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The research is the first to look at the impact of a single low dose of the drug (Source: iStockphoto) One Hit Of Ecstasy 'Resets Body C...

Marijuana-Infused Wine: The New High? -- This Week Looking for a new way to get buzzed? You're in luck: California winemakers are liveni...

National Institute of Psychiatry's Director Maria Elena Medina speaks about the patent of a new vaccine that could reduce addiction to h...

1943: Albert Hofmann accidentally discovers the psychedelic properties of LSD. From Wired: Hofmann, a Swiss chemist, was researching the syn...

Opium crop from the Malwa region of India. Credit: Wikimedia From Cosmos/AFP: PARIS: Researchers have discovered the genes that allow the op...

From Cosmos/AFP: WASHINGTON: The longer people use cannabis or marijuana, the more likely they are to experience hallucinations or delusions...

Researchers are investigating new ways for developing a novel painkiller based on natural compounds found in the venom of scorpions. (Credit...

The researchers found ecstasy takers performed worse than other groups as tasks became harder or more complex (Source: Getty Images/) From A...

From Discover Magazine: Even as California sinks under a massive budget crisis, the $8.7 million the state used to research the use of marij...

Finding Antibodies Medical hide and seek could get a boost from Google Tolerx, Inc From Popular Science: Google has quietly put millions of...

From Times Online: Researchers warned that there is no 'safe' amount of cocaine to use, after a study found that up to 3 per cent of...

From Live Science: Teens who listen to music that mentions marijuana are significantly more likely to use the drug, a new study finds. The r...

Daily consumption of cannabis in teens can cause depression and anxiety, and have an irreversible long-term effect on the brain. (Credit: iS...

Cocaine Bricks DEA From Popular Science: Cocaine's a hell of a drug, and even more so when laced with another drug that's commonly ...

Tamiflu tablets may shorten bouts of illness by a day or two, reviewers say. Photograph: Leonhard Foeger/Reuters From The Guardian: Review p...

Skunk worse than ordinary hash Photo: Getty From The Telegraph: People who smoke the highly potent form of cannabis known as skunk are alm...

Could be fatal (Image: Miguel Villagran/Getty) From New Scientist: DEATHS in US police custody during the early 1990s may have been the resu...

A man snorting cocaine. Photograph: Andy Drysdale/ADR From The Guardian: A third chemical – cocaethylene – builds up in the liver over a num...

From Time Magazine: On Oct. 19, the U.S. Justice Department announced that federal prosecutors would not pursue medical-marijuana users and ...

Photo: Nanoparticles filled with nitric oxide Courtesy of Albert Einstein College of Medicine From Discover Magazine: Tiny drug-carrying ba...