Iceland’s Approach to Teen Substance Abuse is Something America Needs Now
Alex Pietrowski – With the opioid crisis taking so many lives, we need a new paradigm.
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How Should Our Society Deal With People Who Use Drugs?
Tony Newman, Drug Policy Alliance Waking Times The war on drugs is a cruel joke. The U.S. spends more than $50 billion a year on the “war on drugs” with the goal of creating a “drug-free society” – yet there has never been a “drug-free society” in the history of civilization. Virtually all of us …
12 Negative Aspects of Consuming Cannabis
Alex Pietrowski, Staff Writer Waking Times The progressing liberation of cannabis has been brought about by a surge in information on the positive medical and recreational benefits of this healing plant. There is a growing body of scientific evidence demonstrating how this plant can be of tremendous medicinal value in fighting and coping with many …
People With Higher IQ’s Are More Likely to Use Illegal Drugs… Why?
Sarah Bon, The Fix Waking Times Researchers have found that those with high childhood IQs are more prone to illegal drug use as adults. But what does this correlation really mean? Two major papers have found a positive correlation between high childhood IQ and adult drug use. The first was published in 2011 (Intelligence across childhood in …