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Bulletin 14: Raising awareness about cannabis, its use and impact on health and wellbeing among Indigenous Australians

John Howard , Julia Butt , Tracey Wright , Melissa Norberg , Jan Copeland , Ted Wilkes National Cannabis Prevention and Information Centre,…

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2012 Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Music competition now open!

Click here to download an entry form for this year's competition. The winner will receive $5000 and a two-day workshop with Skinnyfish Music to professionally record their song. A runner-up prize…

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NCPIC conducts regular media monitoring and collects a range of media stories on cannabis-related stories that appear in the press.

Smokers come to a joint conclusion

21 MAY
2012

This article features extensive discussion about cannabis, how usage trends have changed over time and the impacts of the drug on mental health. Professor Copeland explains that 30 years ago, people tended to smoke the less potent parts of the cannabis plant, namely the leaves. These days however,…

The New Zealand adventure tourism operators face drug-testing

10 MAY
2012

A post mortem on the pilot of the balloon which crashed in New Zealand in January found traces of cannabis in his system. This, coupled with another fatal crash where two tandem skydivers were found to be affected by the drug, has led the government to consider “compulsory drug testing in the…

Study shows how adolescent cannabis use can cause schizophrenia

9 MAY
2012

Research conducted by the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland and published in journal, Nature’s Neuropsychopharmacology has “shown physical changes to exist in specific brain areas implicated in schizophrenia following the use of cannabis during adolescence.” Cannabis has been…

Huge drug problem

6 MAY
2012

Research published recently in The Lancet claims that “up to 250 million people use illicit drugs worldwide, with up to 38 million ‘problem’ users and up to 21 million people regularly injecting illegal substances.” Cannabis was the drug “most widely used” around…

WADA to consider change of status for cannabis

3 MAY
2012

Following a meeting between the World Anti Doping Authority (WADA) and “a coalition of Australian sporting bodies”, it has been suggested that cannabis be taken off the list of banned substances as many believe it is not a performance enhancing drug. John Fahey, WADA boss said,…

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