The effects of illicit drugs in humans

I want some very reputable wesbites that detail many of the popular drugs and their effects on human health and cognition. I picked up some pamphlets from some police event and read some of the information, but it turns out that they're just propaganda machines with some misleading information. I would really like to have some accurate information on illicit drugs like marijuana and psilocybin and such.

My plan is to compare the effects of these to the effects of alcohol and see which drugs we really have to worry about, and I'm hypothesizing alcohol, but let's see those reputable sites...

try www.scienceforums.net ... ask fafalone, he knows rather alot about drugs from a technical standpoint, and I think YT2095 knows a bit too. I'm "Radical Edward" there by the way.

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Originally Posted by EvolvEarth

I want some very reputable wesbites that detail many of the popular drugs and their effects on human health and cognition. I picked up some pamphlets from some police event and read some of the information, but it turns out that they're just propaganda machines with some misleading information. I would really like to have some accurate information on illicit drugs like marijuana and psilocybin and such.

My plan is to compare the effects of these to the effects of alcohol and see which drugs we really have to worry about, and I'm hypothesizing alcohol, but let's see those reputable sites...

When you have a problem like this, your first stop is PubMed at http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi Put your drugs in the search line. If you want "AND" between them, then just put a "," there. So, you could search on "marijuana, alcohol" and see what you get. These are the original studies, so are much better than websites. Then read the Abstracts.

Have fun!

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Best Forum ever!

I am signing up. Oh, and your avatar gives you away ;-)

Get a copy of Courtroom Toxicology. It'll have a what the manufactures place on the warning labels of the drugs.

oh yeap, the avatar is a constant thing anyone who wants to come along can do, scientists are especially welcome

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Scienceforum is pretty good, ive been reading there for a bit but have yet to sign up.
Pubmed might be a pretty good source since you can possibly find the data before a spin has been put on it.

I have found www.howstuffworks.com can be pretty good.
I would also add tobacco to your comparison, especially since its one of the other legal drugs.

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pot makes you sleepy and hungry and think everythings deeper and cooler than it appears normally, especially music. thats it. its as harmless as a tiny little declawed sleeping baby kitten. come up to canada and try some, and do you OWN research.

I don't think there is a problem with drugs, any really. The problem is the abuse of drugs. When someone says _______ is harmful, my first thought is, "based on what dosage and the regularity in which it is used"?

I always get a kick out of cigarette propaganda. Everyone knows that being addicted to it for extended periods puts your health at risk, but the BS I've heard is almost insulting. People know hitting your head with a baseball bat is bad, but I don't see the point in lying about the bat. I remember a handout of the supposedly harmful chemicals in tobacco smoke. Funny thing was that most of them were found in plants and weren't really harmful. My favorite on the list was magnesium...

Stray, I agree. Also in the illicit drug world, another problem comes from the drugs being cut or replaced entirely with other chemicals, that are often more dangerous than the original drug.

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