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Drinkers stay drunk for months?
Don Barnard Press Release
Monday 02 Feb 2004 3/04 Drinkers stay drunk for months? Cannabis Alliance, News Bulletin 13/04 - No Embargo. Please forward to any assignment editor or journalist who you believe may be interested in this. Drinkers stay drunk for months? Cannabis prohibitionists have much of the fact "inactive metabolites" of cannabis remains in the body for months after use. A whole drug testing industry has been built up around the fact that traces of the "inactive" metabolites of cannabis can be detected in users long after the effect has subsided. The drug testing industry, ever anxious.to increase its market, has now devised a method of testing for long term alcohol metabolites in alcohol users. A paper published in the journal Alcohol and Alcoholism [1]shows that metabolites of alcohol remain in the body for long periods and that the fatty acid metabolites of ethyl alcohol; ethyl myristate, ethyl palmitate, ethyl oleate, and ethyl stearate can be detected in the hair of users for months after last use. "So it seems it is not only the lipid soluble metabolites of cannabis that 'remain in the body for months', but the lipid soluble metabolites of alcohol do as well. "Prohibitionist claim that cannabis stays in the body for months, therefore, it is dangerous for cannabis user[s] to work, driver a car, or fly a plane weeks after last use. "I wonder if they will now claim that drinkers stay drunk for months after a binge drinking session." It is worth note the researchers say to distinguish between "social drinkers" and "heavy drinkers" there should be a cut off point for alcohol metabolites of 0.4 ng/mg Press Office Legalise Cannabis Alliance PO Box 198, Norwich, NR3 3WB http://www.lca-uk.org donbarnard@lca-uk.org ------------------- 1] Fatty Acid Ethyl Esters in Hair as Markers of Alcohol Consumption. Segmental Hair Analysis of Alcoholics, Social Drinkers, and Teetotalers, Alcohol & Alcoholism Vol. 39, No. 1, pp. 33-38, 2004 http://alcalc.oupjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/39/1/33
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