June 2016 – ECFES

The current state of research on ayahuasca

June 16, 2016By admin0 comment

A systematic review of human studies assessing psychiatric symptoms, neuropsychological functioning, and neuroimaging. Acute AYA administration was well tolerated, increased introspection and positive mood, altered visual perceptions, activated frontal and paralimbic regions and decreased default mode network activity. It also improved planning and inhibitory control and impaired working memory, and showed anti-depressive and anti-addictive potentials.…

Politics

The case for legalizing psychedelic drugs

June 14, 2016By admin0 comment

It does mean that psychedelic drug use can be explained in evolutionary terms as a “hack” that enables transcendent states to be reached quickly. If this story is true, what are its implications? One is that psychedelic drug use is no different, in principle, to practices like chanting, fasting, praying and meditating that religions typically…

Modern Culture

The dark side of ayahuasca

June 14, 2016By admin0 comment

“It reminds me of how they sell cocaine and marijuana in Amsterdam,” one local said. “Here, it’s shamans and ayahuasca.” No one monitors the medicine men, their claims, or their credentials. With money rolling in and lodges popping up across Peru’s sprawling Amazon, a new breed of shaman has emerged – and not all of…

Biography/Memoir

Mysterious W-18 creeping into B.C., Delta police warned June 7th, 2016, they found drug here

June 8, 2016By admin0 comment

A few tiny salt-like grains of fentanyl are enough to get a person high. W-18 is even more potent. B.C. addictions specialist warns against ‘mass hysteria’ but admits W-18 ‘very scary’. A B.C. addictions expert is warning people not to become hysterical about W-18, but is urging drug users to protect themselves by taking tiny…

Science

Chronic marijuana use is about as bad for your health as not flossing, researchers find

June 7, 2016By admin0 comment

After controlling for other factors known to affect health, especially tobacco use and socioeconomic status, marijuana use had no negative effect on any measure of health, except for dental health. People who smoked more weed had a higher incidence of gum disease. It’s also worth pointing out that this particular study looked at the impact…

Spirituality

United Methodist resolution regarding the war on drugs

June 7, 2016By admin0 comment

To that end, we offer the following resolution as an appeal to end the so-called “War on Drugs.” Whereas: The public policy of prohibition of certain narcotics and psychoactive substances, sometimes called the “War on Drugs,” has failed to achieve the goal of eliminating, or even reducing, substance abuse and… Whereas: There have been a…

Politics

The DEA is getting dragged ‘kicking and screaming’ into the new world of marijuana

June 5, 2016By admin0 comment

“Once we tame the black market and show people a formerly illegal substance can be legalized and regulated, it becomes harder to use the same scare tactics.” Nationwide, between 21,000 and 33,000 businesses get some or all of their revenue from the marijuana industry. Legalization efforts have also proved hearty in the face of legal…

Politics

Why governments worldwide are changing tack in the war on drugs

June 4, 2016By admin0 comment

The dominoes keep falling. Ireland is the latest country to begin the process of decriminalising small amounts of drugs such as heroin, cocaine and cannabis for personal use. It joins at least 25 more countries around the world that have decided to remove users – not drugs – from the criminal justice system. What does…

Anthropology

Ireland to ‘decriminalise’ small amounts of drugs, including heroin, cocaine and cannabis, for personal use

June 4, 2016By admin0 comment

Stressing a distinction between legalisation and decriminalisation, he said it would remain a crime to sell, distribute or profit from illicit drugs. But it would not be a crime to be a drug user or addict. “This will be a wider discussion under the next government but once people get their head around the argument,…

Anthropology

Canada’s marijuana legalisation could directly affect the global war on drugs among many others

June 4, 2016By admin0 comment

It’s Trudeau’s call now. The nationwide cannabis legalisation may be a good thing, but he also needs to convince other countries that it’s not just a Canadian thing. Canada’s legalisation of marijuana, for both recreational and medicinal purposes, will be a historical moment for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, and such a thing will not go…

Monthly Archives: June 2016

The current state of research on ayahuasca

The case for legalizing psychedelic drugs

The dark side of ayahuasca

Mysterious W-18 creeping into B.C., Delta police warned June 7th, 2016, they found drug here

Chronic marijuana use is about as bad for your health as not flossing, researchers find

United Methodist resolution regarding the war on drugs

The DEA is getting dragged ‘kicking and screaming’ into the new world of marijuana

Why governments worldwide are changing tack in the war on drugs

Ireland to ‘decriminalise’ small amounts of drugs, including heroin, cocaine and cannabis, for personal use

Canada’s marijuana legalisation could directly affect the global war on drugs among many others

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