200 Gehirne Drogentoter untersucht - Langfristiger Drogenkonsum führt zur vorzeitigen Degeneration des Gehirns

Drogen können einer Studie der Universität Rostock zufolge im menschlichen Gehirn komplexe Netzwerke von Nerven und Blutgefäßen zerstören oder zumindest schwer schädigen. Dies sei das Ergebnis einer Untersuchung von mehr als 200 Gehirnen Drogentoter im Alter zwischen 15 und 45 Jahren, sagte der Rostocker Rechtsmediziner Andreas Büttner am Freitag.

derstandard.at

For generations, pro-marijuana Californians have hid their dope preference from their parents, their teachers and their co-workers.

And now, perhaps, from their pollsters.

The campaign team behind Proposition 19, which is working to legalize, tax and regulate marijuana for Californians over 21, has noticed an odd trend among public and internal polls on the measure: People are less likely to tell a live person that they support legalizing pot than an automated pollster.

sfgate.com

According to Gallup , 46 percent of Americans favor legalizing pot. Doesn't that suggest that if California's Prop 19, the ballot initiative to legalize marijuana, passes that other states will follow suit? After all, what state isn't facing hard budgetary times and wouldn't like some extra taxes from pot sales rolling in.

nypost.com

Of all the arguments that have been used to demonize marijuana, few have been more powerful than that of the "gateway effect": the notion that while marijuana itself may not be especially dangerous, it ineluctably leads to harder drugs like heroin and cocaine. Even Nick Kristof — in a column favoring marijuana legalization — alluded to it this week in the New York Times.

time.com