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Lehigh County 'take-back day' next week to collect old drugs at 17 locations

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Should MDMA be Legalized for Medicinal Purposes?

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Shalom Life speaks to Mimi Peleg, a clinical research assistant at the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies, on the effects MDMA has in battling Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
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158 medical marijuana applicants attend state DPH briefing : The Martha's Vineyard Times

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RMD applicants questioned Department of Public Health about the financial requirements and scoring system, to be used in the second phase of the two-part selection process.
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Dangerous synthetic LSD moves into the Midwest

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The chemical compound provides the same hallucinatory effects of LSD and is sometimes called fake acid, legal acid, N-Bomb or Smiles.
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Medical Marijuana Patient Could Lose Eye In Prison, Wife Alleges

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The Michigan medical marijuana patient whose imprisonment could ultimately cost federal taxpayers more than $1.2 million is being denied adequate health care while he serves his sentence, his wife claims.
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NEURONS TO NIRVANA - The Beckley Foundation

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Tomorrow night marks the premiere of ‘Neurons to Nirvana’, a documentary which embodies the Beckley Foundation’s Scientific Programme and features our Director, Amanda Feilding.

The film, by Oliver Hockenhull and Mikki Willis, outlines the remarkable medical benefits of psychedelics, the enormous obstacles researchers must overcome when trying to expose those benefits and the enormous impacts these substances can have on the lives of people suffering from a huge range of illnesses.

 

Visit http://www.mangu.tv/neurons-to-nirvana-understanding-psychedelic-medicines for more information about the film and premiere and to buy tickets if you’re lucky enough to be in New York this weekend.

 

The Beckley Foundation has contributed hugely to the evidence in support of psychoactive substances as medicines. The results are truly incredible, see for yourselves: http://www.beckleyfoundation.org/category/research/latest-scientific-publications/

Stepanov Sergey Mikhailovich's curator insight, October 19, 2013 8:28 AM

 

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Synapse transmission between neurons in different systems of dimension - how can it improve the music education for beginners ?

Physiological Base
The physiological substantiation on the application of the digital system for coding and decoding of a melody is the following : children begin their contact with digits already in preschool age , when they are taught to count and this system is learned by children quite firmly , since it is often used in their daily life. But the generally accepted music grammar is new for them and, naturally, requires some additional period of time to be acquired by children.It is for that reason that in the initial period of musical teaching, children inevitably spend a lot of time and efforts to read a melody written down in music signs.Naturally, it slows down rate of training, causes psychoemotional discomfort , lowers the child’s interest to music. Therefore , in the initial stage of teaching , besides work with the generally accepted music grammar , will be useful to replace it with a digital system for a certain period. This does not mean that we want to do without standard music grammar, but at the initial stages of musical education, the system of digital coding and decoding of music sounds is undoubtedly useful , as it speeds up teaching of children.

Neurophysiological Aspect
It is well known that the difficulties in the perception of any information, including musical one, cause strain of the main functional systems in the child’s organism. The developed digital technology of musical training is perspective, has a practical result, but it requires the physiologic and psychology researches devoted to studying of an influence of a recommended method to psychoemotional status and to a condition of the main functional systems of the child’s organism : the central nervous system, the muscular system and others. For this purpose , the experimental researches are to be performed, namely: ENG, EMG, EEG – tests to study the degree of mental load that the child has received in perception of the information recorded in the note signs compared to the load that a child has received in perception of the music information written down in number signs.Test Electronystagmography allows us to investigate eyeshot, positional nystagmus and also to determine the quantity of fluctuations of the eyeballs during the perception of melody written in the music marks and digital symbols. Electromyography test, allows us to investigate the threshold of muscular irritability ( min – max ) and amplitude of muscle tension , depending on effort and accuracy of pressing of a key on the keyboard of the instrument. The method of ENG and EMG joins the visual analyzer with neuro motor function of the hands and explains, on the scientific point of view, the ratio between the load on muscles of eyes and muscles of hands, and also it proves the possibility of development of muscular fatigue in hands depending on the quantity of eyeballs’ fluctuations. EEG - test allows us to make up the comparative diagrams of dynamics of the proceeding neurophysiological processes, and also it offers an opportunity to investigate the functional activity of neurons during the synthesis both of music and digital patterns.The realization of the described scientific researches in this direction will allow us to approach closer to understanding of more subtle mechanisms of the child’s mental activity and to detect the new creative abilities.

