By Jennifer Huget
Under pressure from parents and schools looking to control attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), doctors commonly prescribe methylphenidate (MPH), best known by the brand name Ritalin, as a treatment for children as young as 2 — even though the drug has been
tested and approved only for children ages 6 and up.
A report published early [...]

The 1990s saw a dramatic rise in the number of children and adolescents receiving Ritalin-type stimulant drugs and Prozac-type antidepressants among a population of children studied by researchers at the University of Michigan. The study also documents the rise of a newer phenomenon: kids who are prescribed both kinds of drugs at the
same time.
The trend [...]

Britain now has 13 million tobacco smokers. This number has been steadily decreasing due to public awareness of the harm caused by tobacco smoking. [...]

An article in the November 16, 2002 Globe and Mail out of Canada addressed deepening concerns, particulary in Britain, about the respiratory and psychiatric effects of cannabis. The article addressed both Canada’s and Britain’s leaning toward legalizing the use and possession of cannabis and what that might mean. One reason given for legalizing pot was [...]

By Sally Squires
With names such as ecstasy, clarity, roofies, bidis, yellow sunshine and pina colada, they sound intoxicating and exotic. And they are. To many people, drugs seem to offer possibilities of making life better, more interesting, more exciting, more varied, less painful. Sometimes they do, for a while anyway. No one would take them [...]

Easily grown and perfectly legal, Salvia divinorum presents challenges and promises in ethnobotany, chemistry, psychotherapy, neurology, and shamanism. This year’s event should be even better, and there have been some significant developments regarding Salvia divinorum since last December. The emerging theme involves how we can incorporate this plant spirit into our lives as a tool [...]

Salvia divinorum is a legal and increasingly popular Mexican plant that some in Congress want banned
By Reid J. Epstein
Madison - The clerks at Knuckleheads Tobacco & Gifts, a State St. smoking accessories shop, aren’t allowed to say words such as marijuana, weed or pot.
Although some customers undoubtedly smoke marijuana and are drawn to the store’s [...]

MALIBU, California (AP) — A Mexican plant that contains the most powerful natural hallucinogen known is being sold legally over the Internet and is drawing the interest of medical researchers and law enforcement. Anecdotal accounts of use of the herb, called Salvia divinorum, describe hallucinogenic trips that make the user feel like an inanimate object [...]

Salvia divinorum and the unique diterpene hallucinogen, Salvinorin (divinorin)
A.Valdes LJ 3rd SMP Research, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48107-7705.
Salvia divinorum is a vision-inducing mint used by the Mazatec people of Oaxaca, Mexico. It is grown in California and other parts of the United States where it is employed as a legal hallucinogen. Traditional opinion has been that [...]

Salvia divinorum: an hallucinogenic mint which might become a new recreational drug in Switzerland.
Giroud C, Felber F, Augsburger M, Horisberger B, Rivier L, Mangin P
Laboratoire de Toxicologie Analytique, Institut Universitaire de Medecine
Legale, rue du Bugnon 21, 1005, Lausanne, Switzerland.
Salvia divinorum Epling & Jativa is an hallucinogenic mint traditionally used for curing and divination by the [...]