Use this tag for questions about the use or properties of "recreational" drugs such as marijuana, heroin, cocaine or LSD.
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Was the Marijuana Tax Act of 1937 passed because of the commercial interests of Dupont?
In How Marijuana Became Illegal Bud Fairy writes:
During the same period, Du Pont was developing cellophane, nylon, and dacron from from fossil fuels. Du Pont held the patents on many synthetics and became a leader in the development of paint,…
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Has the War on Drugs disproportionately affected minority communities?
The premise of Eugene Jarecki's The House I Live In documentary is that the US War on Drugs, other than being a mostly failed campaign, has also disproportionately affected minority communities. A summary of the film's premise is presented on its…
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Are there people who can't get high on marijuana?
I smoked my head off and can't feel anything. And my friends can get high just by breathing all the smoke in the room :)
Someone told me that I need to try more and get used to it, and it will happen at some point. On Yahoo Answers I read that…
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Can you get high from second-hand marijuana smoke?
It has been widely claimed that the dosage levels of psychoactive drugs from second-hand marijuana smoke is insufficient to have an effect - i.e. to give a "contact high"
Opposing Views
The notion of the “contact high” is a myth. In order to get…
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Can Marijuana use result in addiction?
From the drugabuse.gov website:
Long-term marijuana use can lead to addiction; that is, people have
difficulty controlling their drug use and cannot stop even though it
interferes with many aspects of their lives. It is estimated that 9
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Does LSD provide a creativity boost?
The claim is of course widely known: LSD "broadens your thinking" and makes you "more creative".
The last incarnation was Steve Jobs' biography taking a swipe at Bill Gates:
“He’d be a broader guy if he had dropped acid once or gone off to an…
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Do most drug users not become addicted?
This 2015 Conversation article by Paul Hayes, former chief executive of the National Treatment Agency for Substance Misuse, claims that most users of illegal drugs do not become addicted:
Drug use is common, drug addiction is rare. About one adult…
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Did Nizari Ismailis assassins commit murders under the influence of hashish?
From Wikipedia:
The Assassins (from Arabic: حشّاشين Ḥashshāshīn) were an order of
Nizari Ismailis, particularly those of Persia and Syria that formed in
the late 11th century. In time, the order began to pose a strong
military threat to…
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Are SWATs in the US mostly used for serving marijuana warrants?
I've seen following claims made by pro-legalization lobby:
SWATs are used more often for drug warrants than to deal with any violent crimes
most of these warrants are for marijuana
significant number of people are killed during these SWAT…
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Does giving a drug to a former addict cause reestablishment of chemical dependence?
Joel Spitzer, an anti-smoking counsellor, claimed on whyquit.com that there is a law of addiction which is:
The law of physiological addiction states administration of a drug to an addict will cause reestablishment
of chemical dependence upon the…
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Is this claim that "vaccinations are associated with heroin use" made in good faith?
A Facebook group Feminists Against Vaccination have posted an anti-vaxx advert:
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Their first injection was a vaccination. Protect your children from vaccinations. Vaccinations leave a lasting psychological belief that injecting is…
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Does coffee cause children to grow slower?
One of the things claimed by several adults when I was little is that coffee would stop me from growing so I wasn't allowed to drink it, is there any truth to that claim?
It doesn't seem completely out of order that it could have some negative…
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Is adrenalin shot directly in the heart to revive people overdosing?
I wonder if the scene in the movie Pulp Fiction, where a girl (Marsellus Wallace's wife), in a bad health situation after taking too much heroin, is brought to life by a direct prick of adrenalin in her heart is a real "medical" practice or it's…
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Is there a detectable bias in drug-sniffing dogs based on handler belief of presence of drugs?
As discussed in the comments of Does normal paper currency contain enough narcotics residue to attract a drug-sniffing dog?, and further explored in the 2017 NPR article, "Eliminating Police Bias When Handling Drug-Sniffing Dogs" on Dr. Lisa Lit's…
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Is Mephedrone as dangerous as UK government advice claims?
Mephedrone is an amphetamine-like designer drug that was, until recently, not strictly illegal in the UK. . See Nature news story here which also covers the controversy around the original ban in the UK.
Recently the head of the government's…
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