…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…
“They tried to kill me, I feel like, but it didn’t work.” … Tyler was arrested in 1992 and convicted in 1994 for selling LSD and cannabis to a police informant … [he spent 26 years in prison] … life after commutation was not easy for Tyler. He described his time in the mandatory residential drug abuse…
But does soon-to-be-filed legislation do enough to ensure social equity under a legal cannabis system? The letter outlines seven policies that Baraka hopes will be featured in the marijuana legalization bill, which legislative leaders have said they hope to introduce and pass as soon as this month … The mayors emphasized the importance of remediating the…
These experiences have to be respected but they are also being commercialised … [we] have advised a serious approach and a respectful acknowledgment of potential danger. It is an attitude that some of the tech millionaires and trend-surfers trying to profit from the hallucinogen’s popularity would do well to heed. In the west, ayahuasca can be…
Western culture has long attempted to denigrate and stamp out the use of this psychedelic plant, but it is gaining clinical interest for its ability to help those who struggle with addiction … Perhaps, as concern about heroin and opioid addiction increases, government officials will reconsider their stance on this. In the United States, ibogaine remains…
Brooklyn moving forward with expungement of past records builds on momentum in other cities around the country. “It’s a little unfair to say we’re no longer prosecuting these cases, but to have these folks carry these convictions for the rest of their lives,” -Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez Original Article (Drug Policy Alliance):Brooklyn District Attorney Eric…
The White House has secretly amassed a committee of federal agencies from across the government to combat public support for marijuana and cast state legalization measures in a negative light, while attempting to portray the drug as a national threat, according to interviews with agency staff and documents Staff believe that if the administration is…
Since their inception, international policies toward drugs have been characterized by being racist, classist, colonialist, and created by a Western elite that has failed to consider the diversity of traditional uses for plants and psychoactive substances. …the importance of these insights into psychoactive plants and their molecules, the diverse areas of research yet to be…
The guidelines indicate members of the Canadian Armed Forces will be allowed to consume and possess cannabis as long as they follow the federal and provincial laws, but face several added regulations about when they can and can’t use the drug. Members of the Armed Forces will not be allowed to consume cannabis during a shift…
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