High times

Safe Proms in High-Risk Times

Commentary High times for cannabis research

Marijuana is by far the most widely used illicit drug in the Western world, with an estimated 20 million regular users in North America and Europe. Many thousands of patients with AIDS, multiple sclerosis, and other illnesses are also illegally self-medicating with cannabis in the belief that it provides them with a therapeutic benefit. The medical use of cannabis has been highlighted recently ...

New High Speed Switch Offers Sub-50ns Switching Times

An ideal CMOS analog switch would exhibit such characteristics as zero resistance when turned on, infinite resistance when turned off, zero power consumption, and zero switching time. Unfortunately, such a device is usually found as an example in a college textbook. The real world offers trade-offs and imperfections which prevent the realization of the ideal. The integrated circuit designer wor...

High Times: an Ethnography of Young Adult Drug Use

This research explores the phenomenon of ‘legal highs’ or Novel Psychoactive Substances (NPS), directing substantial focus towards the exploration of user attraction. Whilst legal high research is expanding, the topic of legal highs still remains a relatively under-researched topic. In particular, research concerning the user is in short supply, as policy makers remain detached from the importa...

Bust economics: foragers choose high quality habitats in lean times

In environments where food resources are spatially variable and temporarily impoverished, consumers that encounter habitat patches with different food density should focus their foraging initially where food density is highest before they move to patches where food density is lower. Increasing missed opportunity costs should drive individuals progressively to patches with lower food density as ...