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Thin white line of future drug control & ‘O’ blood might protect against dementia - C C - Jun 6, 2015
http://mindhacks.com/2015/06/02/the-thin-white-line-of-future-drug-control/
EXCERPT: The UK Government have announced they want to change the drugs law and ban “[any] substance which is capable of producing a psychoactive effect”. It’s a fairly clumsy attempt to tackle the wave of ‘legal highs’ but there’s a little psychopharmacological gem, hidden away [...] you can’t confidently predict what a drug will do to the mind from its chemical structure. [...] Interestingly, this means both the manufacturers of new psychoactive compounds and the UK government will have the same problem. Because you can’t do a chemical test on a new drug and say for sure it’s psychoactive, and animal tests won’t give you a definite answer, someone has to take it to find out.... Grey market labs in China and Eastern Europe solve this problem by, well, getting someone to take the drugs....
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‘O’ blood type is associated with larger grey-matter volumes in the cerebellum
EXCERPT: [...] Although Model 2 seems to suggest that having a ‘O’ blood type might play a role in protection against those conditions in which temporal and mediotemporal volumetric loss is observed (Alzheimer's disease), additional supporting evidence is needed....