Wednesday, May 25, 2011

Your news is biased.

Glasgow Caledonian University in the UK, illustrated how the public's perception of drugs' risks is distorted by selective reporting. They published a 10-year review of drug deaths in Scotland which showed that the chances of newspapers reporting a death from an overdose of paracetamol (acetaminophen) was 1 in 250, a death from amphetamine was 1 in 3 and that every death from ecstasy was reported.

Thursday, May 5, 2011

The Alkaloids of Peyote

http://isomerdesign.com/PiHKAL/peyote.php?domain=tk

This excellent link lists the alkoloids in peyote and also the structures and additional notes.  Very informative.  Did you know there are pellotine and peyotine as seperate alkaloids?  Check it out.