In the Crossfire: Legalize Marijuana?

Published January 5, 2014

In the Crossfire: Legalize Marijuana?
Filed under: cocaine addiction+models
Cannabis is schedule 1, meaning it has no medical value, is unsafe for medical use, and has a high likelihood for addiction (on par with Heroin…while Cocaine and Meth are Schedule 2), yet they're rolling out the red carpet for trials and patents for … Read more on CNN (blog)

Silencing Synapses: Hope for Pharmacological Solution to Cocaine Addiction
Filed under: cocaine addiction+models
Researchers led by Pitt neuroscience professor Yan Dong used rat models to examine the effects of cocaine addiction and withdrawal on nerve cells in the nucleus accumbens, a small region in the brain that is commonly associated with reward, emotion, … Read more on ScienceBlog.com (blog)