Dirk Hanson

Drug treatments for marijuana withdrawal. Sometimes its easy to forget that marijuana is the most widely used illegal drug of all. We demonize it, yet we take it for granted. We punish citizens for its possession, but we call it a soft drug. The idea of marijuana as an addictive drug--for some but b...
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DEA makes synthetic marijuana a Schedule 1 drug. The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration DEA exercised its emergency scheduling authority yesterday to outlaw the use of fake pot products. Sixteen states have already passed a mishmash of legislation outlawing one or more of the drugs in question, wh...
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Are young smokers risking cognitive impairment as adults Call it nicolescence. Its that time of life when certain 18-and-unders discover cigarettes. Most adult smokers begin their habit before the age of 19, and a majority of adolescents have tried cigarettes at least once. But for some of themthose...
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Smoke-free workplace or job discrimination It started with hospitals and medical businesses. As more and more states adopted strict policies about smoking, state courts began to bump up against a vexing questionthe legal system is being called upon to adjudicate the legality of refusing to hire smok...
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Review of This River by James Brown. James Brown, author of The L.A. Diaries, has offered up another candid and courageous memoir in his new book, This River. In a series of related vignettes, the book amplifies and extends the basic story of Browns life as chronicled in L.A. Diaries,--a harrowing t...
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