Legal recreational cannabis use comes with an increase in innovation – but tends to focus on what marketers and businesses are interested in, rather than health benefits and risks.
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Urology departments in England and Wales have seen an increase in users admitted for bladder inflammation caused by ketamine use.
The low cost and easy availability of recreational nitrous oxide makes it an easy drug of choice, particularly for young people.
Certain drugs can prolong and enhance sexual pleasure, but there are dangers involved.
Several children have died after attempting these social media crazes.
What exactly is ketamine and what is its role in the treatment of depression?
Provincial governments should follow the federal government’s lead by revisiting their cannabis policies to improve them.
While the pandemic was often blamed for 2020-2021’s strong recreational cannabis sales growth, the boost in sales was more likely due to existing trends, added stores and new products.
Whipping cream canisters contain nitrous oxide, which some people use to get high. But going ahead with a proposal before the TGA to ban them altogether would be an overreaction.
Governments often blame citizens for social outcomes which are the result of their own policies.
Illicit and legitimate trade are closely connected, so how come one seems to be rising while the other has plunged?
Prices are surging amid shortages and panic-buying – and we could soon be facing a public health disaster.
Pot taxes will change the ability of some to purchase recreational marijuana.
As marijuana legalization looms and we we contemplate the future of cannabis sales in Canada, there are still lots of questions for both the public and government to consider.
Canadian drug policy began to take shape well before anti-immigration attacks on Chinese establishments in 1908. Drugs like opium and coke were causing grave public health concerns.
Most recreational users get their drugs from ‘social suppliers’. Law enforcement should concentrate on organised crime instead.
Patients in 29 states rely on medical marijuana to treat pain, nausea, seizures and other ailments. But all that could change.
“Nangs” are cheap, legal and easy to get - but like most drugs, they are also highly dangerous.
Parents can help protect their kids from cannabis abuse by openly discussing the health risks, the pleasures and the responsible ways to use the drug.
The trend toward marijuana legalization is growing, but the legality, or illegality, of cannabis at the federal level hasn’t changed at all.
Top contributors
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Professor of Operations Research, Brock University
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Senior lecturer, Australian National University
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Professor & Specialist in Drug Policy, UNSW
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Professor, Mental Health and Addiction, Rural Health Research Institute, Charles Sturt University
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Professor of Marketing, University of Toronto
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Adjunct Professor at the National Drug Research Institute (Melbourne based), Curtin University
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Senior Lecturer of Addiction, Edith Cowan University
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Professor in Criminal Justice and Faculty Director of Public Engagement, University of Kent
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Professor of Pharmacy Practice, University of West London
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Associate Professor, National Drug Research Institute / enAble Institute, Curtin University
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Assistant Professor, Rochester Institute of Technology
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Lecturer in Transnational Crime, King's College London
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Honorary Fellow, Department of Health Sciences, University of York
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Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Political Philosophy, Australian National University
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Professor of Criminology and Sociology, University of Liverpool