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Ketamine

Justice Department announced that it would not prosecute people who use marijuana for medical purposes in states where it is legal. Local and state officials say they will now have to take on the job themselves.

Newer workplace drug tests using hair samples reveal 10 times as many job applicants and employees taking cocaine and methamphetamine than had been found in urine tests.

For the first time, data shows that in the first half of 2009 cocaine was found in three of every 1,000 urine tests performed on job applicants and employees, whereas hair testing found cocaine in 32 of 1,000. For every 1,000 tests, methamphetamine showed up once in urine and nine times in hair.

Hair tests reveal far more drug users because they show a pattern going back three months, whereas urine tests are better at finding recent one-time use, but only drugs taken within the previous one to three days. Urine tests are best at finding out if drugs were involved in a workplace accident or if a worker behaves suspiciously, but they also allow applicants to abstain from use in preparation for screening.

Abuse of ketamine, a powerful anesthetic, is on the rise in many countries and now new research shows that repeated use of the club drug impairs memory, concentration, and psychological well-being.

Legal Marijuana

Cass County, Michigan Drug Enforcement Team found the remains of 188 one-pot meth labs.

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Researchers at the University of Birmingham analyzed the results of 10 studies that measured the effect of quitting smoking after diagnosis of lung cancer.

The findings are that people who continued to smoke after a diagnosis of early stage lung cancer had a substantially higher risk of death and a greater risk of the tumor returning compared with those who stopped smoking at that time.

Further analysis found a five year survival rate of 63-70% among quitters compared with 29-33% among those who continued to smoke.

A unanimous California Supreme Court struck down a law that limited the amount of marijuana a medical patient could legally possess.

The California Supreme Court ruled that state lawmakers were wrong to change provisions of the voter-approved Proposition 215, which limited to eight ounces the amount of marijuana one person could have.

California Strikes Down Marijuana Law

U.S. Drug Policy Rejected in Latin America

Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Ecuador and Mexico are among the nations that have eased the penalties for drug possession and personal use. The cost of incarcerating users has overwhelmed government budgets and the prison system and does not appear to be a deterrent to the drug problem in Latin America.

Colombia, however is going in the opposite direction. A 1994 Constitutional amendment that decriminalized personal use of drugs has been reversed. Apparently, something learned by Colombia hasn't quite caught on in the Southern Hemisphere.

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The Colorado Senate Health and Human Services Committee votes 6-1 in favor of a bill that would require medical-marijuana patients to have a "bona-fide relationship" with a licensed physician in order to be able to use the drug for medical reasons.

Colorado tightens regulation of medical marijuana

2010

The White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP), in partnership with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), has announced the availability of new Drug Free Communities (DFC) Support Program funding.  ONDCP expects to award approximately $18.75 million for 150 new competing grants to support the efforts of community coalitions working to prevent and reduce substance use among youth. The deadline to submit DFC grantee applications is Friday, March 19, 2010. . . more

Drug Free Communities

White House Office of National Drug Control Policy, awarded $60 million in Drug-Free Communities (DFC) Continuation Grants to 565 Drug-Free Communities coalitions and five DFC Mentor Continuation coalitions. These grants will assist local community coalitions as they work to prevent and reduce youth substance use.

The DFC program provides coalition matching grants of up to $625,000 over five years to community organizations that facilitate civic participation in local drug prevention efforts. Coalitions are comprised of community leaders, parents, youth, teachers, religious and fraternal organizations, health care and business professionals, law enforcement, and the media.

New and dangerous club drug being sold to high school and college age students.

The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) working with the Michigan State Police and local law enforcement agencies have recently discovered the presence of a new and dangerous club drug that is being sold to high school and college age students at "Rave" parties throughout the Detroit and Ann Arbor areas. This substance is known on the street as "Molly", which is 1-(3-Trifluoromethylphenyl) piperazine (TFMPP).

This is an extremely dangerous drug, which is clandestinely manufactured and marketed in "Rave Clubs" as a more intense form of Ecstasy. This drug is an off-white powder generally sold in a gelatin capsule. TFMPP and Benzylpiperazine (BZP) were both given emergency controlled substance scheduling by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration in September 2002. TFMPP was given Schedule I status, meaning it has a high potential for abuse and no accepted medical use. This drug first appeared on the West Coast of the United States and these recent seizures in Michigan are the first indication of its presence in the metropolitan Detroit area. TFMPP also goes by the names "legal E", "legal X" or "A2". TFMPP can cause increased heart rate, blood pressure and body temperature . . . more

It costs about $400 to grow a pound of marijuana. In California, one pound sells for $2,500 to a middle man. It then yields $6,000 on the street.