Illegal Drugs Laws: Clearing a 50-Year-Old Obstacle to Research

The United Nations drug control conventions of 1960 and 1971 and later additions have inadvertently resulted in perhaps the greatest restrictions of medical and life sciences research. These conventions now need to be revised to allow neuroscience to progress unimpeded and to assist in the innovatio...

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Autor principal: Nutt, David
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2015
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Perspective
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4307971/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25625189
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.1002047
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spelling pubmed-43079712015-02-06 Illegal Drugs Laws: Clearing a 50-Year-Old Obstacle to Research Nutt, David PLoS Biol Perspective The United Nations drug control conventions of 1960 and 1971 and later additions have inadvertently resulted in perhaps the greatest restrictions of medical and life sciences research. These conventions now need to be revised to allow neuroscience to progress unimpeded and to assist in the innovation of treatments for brain disorders. In the meantime, local changes, such as the United Kingdom moving cannabis from Schedule 1 to Schedule 2, should be implemented to allow medical research to develop appropriately. Public Library of Science 2015-01-27 /pmc/articles/PMC4307971/ /pubmed/25625189 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.1002047 Text en © 2015 David Nutt http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are properly credited.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4307971/
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