If I was in charge of drug policy, first I’d acknowledge that our current criminalized drug scheduling system is based on nothing but ignorance and bigotry and issue an apology for all the harms caused by the policies of prohibition and criminalization. I’d get rid of the drug schedule system entirely. I’d immediately end all…
Gov. Tina Kotek signaled Wednesday [1/31/24] she is willing to sign a bill that would once again make possessing small amounts of drugs a criminal offense in Oregon… “It’s a complex proposal and I’m watching it evolve and we’ll see where it ends up,” Kotek said. The remarks are the strongest Kotek has made to…
Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek, Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler and Multnomah County Chair Jessica Vega Pederson made the declaration for a 90-day period during which collaboration and response will come from a command center downtown… an incident command structure akin to those used during emergency events such as the coronavirus pandemic or severe weather incidents. The…
The bill from Del. Guy Guzzone (D) and five cosponsors would establish a “Task Force on Responsible Use of Natural Psychedelic Substances” under the state Department of Health… will be required to study and make policy recommendations on, including “systems to support statewide online sales of natural psychedelic substances with home delivery” They would need…
…reasoning [against Oregon’s Measure 110] presumably is that decriminalization encouraged drug use and attracted more drug users to the city, boosting demand and therefore black-market activity. But the violence that attends such activity, which is notably absent from legal markets in drugs such as alcohol, is entirely a product of prohibition. Just as Measure 110…
…lawmakers in both parties offer up proposals that would make drug possession a crime for the first time in three years… reinstituting criminal penalties for possession of a controlled substance by making the offense a class C misdemeanor… crime classification… punishable by up to 30 days in jail and a fine of as much as…
On the heels of legal weed… this emphasis on consistency makes sense: psilocybin can have a much wider range of effects than weed… provides customers with handouts about the strength and effects of different mushrooms… specialty strains, like a farmer’s market vendor preserving heirloom vegetables. …mushroom chocolates have made the leap from truffles homebrewed by…
A Colorado biosciences company is hoping that one day patients with anxiety will be able to get a prescription from their doctor to microdose psychedelic mushrooms, pick it up at the local pharmacy and have it covered by insurance. Joel Stanley is the CEO of Ajna BioSciences in Littleton, Colorado. He says the company received…
…researchers at the University of Chicago have discovered that low doses of lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD), a psychedelic drug, may have potential antidepressant effects in individuals showing mild to moderate depressive symptoms… the findings have been published in the journal Neuropsychopharmacology. “There has been a great deal of public interest in ‘microdosing,’ or the idea…
“AlphaFold is an absolute revolution. If we have a good structure, we should be able to use it for drug design,” says Jens Carlsson, a computational chemist at the University of Uppsala in Sweden. Efforts to apply AlphaFold to finding new drugs have been met with considerable skepticism, says Brian Shoichet, a pharmaceutical chemist at…
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