Driver arrested after officer finds her "distracted" by sex toy

We've seen the anti-drink-driving adverts. Now I'm wondering what the anti-masturbation-driving adverts will look like?

Teenagers 'killed by mephedrone' never actually took the drug

The Guardian reports that toxicology tests have now shown that the two teenagers whose deaths were "caused by mephedrone", and which led to a tabloid-fuelled moral panic resulting in a knee-jerk ban from the Labour government, never took the now-banned drug.

Maybe I missed it, but I haven't seen many tabloids correcting their earlier lies misreporting...

Pentagon documents on CIA's secret drug-based mind-control programmes released

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There's some background to the projects at the Wired Danger Room article "Chemical Concussions and Secret LSD: Pentagon Details Cold War Mind-Control Tests".

Jonathan Ott's home and possessions destroyed by arson

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Read more and donate via the Centre for Cognitive Liberty & Ethics.

If you haven't heard of Jonathan Ott, here is a basic introduction.

Politicians and drugs - why can't they get it right? Another expert resigns from the ACMD.

Eric Carlin is the latest expert to resign from the UK government's Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs, clearly unhappy with the way the our politicians base important decisions on drugs on how many favourable tabloid headlines and votes they think they'll get out of it.  Read his letter of resignation here.

Another senior drugs advisor quits over UK government's treatment of advice

Resignation 'threatens drug ban'

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Mephedrone is legal and widely available

Another senior government drugs adviser has quit, hours before ministers were expected to ban a new "legal high".

The resignation of Dr Polly Taylor from the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs has sparked speculation that the ban on mephedrone could be delayed.

Lib Dem science spokesman Dr Evan Harris said Home Secretary Alan Johnson's ban would have to wait until the council was "properly constituted".

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Cary Grant: LSD evangelist

There's a good blog post over at blog.wfmu.org about Cary Grant's enthusiasm for the benefits he found by taking controlled LSD trips as part of therapy sessions.  

 

How would you like a drug that could give you perfect visual memory?

 

David Nutt on Mephedrone

Mephedrone: classifying 'legal highs'

Until we know the real harm of legal recreational drugs such as mephedrone, they should be put into a holding 'class D'

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The drug Mephedrone, also known as 4-MMC, which is legal in the UK. Photograph: Rex Features

Last month at a Lancaster nightclub, seven people were arrested for possession of a drug, even though the policeman leading the arrest team made it clear that the drug was not illegal. This was not the first time the police had exhibited such behaviour in relation to this drug, so what is leading to this apparently irrational police behaviour? The drug in question is mephedrone [not to be confused with the opioid substitute treatment methadone], a synthetic stimulant drug that is relatively new on the UK drug scene although it has been popular in Israel for a number of years.

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