Mai 2012

[Psychology Today] Why Does Coffee Make Us Feel So Good?

ven, 04/05/2012 - 12:59

Just try to give it up, I dare you!

We all remember that first cup of coffee; it tasted terrible. It was too hot, too bitter and too sweet but it offered the promise of alertness after a night of poor sleep. The wonderful thing about coffee is that it delivered on its promise every time; subsequently, you've never been able to walk away from it. If you've ever faced giving up on caffeinated coffee to lessen the symptoms of fibrocystic breast disease of the tremors associated with Parkinson's disease you know well the craving that can develop. Why does this happen?

[alter dropol] Berlin: Die repressive Drogenpolitik gefährdet ihre Sicherheit!

ven, 04/05/2012 - 12:54

Die Fixierung auf einen prohibitiven-repressiven Ansatz in der Drogenpolitik schadet der Allgemeinheit auf vielfältige Weise. Durch die notorische Überlastung der Polizei, anderer Strafverfolgungsbehörden und Organe der Rechtspflege wie Justiz und Strafvollzug führt es zu einer schwächeren Verfolgung anderer Straftaten.

[DHV] Greift euch doch selbst in die Hose!

ven, 04/05/2012 - 12:53

Dass "verdächtigen Personen" immer wieder bis in die Unterhose und Körperöffnungen untersucht werden, um geringe Mengen Drogen zu finden, ist gängige Praxis in Deutschland. Eine beispiellose Schikane angeblich entkriminalisierter Drogenkonsumenten.

Immer wieder erreichen mich entsprechende Berichte. Insbesondere Personen, die schon einmal als Drogenkonsumenten aufgefallen und im Polizeicomputer gespeichert sind, müssen mit solchen Schikanen rechnen. Hier ein aktuelles Beispiel, Radio Primaton, das Main-Rhön-Radio, meldet heute:

[Bundesdrogenbeauftragte] Endfassung: Gutachten zur Machbarkeit der Einführung einer Stoffgruppenregelung im Betäubungsmittelgesetz

ven, 04/05/2012 - 12:50

In der Bundesrepublik Deutschland häufen sich seit einigen Jahren Fälle des Vertriebs sogenannter Designerdrogen. So hat der Zoll allein im Jahr 2009 ca. 55.000 Päckchen auf den Luftfrachtkreuzen in Deutschland sichergestellt, weil der Verdacht auf Spice als Inhalt bestand.  Auch in der Europäischen Union wächst die Sorge um die Designerdrogen, wie sich aus dem Jahresbericht 2010 der Europäischen Beobachtungsstelle für Drogen und Drogensucht ergibt.

[MAPS] Ibogaine Therapy for Drug Addiction

ven, 04/05/2012 - 12:46

MAPS is currently studying the long-term effects of ibogaine treatment on patients presently undergoing therapy at independent ibogaine treatment centers in Mexico and New Zealand.

MAPS is collecting observational data for the first prospective ibogaine outcome studies in order to contribute to the growing scientific literature about ibogaine as a treatment for drug addiction.

https://www.maps.org/research/ibogaine/

[Jerusalem Post] 'Israel is world leader in medical marijuana use'

ven, 04/05/2012 - 12:43

Anesthesiologist and pain relief expert tells Knesset Committee on Drug Abuse that Israel is leader in the field.

Israel is the world leader in medical marijuana use, anesthesiologist and pain relief expert Dr. Bareket Schiff- Keren told the Knesset Committee on Drug Abuse on Tuesday. In addition, Israel Police representative Eyal Zilberman told the committee that medical marijuana is being sold on the black market, and the fields to grow the drug are not properly secured to prevent theft.

[FOX News] Does the war on drugs do more harm to America than actual drugs?

ven, 04/05/2012 - 12:42

Unlike Bill Clinton, President Obama admits he inhaled!. “Frequently,” he said. “That was the point.” People laugh when politicians talk about their drug use. The audience laughed during a 2003 CNN Democratic presidential primary debate when John Kerry, John Edwards and Howard Dean admitted smoking weed. Yet those same politicians oversee a cruel system that now stages SWAT raids on people’s homes more than 100 times a day. People die in these raids -- some weren’t even the intended targets of the police.

[Huffington Post] Ramarley Graham, Unarmed Teen, Illegally Killed By New York Police, Lawyer Says

ven, 04/05/2012 - 12:40

NEW YORK -- A week after police shot to death an unarmed 18-year-old in his grandmother's Bronx apartment, questions continue to swirl around the aggressive police tactics that led to the fatal confrontation.

Ramarley Graham died last Thursday after Richard Haste, 30, a New York police officer, entered his grandmother's apartment and shot Graham in the chest while he attempted to flush a bag of marijuana down the toilet. Graham was unarmed and police did not have a warrant to enter the home.

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