The American Kratom Association (AKA) sent an action alert to members warning that a bill introduced by Sen. Chuck Grassley and Sen. Dianne Feinstein could be a “backdoor way” of banning kratom — an herbal supplement that millions of people use as an alternative to opioid painkillers. But reform advocates are worried that the…
Post-acutely, ayahuasca potentiates mindfulness capacities in volunteers, and induces rapid and sustained antidepressant effects in treatment-resistant patients. Here we investigated in an open-label uncontrolled study in sixteen healthy volunteers ayahuasca-induced post-acute neurometabolic and connectivity modifications, and their association with mindfulness measures. Original Article (Pubmed):Assessing the psychedelic “after-glow” in ayahuasca usersArtwork Fair Use: Jacob Botter
The real wealth lives on the surface of the ground… Mexico would profit much more by letting silver, the ‘excrement of the Moon’, remain buried, and instead take advantage of the natural medical and therapeutic wealth of peyote to help cure modern man of his ‘sickness of the heart’. Currently, several companies are itching to…
*Distribution of Federal prisoners in the United States since 1950 In the face of this [overdose] crisis, Jeff Sessions has re-declared the war on drugs, a five-decade old boondoggle that civil-rights organizations, economists and even some law-enforcement groups believe to be discredited by years of failure. The war on drugs has already cost U.S.…
“America is more addicted to drug money than they are addicted to drugs.” -former DEA agent named Celerino Castillo “We have a [current] administration … promising to bring back the War on Drugs’ most draconian policies, including mandatory sentencing laws,” Lappé says. “Policies that most experts on all ends of the spectrum agree do little…
Policies based on punishment and stigma will only make our drug problems spiral. The path back to sanity can only come through love, compassion – and a regulated trade. For most of the history of the United States, drugs were legal. People could buy opiates and cocaine-based products from their local pharmacy. An opiate-laced…
Government policies are clear, and they encourage local police to allow drugs to flow on the streets. Here’s why: If the police seize drugs, they have to destroy them. If the police seize cash they get to keep it. This is a huge incentive for cash-strapped police departments to allow drugs to be “liquidated” –…
We recognise that entering structured treatment is not always possible, or even desired by some individuals, and these people would be most likely to benefit from Safer Consumption Rooms. While we are not currently looking to establish any facilities of this nature, we would certainly be open to working with any of our commissioners who…
To make psilocybin an FDA approved medication, there are still many hurdles to jump through. Phase 3 clinical trials need to be done to continue to show it’s safety and efficacy, and these studies are long and expensive to perform. A recent clinical review of psilocybin, the active compound in “magic mushrooms”, shows that it…
Could kratom help deal with Canada’s current opioid crisis, which has become worse than any infectious epidemic? A study published in the journal Current Drug Targets in April 2017 confirmed that kratom does have potential. “Other than the analgesic property, kratom has been used as an agent to overcome opioid withdrawal as it contains natural…
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