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March 2019

 

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 The Education Team
   Helping your school be more proactive and protective

 
“Chemical vandalism of the brain maturation process drastically reduces the 10,000 potential connections that your 100 Billion neurons are capable of making. The less connections you make, the less of the essential ‘you’ there is. You have everything to lose  and nothing to gain by becoming a diminished version of what you could have been [when you use drugs].”
The Great Brain Robbery


Check out our excellent ‘one-stop-spot’ for alcohol impact data www.greaterrisk.com

 
Cheers to a Change
in Australia’s Culture
Find out more about Christina DeLay is co-founder of Altina Drinks by clicking the following link: Change-Maker: Christina DeLay
 
MDMA and 5-HT neurotoxicity: the empirical evidence for its adverse effects in humans – no need for translation
Second updated edition
Prevention strategies based on scientific evidence working with families, schools, and communities can ensure that children and youth, especially the most marginalized and poor, grow and stay healthy and safe into adulthood and old age. For every dollar spent on prevention, at least ten can be saved in future health, social and crime costs. For more, read: Prevention

OPEN LETTER on PILL TESTING.

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"She was an alcohol girl."

Friends of the FOMO music festival fatality say: "she never took drugs and just wanted to try it once."
 
A 19-year-old who died of a suspected drug overdose at a Sydney music festival never took drugs and 'just wanted to try it', according to her friends.

For more Pill Testing Would NOT have Stopped This!

See Also Scoring Pill Test
https://www.nobrainer.org.au/images/nb-resources/various/ScoringPillTesting-document.pdf        
                                                                                             
Pill Testing & National Drug Strategy https://dalgarnoinstitute.org.au/images/resources/pdf/Pill_TestingNDS02018Final.pdf
 

Drinking alcohol every day for a month:
The six damaging effects it can have on your body.

Liver Disease – Heart Issues – Weight Gain – Sexual Health – Kidneys – Pancreas    
                                                                           
 
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Some Dot Points on:

Consumption patterns and drug market perceptions


Current drug use
  • Ecstasy remained the main drug of choice (36%), although endorsement of cannabis increased (28% vs. 21% in 2016)
  • The substances most commonly used in the preceding six months were ecstasy (99%), alcohol (97%), cannabis (89%), and tobacco (87%).
  • Recent use of tobacco, MDMA crystal/rock, ecstasy capsules, ecstasy powder, ketamine, magic mushrooms, nitrous oxide, licit benzodiazepines, illicit pharmaceutical stimulants, licit ‘other’ opiates and unknown capsules increased significantly from 2016 to 2017, whilst past six month use of crystal methamphetamine and ecstasy pills significantly decreased.
  • Two-fifths (42%) of the sample reported weekly or more frequent use of any psychostimulant in the past month. One-third reported fortnightly use (36% vs. 37% in 2016), and one-fifth reported monthly use (18% vs. 19% in 2016).
  • One-third (33%) reported that they had binged on a stimulant drug (i.e. used continuously for 48 hours or more without sleep) on a median of two occasions in the past six months.
WATCH: Marijuana Withdrawal Symptoms & Side Effects From Daily Use

 
Cannabis Conundrum
 
Cannabis Conundrum
 
Smoking cannabis in your teens is linked to depression in later life: Major study reveals drug 'damages children's brains'…
Largest study of its kind found that 7% of adult depression could be prevented
  • Drug has also been linked to suicidal thoughts and attempts 
  • Researchers say tackling the use of millions of under 18s should be a priority  
Smoking cannabis in your teenage years raises the risk of depression and suicide in later life, a landmark new study has found.
Read Here for more
 
Weed Use & Barbaric Violence – Murder leads to calls to get tough on cannabis

THE abduction, rape and murder of Alesha MacPhail has prompted calls for ministers at Westminster and Holyrood to change their soft-touch stance on cannabis.
“There is copious evidence, going back decades, of the immense harm cannabis can do to an adolescent mind, and it is, in my view, the only possible explanation for this young man's depravity and savagery.”…Mr Grainger said: “This may have given him a grudge. But many people have grudges and are full of bitterness. To act on this in the way he did, inflicting 117 injuries on the girl, requires a warped mind, and in my view only cannabis could have damaged it so. 
“Cases involving more than 100 stab wounds are far from uncommon. In one of the cases I've compiled, a man stabbed another man 143 times because he thought he was the devil.”…Drugs expert Professor Neil McKeganey, director of the Centre for Substance Use Research in Glasgow, said Alesha's murder was "shocking in every respect except one - the killer had a history of extensive cannabis use…Cannabis served to distance these individuals from the horror of their actions and almost certainly contributes to their murderous mindset."

