Spirituality

Messed up after ayahuasca ceremony?

I’m a massive advocate for being ridiculously picky about who you join in ceremony … Sometimes we have to visit the darkest corners of our consciousness to let go of what ails us; if that’s the case, you really want to be with someone who has done the same work on themselves.​ I work both…

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Psychology

The American Kratom Association (AKA) demands FDA stop its disinformation campaign against kratom

Nine leading scientists say kratom is safe. The nine respected scientists pointed out that “kratom provides a far more favorable safety profile for consumers compared to more dangerously addictive and potentially deadly classical opioid medications.” They also pointed out that the FDA’s solution – to file a new drug application for kratom – made no…

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Politics

Jeff Sessions to end legal marijuana policy…

Jeff Sessions has just shown “how out of touch he is with scientists and taxpayers” and that siccing federal prosecutors on pot offenders will just needlessly jam the jails with more prisoners, said Jasmine Taylor of Human Rights Watch. “This will no doubt spike arrests and fuel mass incarceration, largely for people of color, but…

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Biography/Memoir

Feds arrest[ed] 6 former Insys execs for allegedly bribing doctors

The Department of Justice (DOJ) alleges that the executives took part in a “nationwide conspiracy” to give healthcare providers kickbacks in exchange for the improper prescribing of Subsys—an opioid medication containing the highly addictive substance fentanyl, which is considered even more dangerous than painkillers like Vicodin. “As alleged, top executives of Insys Therapeutics, Inc. paid…

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Biography/Memoir

Indicted Insys executives face October 2018 trial

Accused of bribing doctors to prescribe a spray version of the opioid fentanyl intended to treat cancer pain, often to patients without cancer… Subsys is meant to provide pain relief to cancer patients who are going through particularly excruciating pain episodes. It’s reserved for these neediest of patients due to its potency and addictive qualities.…

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Biography/Memoir

Jeff Sessions wages war on natural weed, as he grants maker of fentanyl a monopoly on synthetic THC

Instead of allowing people to use a natural form of a plant that can cure them, Jeff Sessions will use taxpayer dollars to continue cannabis prohibition while his DEA grants a monopoly on the exact same substance—only synthetic—to Insys [who has attempted to stop the natural marijuana market and were arrested for allegedly bribing doctors]. Along with the executives,…

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Psychology

Classic psychedelic drugs may reduce criminal behaviour, says recent study

“Our findings suggest the protective effects of classic psychedelic use are attributable to genuine reductions in antisocial behaviour rather than reflecting improved evasion of arrest. Simply put, the positive effects associated with classic psychedelic use appear to be reliable. Given the costs of criminal behaviour, the potential represented by this treatment paradigm is significant.” -UBC…

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Science

Magic mushrooms can effectively treat depression without ‘blunting’ emotions like anti-depressants: Study

“I believe that psychedelics hold a potential to cure deep psychological wounds, and I believe that by investigating their neuropsychopharmacological mechanism, we can learn to understand this potential,” study author Leor Roseman, a PhD student at Imperial College London told PsyPost. A study has revealed that majority of patients taking mushrooms, seemed to have eased…

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