New psychoactive substances (NPS), also known as "internet drugs," are substances developed to affect the brain in a similar way to illegal drugs. Researchers at Linköping University, Sweden, in ...

On December 29, 2022, President Biden signed into law H.R. 2617, the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2023 (CAA23). Buried in this massive piece of legislation is Section 3621, Regulation of Certain ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) on Thursday criticized the Department of Justice's (DOJ) decision to downgrade state-approved medical ...

First-in-class drugs can be highly innovative because of their novel mechanisms of action, but they also carry uncertainty in the absence of clinical experience. To understand how such drugs advance ...

It's known as a party drug of choice: cheap, readily available, and a “really good intensifier”. But ketamine wasn't designed for recreational use - it's a powerful anaesthetic, with a nasty dark side ...

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The Drug Enforcement Administration is reportedly planning to reclassify marijuana so it is no longer categorized as one of the most dangerous and addictive drugs—a decision that would fall short of ...

For more than 50 years, marijuana has been classified as a Schedule I drug, alongside drugs considered to have no accepted medical use, thanks to then-President Richard Nixon’s so-called War on Drugs.

Trump announced his plan to reschedule marijuana on Dec. 18, but the change didn’t happen for more than four months amid pushback from a group of Republicans in Congress. And some members of his party ...