Dr Nuke

Totally disagree. Do go gentle into the night of unknown value, what's the point of raging against the inevitable? Just chill and go with the flow into the night.

Just Stop Oil activist jailed for six months for taking part in slow march Stephen Gingell, 57, thought to be first to receive prison sentence under new Public Order Act

With scarcely a voice being raised against it, we are sliding into a police state, in which an entirely peaceful protester, trying to prevent a societal catastrophe, can get six months in jail for marching slowly down the road.
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Cornish town sings Happy Birthday to statue of famous son The lantern parade birthday party has become an annual event to celebrate the pioneer of the recreational use of laughing gas

Humphry Davy celebrations in Penzance

COPD is very common among heroin users, affecting about half of those who smoke it and a fifth of IDUs. Users exhibit both early onset and accelerated progression, and often go undiagnosed and untreated. The role of adulterants like paracetamol isn't known.
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States With Legalized Medical Marijuana See Decline in Nonmedical Opioid Use

Medical cannabis legalization is associated with a decrease in the frequency of nonmedical prescription opioid use, according to a Rutgers study. The study, published in the International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction

Advertisers Say They Do Not Plan to Return to X After Musk’s Comments Elon Musk, the owner of X, criticized advertisers with expletives on Wednesday at The New York Times’s DealBook Summit.

Advertisers said they did not plan to return to X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, after Elon Musk criticized them with expletives at The New York Times’s DealBook Summit. X is at risk of losing up to $75 million this quarter as brands back away.

Psychonauts: Drugs and the Making of the Modern Mind UCL Health Humanities Centre is pleased to welcome Mike Jay to discuss his recent book.

In London next Thursday

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One of my first acid trips was on Sussex Uni campus in 1976. We wondered the Downs all night like spacemen. Got back to my flat at 6am and lay on my 2 year old daughter's bed and watched her sleep, in awe. She suddenly puked all over me. Took me a few minutes to figure out it wasn't ectoplasm.

A cocktail of toxins is poisoning our fields. Its effect on humans? Nobody can tell us | George Monb... Many of the chemicals being spread as sewage sludge are untested or can’t be assessed. That’s why I’m suing for answers, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

It's a truly jaw-dropping and shocking scandal, that few people have heard of: chemical wastes are now being deliberately mixed with sewage, then spread on our fields. The impacts on people and ecosystems? No one knows. This week's column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Ongoing ritual interactions with death.

Since ketamine was upgraded to class B in the UK in 2014, it's become the 4th most popular illicit drug, and the purity of the illicit supply has halved while adulteration with other substances has increased - including cocaine, mephedrone, and diazepam.
#HarmMaximization
#EndProhibition

He is in a standard compartment too. Maybe first class was full. But what I'm wondering is why no-one wanted to sit by him. Lennon would have been swamped by now!

I just called my family. They haven't eaten since yesterday. My six-week-old nephew is crying because there is no milk; his mother only has enough for three more days. People are desperately crying out for just bread. This is happening in 2023, in full view of the civilized world.

Vampire viruses prey on other viruses to replicate themselves − and may hold the key to new antiv... Researchers discovered a satellite virus latching onto the neck of another virus called MindFlayer. Studying the viral arms race between similar viruses could lead to new ways to fight infections.

Viruses can get viral infections, too. Some fascinating new science on how that works:
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CBD reportedly discovered in plant that's not cannabis Scientists say they've discovered CBD in a shrub that belongs to the same family as cannabis, although they've yet to publish the research.

Scientists in Brazil have discovered cannabidiol (CBD) in the fruits and flowers of the Jamaican nettletree (Trema micranthum), an evergreen shrub and member of the Cannabaceae family that is native to tropical and subtropical regions of America. www.livescience.com/health/medic...

Met Police commander Julian Bennett sacked for failing to provide a sample for drug test Met Police Assistant Commissioner Barbara Gray said Julian Bennett's actions were "deplorable" and that he "showed complete disregard and disrespect for the standards we must all uphold".

Metropolitan police commander sacked for refusing to be drug tested after he was accused of smoking cannabis
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The government guidelines say most people found in possession of N2O will get community penalties and fines, but ~500 a year will probably be jailed for large amounts, repeated offences, etc.

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A year later, Musk’s X is tilting right. And sinking. The billionaire bought Twitter to revive its business and make it less “woke.” He has achieved only one of those goals.

Ton of revealing new details in this, including that the number of people actively tweeting has dropped by more than 30%: "Elon Musk’s version of free speech was for him and his friends to be able to do hate speech without getting in trouble" www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Here we go again: some folks in the US will invent reasons for repeated mass shootings, when the answer is obvious to all.

Nitrous oxide becomes a class C drug in UK on November 8th. The maximum prison sentence will be 14 years for supply and 2 years for possession, though many legal uses of N2O will continue. About 500 people a year are expected to be jailed for possession.
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Tripping on Utopia: Margaret Mead, the Cold War, and the Troubled Birth of Psychedelic Science by Be... Historian Breen (Age of Intoxication) blends fleet-footed biography with an accessible analysis of mid-20th-century research int...

Heads up

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Marijuana as medicine: Everything you need to know Support for medical cannabis has skyrocketed in recent years, but when does it actually help? Here's what the evidence says about 20 conditions, including anxiety, cancer and insomnia

New Scientist's review concluded there is reasonable evidence of the effectiveness of cannabis for only 6 of 20 conditions: strong evidence of benefit for epilepsy, MS and TSC, and moderate evidence of benefit for nausea, migraine and opioid use disorder.
www.newscientist.com/article/2396...

Drug-spiking reports rise fivefold but proportion leading to charges fall FoI requests reveal number of reports resulting in prosecution fell from 1 in 25 in 2018 to 1 in 400 in 2022

Drug-spiking reports in England & Wales increase fivefold but the proportion leading to charges falls from 1 in 25 in 2018 to 1 in 400 in 2022. This is largely because evidence of spiking is usually lacking. This phenomenon urgently needs researching. www.theguardian.com/society/2023...

Nailing my colours to the war on the war on drugs mast.

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Peter Hitchens having a tantrum when he starts losing his argument about the immorality of drug use. So uptight. So revealing. So hilarious to watch while high.
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Caffeine can't be that habit forming or it wouldn't be in so many legal products - 9 in 10 people use it every day in tea, coffee, cola, cocoa, chocolate, energy drinks, shampoo, or illicit drug powders, etc.. On my fifth cup right now. No problems, just a bit jittery is all.
#Trimethylxanthine

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