Marijuana, and cocaine

Other Substances. Driving under the influence of alcohol cases are compHcated because people sometimes consume alcohol with other substances (11—13). The most common iUicit substances taken with alcohol are marijuana and cocaine (see Table 1) (14). In combination with alcohol, some dmgs have an additive effect. When a blood or urine alcohol sample is tested for alcohol and the result is well below the legal concentration threshold yet the test results are not consistent with the arresting officers observation that the subject was stuporous, further toxicological tests for the possible presence of dmgs are indicated. 

Richardson GA, Day NL, McGauhey PJ. (1993). The impact of prenatal marijuana and cocaine use on the infant and child. Clin Obstet Gynecol. 36(2) 302-18. 

Ephedra has a long history of legal use in the United States and around the world. Today, the laws that apply to ephedra cover sales, formulation, and labeling by manufacturers they do not outlaw its use by consumers as with street drugs such as marijuana and cocaine. Because ephedrine can be used to manufacture methamphetamine, companies that sell bulk ephedrine and ephedrine tablets are subject to laws... 

British banks. That is not to say that Panama is clean on the contrary, most of the funds derived from the Colombian trade in marijuana and cocaine are laundered through Panama, through the three large Colombian banks resident there. However, American banks have a measure of maneuvering room that they do not have in the Cayman Islands or the Bahamas, under the snooping eyes of the British authorities. 

ElSohly, M. A., Urinalysis and casual handling of marijuana and cocaine, /. Anal. Toxicol, 15, 46, 1991. 

That addiction to DMT and 5-MeO-DMT is unknown is due in part to the rapid development of tolerance to their interesting effects. When smoked regularly, they soon become ineffective. Another reason is the "high impact" of these experiences they cannot easily be integrated into daily life in the way that highs of alcohol, marijuana, and cocaine can be. 

Rotli MD, Wliittaker K, Salelii K, Taslikin DP, Baldwin GC (2004) Mechanisms for impaired effector function in alveolar macrophages from marijuana and cocaine smokers. J Neuroimmunol 147 82-86. 

The argument that drugs like marijuana and cocaine should be available legally to adults because the war on drugs" has been lost... 

Baldwin GC, Tashkin DP, Buckley DM, Park AN, Dubinett SM, Roth MD (1997) Marijuana and cocaine impair alveolar macrophage function and cytokine production. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 156 1606-161.3... 

Cone EJ, Lange R, Darwin WD (1998) In vivo adulteration excess fluid ingestion causes false-negative marijuana and cocaine urine test results. J Anal Toxicol 22 460-473... 

I have considered lead pollution in detail, but lead is not the only villain in the prenatal environment. Others include methyl-mercury polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) dioxins pesticides ionizing radiation and maternal use of alcohol, tobacco, marijuana, and cocaine. These villains can cause a range of behavioral effects from severe mental retardation and disability to subtle changes in mental function that depend on the timing and dose of the chemical agent. Indeed, more than zoo industrial... 

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