Like a barrier between forlorn lovers, the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (TBB) just won’t let the two substances unite [for now]. Province Brands [of Canada] is developing what could very well be the first legal beer brewed from cannabis. They filed a patent for the first beers brewed from the cannabis…
They’ve raised roughly $20 million for their company from some extremely savvy investors. George Goldsmith and Katya Malievskaia are a married couple whose startup – Compass Pathways – will soon launch the largest triple-blind clinical trial ever of a psychedelic drug. The drug is psilocybin, which is the active ingredient in psychedelic mushrooms. And the…
“Every day spent doggedly pursuing punitive, ideologically driven drug control strategies that have never worked, and have no realistic expectation of success in the future, means another 91 dead [from overdose]. We have a public health crisis on our hands. And we have solutions, if only we are allowed to pursue them, rather than go…
Canada has become the first wealthy nation in the world to fully legalize marijuana. The Senate approved Bill C-45, also known as the Cannabis Act, on Tuesday, June 19th, 2018 . The measure was already approved by the House of Commons, so the Senate’s approval means it’s now set to become law. The measure legalizes…
For the first time ever, a provision protecting state medical marijuana laws is being included in base funding legislation for the U.S. Department of Justice. “The Senate Appropriations Committee finally read the writing on the wall and accepted the inevitable, that allowing the Department of Justice to interfere with state-legal medical marijuana programs is…
Why are the DEA, FDA, and “treatment providers” seeking to ban the plant kratom [and criminalize those who utilize it for health and healing purposes]? Chemicals & Control “The American Society of Addiction Medicine argued [to the DEA] that the whole botanical product [Kratom]… should be made illegal … At the same time, they recommended…
Labor camps across China began changing their names to drug centers [in 2017]… Many of the camps have housed drug rehab centers since mid-2008, when a new Anti-Drug Law came into force. Police can sentence drug offenders without trial to two years or more of compulsory rehabilitation, which can include forced labor, according to the…
*for example, Chrisian Ratsch reports that Psilocybe azurescens (dry weight) contains 1.29 to 1.78% psilocybin, 0.18 to 0.37% baeocystin, and 0.27 to 0.5% psilocin. As a professional neuroscientist with an interest in psychedelic medicines, it is clear to me that the attempt to reduce organisms to single active principles is challenged by the sheer complexity…
“It is curious to me that what I see as the two greatest threats—environmental crisis and [political] tribalism—these drugs directly address both those mindsets. They undermine our tendency to objectify nature, to think of ourselves as separate from it. They undermine tribalism in that people tend to emerge from these experiences thinking that we are…
The study, led by UC Davis chemist David E. Olson, was published Tuesday, June 12th, in the journal Cell Reports. The discovery of this neurite-promoting property could shed light on why these chemically distinct drugs all appear helpful in treating depression, anxiety, addiction and post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD, Olson said. In test tubes as well as…
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