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...vendors selling the dried fungi in head shops, street-corner stands and even over the Internet, scoring mushrooms has become as easy as buying a pack of incense or some herbal tea. Vendors, however, have to walk a fine line. In the case of mushrooms, it is illegal to extract the active ingredients?in most cases, psilocybin?but it isn't illegal to possess the fungus itself. This means vendors can sell the mushrooms, but they can't tell you what to do with them or advertise them as a drug. Ask the girl behind the counter...
Dozens of cosmetic companies have informed the FDA of their use of human placenta, but most have been afraid to advertise it because consumers are squeamish about the substance as well as its source. Mila is supplied by Russian maternity wards, but Shiseido is very secretive about the placental extract in its popular Revitalizing Cream; the Japanese company won't even say what kind of animal it comes from. Progressive Beauty Brands executive David Blum admits his Placenta Plus products sell best overseas and in Hispanic communities, "where there's less resistance to the word placenta...
...public telephone, which was bugged - unconstitutional, said the Court. In another case the civil liberties crowd liked, the Court ruled in 1984 that federal agents couldn't put a beeper in a canister of ether, which they followed to a home where it was used to extract cocaine from clothing...
...biblical proportions as illegal miners burrow into the muddy earth. The ore they bring up from the hundreds of tunnels snaking as far as 70 m under the surface contains minute amounts of gold, a few grams a ton. Their primitive processing techniques require large quantities of mercury to extract the precious metal. Los Angeles-based environmental consultancy Dames and Moore estimates that between 100 and 200 tons of mercury have already seeped into the soil and water around the main mining site at Talawaan. Many tons more are dumped each month...
...that other psychiatrists were encountering a similar influx, he recruited doctors at nearly a dozen medical centers to join him in a clinical trial of the effectiveness of St. John's wort in combatting depression. With unrestricted funding from Pfizer, which makes both the prescription antidepressant Zoloft and an extract of St. John's wort, the doctors recruited 200 subjects, nearly two-thirds of them women in their 40s. All had suffered from major depression for at least four weeks. Some found it difficult to get out of bed or care for their children...