Marijuana Businesses
The Huffington Post adds that medical marijuana dispensaries have faced the wrath of both the DEA and the Obama administration, with the agency still considering marijuana a Schedule I substance, meaning it has high potential for abuse and no accepted … Read more on Complex.com

What the legalization of marijuana has meant for children
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Mississippi, home to federal government's official stash of marijuana
Researchers can't get anything from the 46-year-old Marijuana Research Project at Ole Miss unless the Drug Enforcement Administration gives the go-ahead. A panel on which the National Institute on Drug Abuse is represented often must sign off too. Read more on Los Angeles Times

Community conversations lead to community solutions
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'He hates the label of drug dealer'
After the incident, Booker voluntarily checked himself into the Rainbow Center, a substance abuse treatment center in Monroe, Mich. Mayer said his client was in the program for about seven months and for the last several weeks, he's been participating … Read more on Norwalk Reflector

'We're all paying:' Heroin spreads misery in US
FILE – This May 1999 file photo provided by the DEA shows a circa 1900 Bayer aspirin advertisement featuring heroin as an ingredient, part of an exhibit at the new Drug Enforcement Administration Museum and Visitors Center in Arlington, Va. Heroin … Read more on Modesto Bee

Clark anti-drug program gets statewide attention
DeWine heaped praise on Smoot at the Drug Abuse Community Forum at Springfield High School this month and has been so impressed with Smoot's work that he presented her with the state's inaugural Distinguished Civilian Leadership Award in October. Read more on Dayton Daily News

Fighting prescription drug abuse among wounded soldiers uneven, report says
Currently, these "take-back" programs are conducted only twice a year at military installations under the legally required auspices of the federal Drug Enforcement Administration. The inspector general said the Pentagon should speed efforts to obtain … Read more on The Journal News | LoHud.com