Neighbors and city officials sometimes challenge sites like these because they fear they will promote drug use and increase crime. Research instead suggests that they lead to increases in public order, with fewer discarded needles on the street and less drug use on the sidewalk, and have no impact on drug-related crimes. States and…
How do we determine the optimal drug policy model given how our policy choices impact on such a wide range of outcomes? Simple answer: it’s complicated. So a group of experts have tried & figure out a rational new approach. *Drug policy evaluations – esp for illegal drugs – has historically been poor; emphasizing…
States and cities have suffered the brunt of the cost and carnage of the drug crisis, which killed more than 64,000 people in 2016 and is straining local emergency and health services. About two-thirds of the overdose deaths were caused by opioids, in particular illicit fentanyl. The Justice Department also filed a statement of…
*In 2015, activists with the Weed for Warriors project dumped pill bottles and syringes in front of the White House lawn to drawn attention to the overprescription of opioid drugs to wounded veterans. Then, last May, protesters held a “die-in” at the New Hampshire State House when U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price…
Customers could vaporize flower and concentrates, but no smoking would be allowed in the consumption areas in order to remain compliant with the Colorado Clean Indoor Air Act. If passed, the bill would create the first statewide licensing program for cannabis consumption. The City of Denver is currently the only municipality in Colorado that licenses…
Not that Denver NORML is arguing in favor of on-the-job marijuana use being allowed. Instead, Golden’s language prohibits firing or penalizing a worker unless he or she “used, possessed or was impaired by marijuana during the hours of employment.” “The first thing it would do is amend the unlawful prohibition of legal activities as a…
Given this scenario, Harlos began looking around for pain-killing alternatives — and marijuana didn’t do the trick. “I don’t like it, and it doesn’t work for me,” she allows. “It’s not for everyone.” “I have a degenerative back disorder, spinal stenosis, and I’ve been on and off Vicodin for fifteen years,” Harlos says. “I used…
In the end, the board members weren’t persuaded that the kratom deserved immediate destruction. The [plant] material — was seized, and heath department personnel wanted to pour bleach over it, rendering it useless. But [the business] management refused to go along with this plan, prompting the DEH crew to issue a cease-and-desist order in regard…
On Tuesday, Feb. 13th, 2018 the agency said the new computer model [which has been disparaged by some prominent scientists] it developed shows that kratom contains opioid compounds with potentially deadly side effects such as seizures and depressed breathing. The Drug Enforcement Administration is weighing whether to place kratom, which comes from a leafy Southeast Asian tree, in…
Study leader Rachel Thayer, of the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience at the University of Colorado Boulder, and colleagues recently reported their results in the journal Addiction … The team notes that any reduction in the size of white or gray matter or a loss in their integrity can lead to impairments in brain functioning. Scientists at the University…
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