https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1091611/alesha-macphail-murder-cannabis-mps-westminster (Feb 2019)
Cannabinoid Hyperemesis – a Nasty and Growing Affliction
DR MAX: After seeing too many young lives blighted, why I'm sickened that we're still so soft on cannabis
 
What I’d like to see right now is a major public education campaign that tells youngsters the truth about cannabis and spares them none of its horror. We owe it to the generations to come. 
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THE MARIJUANA EMPEROR WEARS NO CLOTHES  By Cannabis Activist
Part 5: Journey of a Budtender. Read Part 1,  Part 2Part 3 and Part 4
How the industry duped me and others: I am not popular.  What I have to say threatens the appealing, mesmerizing façade of the “medical” marijuana industry. However, I was a cannabis purist for decades. I believed that marijuana as medicine had great potential and would
therefore be grown with great care.  But the relentless drive of the marijuana industrialists is to maximize profits.  Since day one “medical” marijuana was not a “medicine” but a commodity geared towards recreational drug use.
Our short-sightedness is dangerous
Parents claim they’d prefer their teens to use marijuana over alcohol or other drugs, which shows their ignorance.  When I was 16 years old, the marijuana flower I was consuming contained about 5% THC. I shudder to think of the harm to my brain if I had initiated on high potency flower of 15-25% THC, or the concentrates (dabs) that go over 90% THC. 
PopPot educates about today’s marijuana causing increased rates of psychosis and suicide for our youth. I can tell you that after dabbing high potency THC concentrates for 9 months, it indeed causes psychotic and suicidal thoughtsDuped By Big Marijuana! complete story .For

 
Marijuana Withdrawal Symptoms & Side Effects From Daily Use
Smoking cannabis just once can change a teenagers brain, study reveals
 
A study, conducted by
Teenagers who use cannabis just once or twice may end up with changes to the structure of their brain, scientists have warned.
The Independent - January 2019researchers
atSwinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia, found that there were clear differences on brain scans between teens who said they had smoked cannabis a couple of times and those who had never tried it. For  complete article Cannabis Damages Teen Brains
 
Exposure to cannabis and stress in adolescence can lead to anxiety disorders in adulthood
The work carried out by the Neuropharmacology Laboratory highlight the influence of environmental factors such as stress on the harmful effects of the exposure to cannabis during early ages
A new study conducted on laboratory animals shows that exposure to cannabis and stress during adolescence may lead to long-term anxiety disorders characterized by the presence of pathological fear. Numerous preclinical and epidemiological data suggest that exposure to cannabinoids in adolescents may increase the risk of the onset of psychiatric illnesses in adulthood.
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here for more...
 
WEED: Until It Affects You - Dr Karen Randall Colorado Emergency Medicine Expert and Practitioner!
 
University students' grades plunge when cannabis is legalised, studies find
  • Studies have found that legalising cannabis leads to students failing exams 
  • Legalisation was said to lead to an increase in the assignment of D and F grades
  • Researchers found ‘a much stronger effect on grades of men than women’
Legalising cannabis leads to more university students flunking their exams. Striking evidence that legalising the drug negatively affects undergraduates’ behaviour and makes weaker students particularly likely to fall behind is provided by three new studies.
‘College students in medical marijuana law states spend approximately 20 per cent less time on education-related activities and 20 per cent more time on leisure activities than their counterparts in non-medical marijuana law states,’ the research team reported.

Read here for more

 
Pseudo-Decriminalisation of this heinous drug ‘Cannabis’ – The Price We All Pay!
 
California’s black market for pot is stifling legal sales. Now the governor wants to step up enforcement
(And they said… ‘Legalizing with stop the black market, lower crime and raise revenue? Only ‘crime’ reduced was ‘possession of pot’ laws. Black Market thriving. Any profit from Weed sales quick swallowed up by FEB 18, 2019   

A
new report from the state Cannabis Advisory Committee on the first year of legal pot sales in California says there is problem that requires urgent action: “Fragmented and uncoordinated” enforcement has allowed the black market to flourish, threatening licensed business with unfair competition…
“Lack of enforcement is creating a thriving environment for the unregulated ‘underground market,’…As much as 80% of the marijuana sold in California comes from the black market, according to an estimate by New Frontier Data, a firm that tracks cannabis sales and trends. Analysts also found that California’s illicit pot market was valued at an estimated $3.7 billion last year, more than four times the size of the legal market.
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