Modern Culture

To decolonize drugs, start with [understanding]…

…this kind of internalized prohibition “shows how the process of colonialism colonizes not only the land, but the people as well, to become a perpetual machine of oppression against themselves.” …research points to implementation of drug prohibition and penalization policies as a way to “civilize” Indigenous peoples [and “others”]. Over time, these ideas have been…

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Biography/Memoir

National Institutes of Health Director (NIH) praises psychedelics’ potential as therapeutic treatment…

Francis Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) expressed positive remarks about the therapeutic potential of psychedelics such as psilocybin and MDMA. “I think as we’ve learned more about how the brain works we began to realize that these are potential tools for research purposes and might be clinically beneficial,” Collins said. The…

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Biography/Memoir

Psychedelic decrim bill passes in California senate

[These removed California psychedelic decriminalization SB 519 sections] would have had a major impact on getting people out of jail for the possession of drugs that look to be on the verge of decriminalization. We’ve seen a lot of family reunification stories in cannabis over the past few years – it will be nice to…

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Biography/Memoir

Sackler family empire [& 160 financial trusts, 170+ companies] … immunity from opioid lawsuits

Appearing before a congressional panel… December [2020], members of the Sackler family said they had done nothing wrong. “The family and the board acted legally and ethically,” testified David Sackler, who served on Purdue Pharma’s board for six years. This development brings members of the Sackler family, some of whom own Purdue Pharma and served on…

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Medicine/Healing

Over one third of US voters say magic mushrooms and other psychedelics have a medical use, new poll shows

With a growing body of research showing that psychedelic substances have potential medical uses, local governments across the US have begun to take notice.  A study from Imperial College London scientists released in April, for example, found that psilocybin… works about as well as a leading drug (escitalopram) to treat patients with moderate or severe major depressive…

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