Heroic Uruguay deserves a Nobel peace prize for legalising cannabis

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But the drugs chief, Julio Calzada, is blunt: "For 50 years, we have tried to tackle the drug problem with only one tool – penalisation – and that has failed. As a result, we now have more consumers, bigger criminal organisations, money laundering …
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Case against legalizing marijuana presented

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Tim White, Wayne County Anti-Drug Coalition and Region 5 Prevention coordinator, led a roughly hour-long presentation on marijuana — examining what it is, what it does to its users and why it should not be legalized as is being proposed to the West …
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Exercise helps beat breast cancer

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These oestrogen-blocking pills, sold as Femara, Aromasin and other brands, are recommended for five years after initial breast cancer treatment for hormone-driven tumours, the most common type. … In a commentary in the journal, Dr. David A. Cameron …
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Cocaine Addiction: Patient Behavior Predicts Treatment Success

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Similarly, positron-emission tomography (PET) imaging results revealed that the ventral striatal PET signal alone had strong accuracy in predicting individual cocaine addiction treatment response, with a cross-validated correct rate of 82%. … theory …
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