Modern Culture

The jury is in on cannabis legalization in North America: it’s been a success.

Not only do drug arrests fall after legalization, but other crime numbers improve as well. Violent crime fell by 10 percent in Washington State after legalization. Research has also identified that crime rates in neighborhoods with retail cannabis stores see a localized drop crime rates due, in part, to the disruption of illicit drug markets. Writing in…

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Science

‘Magic mushroom’ chemicals could be legal sooner than you think, if scientists have their way

*mushroom picture not for identification purposes So if the called-for reclassification does indeed take place, psilocybin would go from being treated like an outlawed narcotic to – basically – a prescription sleeping pill. “We should be clear that psilocybin is not without risks of harm, which are greater in recreational than medical settings,” Johnson says.…

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Biography/Memoir

Sheriff releases videos of deputies making ‘callous comments’ about drug-addled inmate

“Look what I brought for show-and-tell today.”  … “Has he tried to eat anyone’s face yet?” …  “I wish we could show this to his girlfriend like, ‘You love this?”​ -Three Oregon deputies’ on cellphone videos while an inmate was in a padded jail cell and flailing around uncontrollably from a drug overdose. Perry [an Iraqi veteran] arrived…

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Science

This parasite drugs its hosts with the psychedelic chemical in shrooms [and a crystal meth-like amphetamine]

*”the cicadas walk around as if nothing’s wrong even though a third of their body has fallen off (and they are in the process of dying, while infecting those around them” *warning : using psilocybin in combination with amphetamines is NOT recommended. Potential negative side-effects are extreme. The team took great pains to check that Massospora [pictured above] really does contain…

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