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Cannabis: Commentaries and Analyses
Cannabis: Commentaries and Analyses
Cultural & Social Analyses
Author Title Source Year wdt_ID Author Title Source Year 1 Abraham, Manja D. Places of drug purchase in The Netherlands Presentation held at the 10th Annual Conference on Drug Use and Drug Policy, Vienna, September, 1999. Amsterdam, CEDRO Centrum voor Drugsonderzoek, Universiteit van Amsterdam. © Copyright 1999 Manja D. Abraham 1999 2 Abraham, Manja D. The impact of urban residency and lifestyle on illicit drug use in the Netherlands Journal of Drugs Issues, Summer 1999, pp. 565-586 (pre-publication version) 1999 3 Bammer, Gabriele When science meets politics: the Australian heroin trial feasibility study The National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia. Version of paper presented at the Vlth International Conference on the Reduction of Drug Related Harm in Florence, March 1995. 1995 4 Blanchard, Sean and Atha, Matthew J. Indian hemp and the dope fiends of Old England. A sociopolitical history of cannabis and the British Empire 1840-1928 Drugtext.org 1990 5 Boekhout van Solinge, Tim Dutch drug policy in a European context Journal of Drug Issues 29 (3), 511-528. Pre-publication version. © Copyright 1999 Tim Boekhout van Solinge. All rights reserved. 1999 6 Boekhout van Solinge, Tim Drug use and drug trafficking in Europe Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, 1998 1: 100-105. Pre-publication version 1998 7 Boekhout van Solinge, Tim Drugs in France: Prevalence of use and drug seizures In: Korf, D.J. & H. Riper (Eds.) (1997), Illicit drugs in Europe. Proceedings of the Seventh Annual Conference on Drug Use and Drug Policy.Amsterdam: Universiteit van Amsterdam, Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid. © Copyright 1997 Tim Boekhout van Solinge. A 1997 8 Boekhout van Solinge, Tim Ganja in Jamaica Amsterdams Drug Tijdschrift, nr 2, December 1996, pp. 11-14. English translation by Jeanette Roberts. © Copyright 1996, 2000 Tim Boekhout van Solinge. All rights reserved. 1996 9 Boekhout van Solinge, Tim Cannabis in France Presentation held at the conference \'Cannabis Policy, Criminal Law and Human Rights\', Bremen University, Germany, October 6, 1995. In: Böllinger, Lorenz (Ed.) (1997), Cannabis Science. From Prohibition to Human Right. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang GmbH. 1995 10 Böllinger, Lorenz Symbolic Criminal Law without Limits Commentary on the Cannabis decision of the German Federal Constitutional Court.Professor of Criminal Law and Criminology, University of Bremen/Germany, Faculty of Law. 1994 -
Medical Analyses
Articles on Cannabis and Perspectives
Author Title Source Year wdt_ID Author Title Source Year 2 Dreher, Melanie C., PhD; Kevin Nugent, PhD; and Rebekah Hudgins, MA Prenatal Marijuana Exposure and Neonatal Outcomes in Jamaica: An Ethnographic Study Pediatrics, February 1994, Volume 93, Number 2, pp. 254-260. American Academy of Pediatrics 1994 3 Doblin & Kleiman Marijuana as Antiemetic Medicine: A Survey of Oncologists’ Experiences and Attitudes Journal of Clinical Oncology, vol 9, no 7 (July), 1991: pp 1314-1319. 1991 4 Grinspoon, Lester (ed.) Marijuana The Harvard Medical School Mental Health Letter. Volume 4, Number 5, November 1987. 1987 5 Husain, S and Kahn, I An update on cannabis research World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland. 1985/01/01 1985 6 Johnson & Gerstein Initiation of Use of Alcohol, Cigarettes, Marijuana, Cocaine, and Other Substances in US Birth Cohorts since 1919 American Journal of Public Health, Jan 1998, vol 88 No 1. 1998 7 Joy, Janet E., Stanley J. Watson, Jr., and John A. Benson, Jr., Editors Marijuana and Medicine: Assessing the Science Base Division of Neuroscience and Behavioral Health – Institute of Medicine. National Academy Press, Washington, D.C. 1999 8 Nahas, G. G. Critique of a study on ganja in Jamaica United Nations Office for Drug Control and Crime Prevention 1985 9 Schaeffer, Jeffrey et. al. Cognition and Long-Term Use of Ganja (Cannabis) Reprint Series 24 July 1981, Volume 213, pp. 465-466 SCIENCE 1981 10 Schwartz, Richard et.al Marijuana to Prevent Nausea and Vomiting in Cancer Patients: A Survey of Clinical Oncologists Southern Medical Journal. February 1997, vol 90, No 2. 1997 11 Skidmore et.al Marijuana as Medicine (letters) AJN, May 1998, vol 98, No 5. 1998
Articles on Cannabis and Apoptosis and Proliferation
Articles on Cannabis and Receptors
Agonists Antagonists
Endogenous Agonists
Receptors
Reviews
