Spokesman Bob Josephson said the [State of Oregon] was inappropriately substituting its judgment for the judgment of experts at U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum charged that Purdue has engaged in racketeering and misleading activity over the last decade. A spokesman at Purdue Pharma, Robert Josephson (who describes himself on LinkedIN as “deep and rich…
It’s a new front in the crucial struggle to roll back the horror that is psychedelic prohibition. There are now two fronts open. First, there is the laborious, time-intensive and money-intensive pathway to obtaining the federal government’s approval of psychedelic substances for marketing in interstate commerce (i.e. demonstrating to the satisfaction of the FDA that…
FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb started the interview by explaining that the FDA has approved synthetic versions of cannabinoids and pharmaceutical-grade derivatives of marijuana—and arguing that those products are preferable to using botanical cannabis for medical purposes. When the conversation turned to federal marijuana laws, Gottlieb drew a stark contrast between legalization and decriminalization… “Well, you know, there’s…
Cannabis, like all psychoactive drugs, puts the user on a different level from the sober person, or from people on other drugs. That creates a distance. Drunk people can talk to each other wonderfully; two dudes on acid see the same visual distortions but for a dude who’s wasted [on liquor] to talk to a…
*ECfES Conservatory The fallout from the murder of Maestra Arévalo Lomas is emblematic of a common problem, what we are framing as spiritual extractivism. NGOs have left, foreigners have forgotten, and ayahuasca tourism is doing what ayahuasca tourism does – come in, get the medicine, feel unified with the universe, go back. However, as the…
The psychedelic train is pulling out of the station, and people are giddy with excitement, waving as the train beings to move … Black and brown people [& a surprisingly large number of whites] including the elderly, young people, veterans, and the disabled are left standing on the platform as the train chugs away. Understanding the…
“The report demonstrates that opportunities for people to be healthy are not shared equally among neighborhoods, even when they’re just a few miles apart in the same county,” according to the Oregon Health Authority. “This report tells us we have a lot of work to do to ensure everyone in Oregon has a chance to…
All of this comes not a moment too soon. Studies show that psychedelics have extraordinary efficacy in treating the illnesses that currently plague America: trauma, addiction, depression, anxiety, isolation, disaffection, and crippling fear of death. Forty years after going underground, the conversation around psychedelics is coming back into the open… Psychedelics went underground but did not go…
…a key tenet of the MDL (Model Drug Law) is to end all criminal penalties relating to personal drug use and possession, as such criminalisation causes wide-ranging health problems for people who use drugs – and society more broadly … Decriminalisation of personal drug possession exists in some form in over a dozen countries and has led…
[All] problems won’t disappear with decriminalization, but measures such as drug-checking are facilitated and, if safety of supply becomes a priority, governments can opt to legalize and regulate, as they are doing with cannabis. When possession of drugs is a crime, it creates giant barriers to harm reduction and treatment. First and foremost, it means…
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