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Is cannabis a gateway drug?

Evaluates competing explanations for cannabis as a gateway drug, such as shared
illicit market for harder drugs, pre-exposure user characteristics, or a true
gateway effect, pharmacological impact on CNS.
More info:
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=16191720
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Inside The Brain: Revolutionary Discoveries of How the Mind Works
by Kotulak
ISBN: 0836232895
More info:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/er Prize-w/eegspectrum
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Sustained attention, visual processing speed, and IQ in children...
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=16158695

Finding genes in child psychology and psychiatry
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=16178925

Relations with parents and with peers, temperament, and trajectories...
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=16195952

Thinking about children's attachments.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=16177163

Time perception
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=16195956

Sleepwalking and night terrors
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=16194798

Evidence of poor planning in children with attention deficits.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=16195954

Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation as add-on antidepressant...
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=16195088

Sleep disturbance in anxiety disorders.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=16194794

High somatic distress with high long-term stability in selected...
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=16195084

Paternal overprotection in OCD and depression with obsessive...
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=16194254

Dissociative disorders
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=16168022

Phobic anxiety and depression as predictor variables for treatment...
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=16195095

Mixed depressive states
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=16194768

Adolescent drug abuse
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=16181159

Is cannabis a gateway drug? Testing hypotheses about the relationship...
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=16191720

Drug courts and mental health courts
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=16190299

Validation of a method to detect cocaine and its metabolites...
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=16183230

Do individuals with former amphetamine dependence have cognitive...
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=16195133

Physician attitudes regarding the prescription of medical marijuana.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=16186085
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