Parallel Description
In practice, using the generally accepted music grammar, the child connects the definition of the location of the melody to the pitch i.e., to the system of dimension , which is written down in the form of an expanded construction , both on x – the horizontal and on y - the vertical. By reading the music information ,the direction of eyeballs’ movements is spasmodic, and it has a multistep combination both on y – the vertical , from the G - key up to the F - key , and on x - the horizontal often with a return of eyesight to the starting point of support. For an integration , synthesis and the modification of the complex pattern of the received information the structures of the central nervous system require an additional period of time. It is a neurophysiological process proceeding in an interval of time between the moment of perception of the music information from the sheet and the moment of the hands’ response on the keyboard of an instrument. A great number of irregular nervous impulses are transferred to the central nervous system per unit of time and , as the consequence of this , the fatigue of hand muscles is considerably increased (Berosov, Korovkin1990). An amplitude of muscle tension is directly dependent on the frequency of innervation, where each subsequent nervous impulse coincides with the phase of increased excitability of the muscle ( Green, Stout,Taylor 1990 ). At the level of the synaptic terminal we can see untimely synthesis of the neurotransmitter, deep and stable depolarization of the postsynaptic membrane and,as a result,the convulsive reflexes are thus formed.An important neurophysiological moment has been marked : within a short time interval the contracture , that is , constantly high muscular tension is formed, which in turn , is harmfully reflected on the content and character of the melody.
In practice , using the method of the digital key, the child connects the definition of digital melody to the system of dimension which is written down in the form of an integral construction both on x – the horizontal and on y – the vertical . Reading the digital information the trajectory of eyeballs’ movements on y– the vertical is projected to the exact determinant ( digit ,sign, symbol ), the trajectory of eyeballs’ movements on x – the horizontal is projected in one direction, forward. In the given system of dimension the integration of the digital information proceeds instantly, its realization on an instrument proceeds in reflexive time - ratio. The paradoxical phenomenon is revealed : the time interval between the moment of perception of the digital information and the moment of the hands’ response on the keyboard of an instrument, is contracted to the minimum .We achieve a reduction of load on hand muscles at the expense of decreasing of an amplitude between muscle tension and the resulting movement and, consequently , the time intervals between effort and accuracy of pressing of a key are considerably shortened .At the level of the synaptic terminal we can see an allocation of neurotransmitter directly proportionally to the frequency of generated impulses by neurons and , as a result , the coordinated reflexes are thus formed. An important neurophysiological moment has been marked : the reciprocal muscular innervation is formed , that is, the rational distribution of the manual technique on the keyboard of an instrument, which in turn, is considerably reflected on the content and character of the melody. Grain of truth lies in the fact that at the expense of perception of melody by means of digits its realization becomes faster and easier, which in turn , is positively reflected on the psychoemotional status of the child and enables him to dynamically realize the potential music abilities in psychosomatic action as a result .

Entire description on related research You can read at the webpages :
http://educationinjapan.wordpress.com/2011/02/04/considering-the-benefits-of-digital-music-grammar-in-a-music-educational-program/
http://www.m-piremagazine.com/Sergey.html review by Joe Gentile
http://reflectionmusic.ucoz.com/

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'I will break law to tackle my MS'

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A MULTIPLE sclerosis sufferer has vowed to buy cannabis from street dealers after police took action against her for growing it at home.
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Goodbye to the real trip advisor: the internet's top LSD review team just retired

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A group calling themselves The Avengers were a bit like the Yelp of buying acid online.
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Chicago Medical Marijuana Clinic Inundated With Calls

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Since Good Intentions opened in Chicago in August, the medical marijuana clinic received 20,000 calls inquiring about Illinois' new legislation regarding the drug.
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Strip club owner says fake DEA agent walked around like he...

