Politics

Why rescheduling LSD and psilocybin would transform research into treating depression and anxiety

Two decades’ worth of clinical research was first ignored and then forgotten; laboratories and careers were shut down; the War on Drugs claimed thousands of psychiatric patients as the first of its many civilian casualties. If you’ve been paying attention recently you’ll know we are in the midst of a Psychedelic Renaissance, discovering the clinical…

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Politics

Expanding drug courts won’t help ease the opioid crisis

Most drug courts do not reduce imprisonment, do not save money or improve public safety, and ultimately fail to help people struggling with drug problems. Today’s drug courts are no more effective — but are considerably more costly — than voluntary treatment, and often leave their participants worse off for trying. Most U.S. drug courts…

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Biography/Memoir

Jeff Sessions says it would be ‘healthy’ to have ‘more competition’ among medical marijuana growers for research

Jeff Sessions wants to expand the supply of medical marijuana grown for research [He] said he wants to see “more competition” among medical marijuana growers who supply the plant to researchers, in his Wednesday morning testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee. Hatch [R-Utah] co-sponsored a piece of bipartisan legislation, the MEDS Act, which is designed…

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Modern Culture

As Colorado gets ready to allow pot clubs, indoor smoking still an issue

“It’s recreation, so it’s to have fun, it’s to relax, it’s to lounge,” he says. “You don’t necessarily want to do that just by yourself.” Colorado Republicans have brushed off concerns from the [current] administration about the spread of recreational marijuana, throwing their weight behind a bipartisan bill at the state legislature that would officially…

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Psilocybin for treatment-resistant depression: fMRI-measured brain mechanisms

This study was approved by the National Research Ethics Service (NRES) committee London – West London and was conducted in accordance with the revised declaration of Helsinki (2000), the International Committee on Harmonisation Good Clinical Practice (GCP) guidelines and National Health Service (NHS) Research Governance Framework. Imperial College London sponsored the research which was conducted…

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