Dirk Hanson

New PET scans show wide responses to antibodies. One of the brightest hopes of addiction science has been the idea of a vaccinean antibody that would scavenge for drug molecules, bind to them, and make it impossible for them to cross the blood-brain barrier and go to work. But there are dozens of go...
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RAND researcher nails it neatly. Ive been meaning to offer up the key points from an excellent column on marijuana legalization that appeared in April in USA Today. Beau Kilmer, a senior policy researcher at the RAND Corporation, lists the new and tricky issues that Colorado and Washington forgot to...
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Some number crunching at bluelight.ru. A fantastic set of interactive graphics tracking conversational trends in drugs at the chat board bluelight.ru reveals some surprises, to the delight of data journalists everywhere. Virostatiq, a software package authored by Marko Plahuta, was put to the task o...
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Relax, broits just a blowtorch. It is called dabbing, and it is something the marijuana legalization movement would rather you didnt know about. As crack is to powdered cocaine, so a dab is to a joint of marijuana the same drug, in a much more concentrated form. But butane hash oil, or BHO, the end ...
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World No Smoking Day....
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