Pill Your Way to An ‘A’? Because Study Buddies Come in All Shapes and Sizes … Like Small and Oblong

As the insurmountable academic stress known as dead week and finals looms like a menacing black cloud above Davidson Library, the student body of UCSB will find themselves in a time management conundr...
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Mind, Body and Soul: 3-Pack or Individually Sold?

You see a shimmering, brilliant white light approaching on the horizon. Your vision begins to rapidly constrict as if you’re traveling through a tightening tunnel at the speed of light. As you soar ...
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Drugs and the Divine: Could Spiritual Transcendence Be Only A Pop, Drop or Toke Away?

“Turn on, tune in, drop out”: this six word catchphrase coined by the psychologist Timothy Leary is most closely associated with the drug counterculture and progressive social transformation of th...
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Follow the Silkroad… To Get Your Drugs and Guns at the End of This Cyperspace Rainbow

Among the Internet’s giant e-commerce sites like Amazon and eBay exists a relatively unknown and secretive marketplace called Silkroad, which operates in a hidden corner of the web. In many ways, Si...
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Giving Green the Green Light: Feds Say ‘No,’ State Says ‘Go’

This past Tuesday, cannabis enthusiasts and weed smokers witnessed some pretty dank political outcomes. First, former pot-smoker and current president, Barack Obama was re-elected; second, both Colora...
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Votes on Tokes: Presidential Candidates’ Stances on Drug Policy

With the approaching Presidential election in two weeks, I decided to devote this issue to the Presidential candidates and their assorted approaches on drug policy. After three debates between Preside...
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Regulation Not Incarceration: Why America’s Drug Policy Needs Some Rehab

In the past 40 years, America has spent a lot of money fighting foreign wars. Vietnam, Iraq, Iraq again, Afghanistan and these wars obviously come with a considerable price tag. However, I’d like to...
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The Low-Down on Numbing Up: A New Look at the Pain Killer Trend

Anyone who’s had wisdom teeth removed or suffered a substantial injury like a fractured collarbone or broken leg may attest to the availability of opioid prescriptions such as Vicodin, Percocet or O...
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MDMA T.V. Show Sparks Controversy, Yet ‘Taboo’ Research Holds Potential to Help

This week, a groundbreaking television documentary will air in the United Kingdom. “Drugs Live: The Ecstasy Trial” (Channel 4) features musician-actor Keith Allen consuming MDMA, the pure form of ...
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UCSB Welcomes Kids For Day of Educational Activities

The Harding University Partnership School brought its entire student body to the UCSB campus last Friday to participate in educational activities with several UCSB faculty members and students. The sc...
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UCSD Tests How Smokers Quit

The UC San Diego School of Medicine released an update in this year’s Annual Review of Public Health about the most successful techniques for helping modern smokers ash the habit. The group made sig...
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Group Seeks Student Volunteers for Humanitarian Efforts

The Growth International Volunteer Excursions program is visiting UCSB today, aiming to draw college students interested in global volunteerism and adventure. G.I.V.E. helps develop rural communities...
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