The change in attitudes will be seen as a further step towards decriminalisation and follows claims by drug experts that police forces across Britain are quietly turning a blind eye to cannabis use in order to focus their attentions on more pressing priorities. Those caught smoking or cultivating the drug on a small scale in…
The FDA (Food and Drug Administration) has granted breakthrough therapy designation to MDMA (street name, ecstasy ; clinical name, empathy) for the treatment of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The phase 3 trials will assess the efficacy and safety of MDMA-assisted psychotherapy in 200 to 300 participants with PTSD, 18 years of age and older, at…
Inside a previously unremarkable circle of grass about 10 metres in diameter, a bold new precedent for drugs policy was set in the UK. Pitched on the grass at the Secret Garden Party festival in Cambridgeshire, was a tent run by The Loop, a not for profit drug and alcohol service. For those few days…
Police in the Philippines are performing door-to-door drug testing in [a poor neighbourhood home to the Philippines’ largest landfill site], and adding people’s names to a list if they test positive for drug use – while the death toll of the country’s drug war slaughter continues to surge. Groups of police officers are going from…
Kevin Saunders, running for Mayor of Marina, California, has proposed a ballot measure that would decriminalize psilocybin for adults over 21-years-old. Saunders claimed the mushrooms helped him kick his heroin addiction 15 years ago. At least 365,880 verified signatures in support of the measure would need to be collected before it could appear on California’s…
In both agencies [Marines & Police], I was highly praised, awarded, and promoted very quickly, always the youngest everywhere I went. I was the youngest Sergeant in FAST, youngest detective in major case narcotics and youngest Sergeant in BPD. I’ve completed over 300 training courses with collegiate credit, innumerable others training events, and I earned…
The federal government named Logan in Queensland as its second site for its drug-testing trial of new unemployment recipients from 2018 on Wednesday, drawing the ire of the local mayor. The Victorian government slammed the program when it was announced earlier this year and Premier Daniel Andrews says his stance has not changed. “I think…
One of the most surprising findings is the simplicity of the process, says David Sherman, a medicinal chemist at the University of Michigan who wasn’t involved in the paper. In only five steps, the mushroom’s enzymes convert tryptophan, a widely occurring amino acid (a building block of protein) into psilocybin. In a study published in…
Thousands of demonstrators have taken to the streets of the Philippine capital of Manila to denounce President Rodrigo Duterte’s war on drugs… Amid public pressure, Duterte said on Monday there could have been abuses in his anti-drug war policy. “There is a possibility that in some of police incidents there could be abuses. I admit…
A horrifying image of a schoolboy being dragged to a violent death in a dirty alleyway has galvanised the Philippines against a brutal state-led war on drugs that has killed over 12,500 people in the last year. His killing last week has united the public, senior politicians and the Catholic Church into the most significant…
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