Yaba, the Madness Drug

Published January 30, 2014

Yaba, the Madness Drug
Tarun Kanti Gayen, the director of the CREA rehab center where Tarique is being treated, says: "Before 2011, we were receiving yaba clients, but the numbers were very low — 80% of our clients were heroin users… Since 2011 … Much like the growth of … Read more on Huffington Post (blog)

Molecule discovered that protects the brain from cannabis intoxication
Thus, in addition to being extremely dependent on the drug, regular users of cannabis show signs of memory loss and a lack of motivation that make quite hard their social insertion. The main active ingredient in cannabis, THC, acts … The role of … Read more on EurekAlert (press release)

The Top 10 Domestic Drug Policy Stories of 2013 [FEATURE]
Unsurprisingly, marijuana makes up a lot of the news, but there were also signs that America's decades-long incarceration fever is breaking, and even though the impulse to scapegoat the downtrodden through public benefits drug testing remains strong … Read more on Drug War Chronicle