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People who use cannabis are about one and a half times as likely to become victims of violence, and the association is stronger among women than men. That finding sits inside a review of 63...
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Adults with hard to treat epilepsy who used cannabis almost every day had more than twice as many convulsive seizures a year as those who did not use it, and they reached the point of...
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Marijuana industry funding is not the small, local story its supporters like to tell. A new tracker called Who Funds Marijuana Legalization? logs 62 entries showing that tobacco, alcohol and drug companies have put billions...
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A new national study of MDMA deaths has put hard numbers on an awkward point for drug checking. Much of the risk sits outside the pill, in the body that takes it and in everything...
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ACT paramedics attended nearly 4000 callouts linked to alcohol and drugs in a single year, the latest ambulance surveillance data shows. Australia’s Annual Overdose Report 2026, published by the Penington Institute, also counted 28 unintentional...
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Anthropological and sociological inquiry into religion has long asked whether faith functions as a mechanism of social control capable of shaping deviant behaviour, including substance use and crime. Contemporary public health and criminological evidence, synthesised...
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Cannabis and tobacco use often go hand in hand. For young people who already show early signs of psychosis, that habit may carry more weight than anyone assumed. Two linked studies from the same North...
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A new systematic review and meta-analysis in Psychological Medicine puts hard numbers on the cannabis violence risk. The authors pooled 63 peer reviewed studies covering 265,079 people. Cannabis users had significantly higher odds of committing...
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Hemp is moving from the field to the feed trough. The science that should guide the move is lagging behind. Before 2014, US hemp acreage stood at zero. By 2020 it had climbed to a...
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The Australian methamphetamine problem has reached levels that no national monitoring system has recorded before. The National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre (NDARC) at UNSW Sydney released its September 2026 bulletin (Chrzanowska et al., 2026)....
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The Australian methamphetamine problem has reached levels that no national monitoring system has recorded before. The National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre (NDARC) at UNSW Sydney released its September 2026 bulletin (Chrzanowska et al., 2026)....
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The Australian methamphetamine problem has reached levels that no national monitoring system has recorded before. The National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre (NDARC) at UNSW Sydney released its September 2026 bulletin (Chrzanowska et al., 2026)....
