By August 11 [2024], the Food and Drug Administration is expected to decide whether MDMA – the chemical found in ecstasy or molly – can be prescribed as a treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder. The downvote in June [2024] – not to mention controversy about the trials that spilled into full view during a public hearing –…
“We must offer people suffering from addiction alternatives to incarceration or we will be right back where we started,” Multnomah County Chair Jessica Vega Pederson said at a press conference. “When the drug possession laws change on Sept. 1, [2024], it is so important for us to be ready.” In Multnomah County, only people possessing…
…psychedelics have been an essential companion in our relationship… it’s the secret to our long-lasting marriage. Through much practice and commitment, we have developed an open, honest communication style, and we can have hard conversations without being high. But the advantage of psychedelics… is that they help us to be vulnerable by quickly dropping our defenses,…
“The ubiquity of fentanyl in the drug supply affords people who use drugs almost no margin of error if they make a dosing mistake,” Brandon del Pozo, an assistant professor (research) at Brown University’s Warren Alpert Medical School and School of Public Health said … …for decades, efforts by police to seize illicit drugs have…
The Oregon Secretary of State’s office on Thursday [August 1, 2024] confirmed that a proposed measure that would block cannabis retailers and processors from opposing employee unions has enough signatures to officially become Ballot Measure 119. Under the proposed measure, owners of cannabis retail and processing businesses would be required to sign a “labor peace…
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