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  • a  affecting the mind or mood or other mental processes
    psychoactive drugs

  • You would naturally assume that an addictive drug like caffeinethe most widely consumed psychoactive drug on the planetmust surely be bad for you, and initial studies .
  • Such wonder drugs may be years away, Siegel concedes, but he notes that molecular chemists have developed hundreds of new psychoactive compounds that are still waiting to be tested.
  • By 1993, researchers had found the body's two known receptors for cannabinoids, the psychoactive chemicals in the plant (THC is the main one, but there are at least 65 others).
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  • Restrictive drug laws censor science, researchers say
    By Kate Kelland LONDON (Reuters) - The outlawing of drugs such as cannabis, magic mushrooms and other psychoactive substances amounts to scientific censorship and is hampering research into potentially important medicinal uses, leading scientists argued on Wednesday. Laws and international conventions dating back to the 1960s have set back research in key areas such as consciousness by decades ...
    June 12, 2013 - Reuters via Yahoo! News
  • Outlawing drugs like marijuana censors science, researchers say
    The outlawing of drugs such as cannabis, magic mushrooms and other psychoactive substances amounts to scientific censorship and is hampering research into potentially important medicinal uses, leading scientists argued on Wednesday.
    June 12, 2013 - Fox News

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