Author Title Source Year wdt_ID Author Title Source Year 1 Felder & Glass Cannabinoid receptors and their endogenous agonists Ann. Rev. Pharmacol. Toxicol. 1998 38:179-200 1998 2 Glass et.al Cannabinoid receptors in the human brain: a detailed anatomical and quantitative autoradiographic study in fetal neonatal and adult human brain Neuroscience, Vol 27, No 2, pp. 299-318 1997 3 Hollister Health aspects of cannabis Pharmacol. Reviews Vol. 38, No. 1, 1986 1986 4 Hollister Cannabis Acta Psychiatr. Rev. Suppl. 345, 1988:78-108 1988 5 Howlett Pharmacology of cannabinoids receptors Annu. Rev. Pharmacol. Toxicol. 1995 35:607-634 1995 6
Articles on Cannabis and Reproduction
Author Title Source Year wdt_ID Author Title Source Year 1 Dreher et.al Prenatal marijuana exposure and neonatal outcomes in Jamaica: an ethnographic study Pediatrics, Vol. 93, No. 2, February 1994 1994 2 Schmid et.al Changes in anandamide levels in mouse uterus are associated with uterine receptivity for embrio implantation Proc. Nat’l. Acad. Science Vol. 94, pp. 4188-4192, April 1997, Physiology 1998
Articles on Cannabis and Synaptic Transmission
Author Title Source Year wdt_ID Author Title Source Year 1 Henry et.al Activation of inwardly rectifying potassium channels (GIRK1) by co-expressed rat brain cannabinoid receptors in Xenopus oocytes Neurosci. Letters 186 (1995) 91-94 1995 2 Mackie et.al Cannabinoid activate an inwardly rectifying potassium conductance and inhibit Q-type calcium currents in AtT20 cells transfected with rat brain cannabinoid receptor J. Neuroscience, October 1995, 15(10): 6552-6561 1995 3 Shen et.al Cannabinoid receptor agonists inhibit glutamatertgic synaptic transmission in rat hippocampal cultures J. Neuroscience, July 15, 1996, 16(14):4322-4334 1996 4 Twitchell et.al Cannabinoids inhibit N- and P/Q-type calcium channels in cultured rat hippocampal neurons J. Neurophysiology 022-3077/97 1997 Statistical Analyses
Author Title Source Year wdt_ID Author Title Source Year 1 National Institute of Justice 1998 Annual Report on Marijuana Use Among Arrestees (U.S.A.) ADAM - Arrestee Drug Abuse Monitoring Program. National Institute of Justice, April 1999 1999 2 U.S. DoJ Drug use and crime in the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics U.S. Department of Justice. June 21, 2000 2000 3 U.S. DoJ Drugs and Crime Facts Drug use in the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics. U.S. Department of Justice, June 21, 2000 2000 4 Faley, Jonathan Fact sheet: drug data summary White House Office of National drug Control Policy / Drug Policy Information Clearinghouse, NCJ-167246. 1998 5 U.S. Dept. of State Ganja in Jamaica - Statistics 1985 -1995 From the International Narcotics Control Strategy Report, March 1996 - U.S. Department of State. 1996 6 U.S. Dept. of State JAMAICA - International Narcotics Control Strategy Report, 1999 Released by the Bureau for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs, U.S. Department of State Washington, DC, March 2000 2000 7 Dept. of Health and Human Services US: 1999 National Household Survey on Drug Abuse Department of Health and Human Services 1999 8 United Nations Report of the International Narcotics Control Board for 1999. U.N. Publications ISBN 92-1-148123-6 ISSN 0257-3717. 1999 Newspaper and Non-academic magazine articles
Author Title Source Year wdt_ID Author Title Source Year 1 Adams, Barry Religious Use Defense Missoula, Montana: Beaplunker 1996 2 Boyd, Susan Moms, Kids and Drugs Cannabis Culture Magazine, 14: September 01, 1998 1998 3 Brady, Pete Doctor Melanie Dreher - Reefer Researcher Cannabis Culture Magazine, 15: Nov./Dec. 1998 1998 4 Brady, Pete Part two of our look at Dr. Melanie Dreher research into ganja use among Jamaican women Illustrations by Tom Arnatt. Cannabis Culture Magazine, 16: Jan/Feb 1999 1999 5 Brady, Pete Ganja medicine in Jamaica. Jamaican researchers have developed legal marijuana medicines Cannabis Culture Magazine, 23: January 16, 2000 2000 6 Campbell, Rev. Leeroy James nuff ganja no problems for visitors Cannabis Culture Magazine, 2, July 1995 1995 7 Campbell, Rev. Leeroy James Healing Herb Cannabis Culture Magazine, 5: May 01, 1996 1996 8 CSDP Fact sheet: adolescent drug use and drug control efforts Common Sense for Drug Policy 1998 9 Crier, Catherine American War on Drugs: Searching for Solutions ABC TV With Catherine Crier Aired Thursday, April 6, 1995 by ABC News (#ABC-59) 1995 10 Davis, R. William Cannabis Hemp: The Invisible Prohibition Revealed Copyright © 1991, 1997 R. William Davis All Rights Reserved 1997