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Max Read — “An ingenious set of experiments,” The New Scientist reports, “could open the way to cannabis-like drugs that provide pain relief without causing unwanted highs.” First of all: Unwanted? Second of all: What is wrong with you, scientists??

The new study, undertaken by Li Zhang of the US National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, posits that THC (the active component in cannabis) is able to dull pain by binding to receptors for the neurotransmitter glycine—meaning that its painkiller function is separable from its “get totally baked” function, which acts on cannabinoid type-1 receptors.

So if you love the painkilling and sense-dulling effects of marijuana, but hate “unpleasant side effects such as hallucinations” and eating mozzarella sticks, you may soon have “non-psychoactive forms of cannabis” to consume. Good for you! But for the rest of us, this is terrible news.

See, medical marijuana, as everyone in California knows, is the acceptable way to make weed legal (for white people—it’s still illegal if you’re black!). Talk up marijuana’s painkilling, appetite-inducing, nausea-killing effects, and you can convince a liberal legislature to semi-legalize it, even though it still induces (ha) “unwanted highs.” So long as pot has both a legitimate medical function and gets you stoned, you just need a doctor’s note and one of those cards to get as baked as you want.

But! Develop medical marijuana without all the good stuff in marijuana, and all of a sudden those with a legitimate medical need can take that instead—and those without a legitimate medical need (but with a legitimate need to watch Holy Mountain) are left without. So, scientists, please: Keep this quiet, okay? Some of us kind of like those “unpleasant side effects.”

By ALICE SPERI

Updated, 12:55 p.m. | More people were arrested last year in New York City on charges of marijuana possession than during the entire 19-year period from 1978 to 1996, according to an analysis released this morning by the Drug Policy Alliance.

Last year, the sixth year in a row that marijuana possession arrests increased, 50,383 people were arrested, according to a report recently released by the New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services and obtained by the policy alliance, which advocates for reform of drug laws.

The figure adds up to 140 arrests a day, making marijuana possession the leading reason for arrest in the city, and represents an 8 percent increase over 2009 and a 69 percent increase since 2005, the alliance reported in a statement issued Thursday.

From 1978 to 1996, there were 49,326 marijuana possession arrests, according to an analysis for the alliance done by Harry Levine, a sociology professor at Queens College and an expert on marijuana enforcement.

The increased enforcement, the policy alliance says, is due not to increasing consumption, but to harsher enforcement.

“Over the last 20 years, N.Y.P.D. has quietly made arrests for marijuana their top enforcement priority, without public acknowledgment or debate,” the group said.
There have been about 350,000 arrests for marijuana possession since Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg took office in 2002, the policy alliance said.

Seventy percent of those arrested are younger than 30, and 86 percent are black or Latino, even though, according to the Drug Policy Group, “young whites use marijuana at higher rates.”

Possession of less than 25 grams of marijuana has been a violation, not a jailable crime, in New York since 1977. But having the drug “open to public view” is a crime, and advocates say that many people who simply have marijuana in their pockets are charged with having it in the open after officers order them to empty their pockets.

lil Bieber haha

One of the favorite tools of law enforcement officers looking to bust cannabis consumers is the K-9 unit (or as George Clinton once called ‘em, the “dope dog”). These dogs are highly trained to use their super sense of smell to detect narcotics and explosives. Paired with a handler, they are often called in to search suspect vehicles in traffic stops and signal, or “alert” when contraband is detected.

Researchers at UC Davis decided to put the K-9s to the test and it didn’t turn out well for the cop’s best friend. These detection dogs, whose alerts are used to justify search warrants and convict cannabis consumers, gave false alerts more than 200 times.

Where’s the ball? Where’s the drugs? Where’s the food? I’ll do anything to make you happy, master!

(SF Gate) The accuracy of drug- and explosives-sniffing dogs is affected by human handlers’ beliefs, possibly in response to subtle, unintentional cues, UC Davis researchers have found.

The study, published in the January issue of the journal Animal Cognition, found that detection-dog teams erroneously “alerted,” or identified a scent, when there was no scent present more than 200 times — particularly when the handler believed that there was scent present.

“It isn’t just about how sensitive a dog’s nose is or how well-trained a dog is,” says Lisa Lit, a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Neurology and the study’s lead author. “There are cognitive factors affecting the interaction between a dog and a handler that can impact the dog’s performance.”

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/pets/detail?entry_id=82270#ixzz1D2nQC9Ir

The researchers took 18 drug dog teams to a church, where it is likely no drugs or explosives had ever been placed in the past. The cops were told there might be up to three target scents in any one of four rooms. If they saw a piece of red construction paper in the room, that indicated where a target scent was placed.

The first room was left untouched. The second room had a piece of red construction paper on a cabinet. The third room had two sausages and two tennis balls placed as decoys. The fourth room had the decoy scents and the red paper. However, none of the rooms had any drugs or explosives.

There shouldn’t have been any alerts, but, in fact, handlers indicated their dog had alerted in every room. There were more alerts in rooms with red paper (which piques the cop’s interest) and no corresponding increase in rooms with sausages and tennis balls (which would pique a dog’s interest).

In other words, at best, dogs are responding to the subtle non-verbal cues of their masters to find drugs or explosives where the human thinks there should be drugs or explosives. The cop suspects you have pot so his body language makes the dog alert. At worst, the cop is purposefully cuing his dog to alert when he wants a handy excuse to violate your 4th Amendment rights.

Three years ago in Aspen a member of the NORML Legal Committee, Dan Monnat, gave an expert presentation of the faulty use of drug dogs to convict cannabis consumers. Listen to the presentation below to get a good idea how law enforcement misuses the K-9’s testimony in court.

Dan Monnat – Aspen Legal Seminar 2008 – Drug Dogs

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