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Channel 9 has uncovered more details in a case where a convicted felon has been charged after authorities said he has been posing as a federal DEA agent in central Florida for nearly 10 years.
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CIA involvement in DEA officer murder?

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CIA involvement in DEA officer murder?

In February 1985, DEA law enforcement officer Enrique ‘Kiki’ Camarena was kidnapped, tortured and brutally beaten to death.

At the time it was reported that Rafael Caro Quintero, Guadalajara Cartel leader, had organised and carried out the killing of Camarena after the DEA officer discovered Quintero’s huge Marijuana farms and processing plant. 

Camarena’s body was dumped and Quintero escaped on a plane leaving from Guadalajara airport. Two months later he was recaptured and convicted to 40 years in jail, but this October he was released on a ‘legal technicality’ and has not been seen since. 

In the past few days Fox News have obtained an internal government report uncovering new details about the case and three former US federal agents have simultaneously ended their 28-year silence in interviews with Fox and Proceso, a Mexican magazine. 

The former agents have claimed that the US government ordered the murder of Camarena and that Felix Ismael Rodriguez, a CIA asset, carried out the crime. This, they assert was because Camarena had uncovered some state secrets. 

According to Plumlee, one of the agents interviewed, "The United States government played both ends against the middle. We were running guns. We were running drugs. We were using the drug money to finance the gun running operation”. 

They claim that Washington was associated with drug cartels and the DEA was facilitating the movement of drugs between South America, Central America, Mexico and the US. The profits that they made were used to run guns to the counter-revolutionaries in Nicaragua.

After the murder the former agents allege that an American CIA-contracted pilot flew Quintero to safety, however brief.

On Thursday night, a CIA Spokesman told Fox News that “it’s ridiculous to suggest that the CIA had anything to do with the murder of a US federal agent or the escape of his killer”.

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Comment: Is Norman Baker the man who will finally make sense of UK drugs policy?

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The Lib Dem's new man in the Home Office has a liberal track record on drugs - but will he have the bravery to stand up for his principles in government?
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California Gov. Jerry Brown Carries the Torch for the War on Drugs

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By rejecting the national ‘smart on crime’ trend with his veto of SB 649, California Gov. Jerry Brown chose to continue the 40 year old failed war on drugs.
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This Is Your Brain On Drugs

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When you hear the term "psychedelic art," visions of tie-dye, lava lamps and engorged magic mushrooms likely come to mind.
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Medical marijuana grow-op fees are getting higher in Surrey

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SURREY — Medicinal marijuana users who grow their own herb may have to pay a steep inspection fee and high repair costs once federal legislation takes effect next year to limit medical grow-ops to . .
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Psychologists report new insights on human brain, consciousness

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UCLA psychologists have used brain-imaging techniques to study what happens to the human brain when it slips into unconsciousness. Their research, published Oct.
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Medbox partners with Canadian medical marijuana R&D lab | BiometricUpdate.com

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Medbox has announced the signing of a term sheet with a medical marijuana research and development laboratory licensed and permitted by Health Canada.
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Medical marijuana sold in Oregon dispensaries must be tested for pesticides, mold, says new law

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The requirement represents the latest frontier in states’ evolving approach to regulating marijuana. Twenty states, and Washington, D.C., allow marijuana for medicinal use, but Oregon is among only a handful that require cannabis testing.
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Preview: International Drug Policy Reform Conference in Denver next week

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Human rights and drug control: an irreconcilable contradiction? - Drug Law Reform in Latin America

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Mom treating son's cancer with medical marijuana agrees to chemo

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Sierra Riddle, who lives in Colorado, said she would never go back to chemotherapy after treating her son Landan's cancer with medical marijuana.
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Brazil's Second Bioeconomics Forum: Homo Evolutis - Are You Ready For Genetically Modified Us?

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Marijuana has been mentioned in 1,730 pieces of state legislation this year

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Eleven states are considering legalizing it for recreational use. (Legalisation is here....coming to a town near you!!! http://t.co/5YpnHYCisR)

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Lawmakers in Jamaica debate decriminalization of marijuana

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