While neither kava nor kratom have been clinically tested or approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, they’ve been consumed for centuries by the cultures that discovered them — and they’re rapidly gaining popularity in the Tampa Bay area. Both are offered in dozens of bars, tobacco and electronic-cigarette shops and lounges throughout Pinellas…
Sessa told TalkingDrugs that the similarities between alcoholism and PTSD suggest that the treatment could also work for both conditions. “Alcoholism is PTSD as far as I’m concerned,” Sessa told TalkingDrugs. “The vast majority of my patients with alcohol and other addictions are essentially ‘PTSD plus.’” -Dr. Ben Sessa, a consultant child psychiatrist and senior…
By imposing an effective ban on importing kratom (including seizures at ports), the FDA forced manufacturers to shift from high-quality sources of the herb to lesser suppliers, thus increasing the potential for issues such as salmonella, which had never previously been an issue with kratom in the U.S. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)…
Australia’s first pill-testing trial has been hailed as a “tremendous” success by the Australian Capital Territory’s chief health officer, police commissioner, paramedics and drug reform advocates … Two samples were “red-flagged” for their potential lethality … ‘We’ve just taken a big step towards taking back control of the dangerous black market in drugs in order…
*worldwide map of psilocybin mushroom habitat The mushrooms are grown nearby, dried and ground into a fine powder before being decanted into capsules … This is the first time they’ve had a women only retreat. “The #MeToo movement has demonstrated how common sexual harassment and abuse is in our society,” says Maclean. “We wanted to…
On Friday, April 20th, 2018 on the unofficial marijuana holiday known as 4.20, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer announced a plan to decriminalize marijuana at the federal level. The New York Democrat’s support gives the policy a powerful voice as opinions on the substance become more favorable both with voters and within the ranks of…
“Every agricultural crop has its highs and its lows,” she said. “No pun intended.” And because US federal law still prohibits cannabis, Oregon growers cannot legally sell outside the state’s borders … Tristan Reisfar works part-time for a company, High Desert Pure, that produces vapor cartridges and said he fields phone calls from desperate growers…
*Age-standardised disability-adjusted life year (DALY) rates from Post-traumatic stress disorder by country (per 100,000 inhabitants). “We can do legalization and decriminalization, but we need a reparative component to these policies” … Betty Aldworth, the Executive Director of Students for Sensible Drug Policy continued with a plea for more compassion in different drug use contexts. “I…
They didn’t run labs or spawn cults of personality… Though you wouldn’t know it from most retrospectives, many of LSD’s earliest advocates — stretching all the way back to the 1940s — were women. [For example]… On June 12 of [1943], as part of another experiment, she [Susi Ramstein… lab assistant to Albert Hofmann], became…
So he did something bold. He applied to conduct the very first clinical trial on a psychedelic since the ban a whole generation before. He wanted to give psilocybin, a naturally occurring chemical found inside “magic” mushrooms, to “respectable” citizens who had never used it before, to see if they would have a mystical experience…
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