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  1. Cocaine cut with levamisole, drug used to de-worm animals, causing users' skin to rot off: doctors

    Doctors say the cocaine hitting the streets in New York and Los Angeles is now cut with a drug that veterinarians use to de-worm livestock, causing cokeheads' skin to rot off. Unbelievable, you never know what it's been cut with. Read Full Story: Link Removed
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  2. [Study] Marijuana Shrinks Parts of Brain

    A study of brain scans show that heavy pot smoking can shrink parts of the brain, according to researchers in the Link Removed due to 404 Error Archives of General Psychiatry. Men who smoked at least five marijuana cigarettes daily for 20 years were shown to have a diminished hippocampus and...
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