…the use of psychedelics… [are historically] prevalent outside of clinical trials. The trajectory of cannabis looked pretty similar. After years of the plant being buried under a [unconstitutional and unjust] reputation, legal restrictions began to loosen after new research showed promising medical applications. What followed was an explosion of highly branded, startup-lingo-laden cannabis companies, which…
Support rose to 60 percent after voters were given more information about the measure’s provisions. That’s more than twice as many as said they oppose the reform, which stayed at 27 percent. “In sum, the survey results show a clear path to victory for Initiative 81 with a strong campaign,” the polling memo says. “Despite…
As long as he worked in the company [Sandoz], he was quite a conservative man, keeping his distance from the [so-called] counterculture, but the older he became, the more open he was to LSD use that went beyond therapy. …one of the most important things about LSD is that it can reconnect people with the living…
Via its vertically integrated… medicine… pursuing the development and commercialization… Dr. Michael Hoffer [otolaryngologists; also known ear, nose & throat doctors), has secured a sustainable supply of psilocybin under a DEA schedule I license, which will be used for ongoing psilocybin-based therapeutics studies. The psilocybin is to be provided by the same organization that has…
As Washington was one of the first states to legalize recreational marijuana, there was this necessity to keep it “clean” and legitimate. “Washington state purposely excluded folks with criminal records, which disproportionately impacted folks in the medical [marijuana] community, because a lot of them had felony convictions for transporting and selling medicinal products,” [Michele] Cadigan said.…
“Planting home grows this season is more important than ever. Laws should be relaxed so people can grow their own… affordably…” “Cannabis people know how to manage crises, particularly those of us who have been around a while. We have a lot to contribute right now. We have huge opportunities to show our neighbors and…
…increasingly shifting away from drugs that require planting and growing seasons, like heroin and marijuana… in favor of synthetic opioids such as fentanyl, which can be cooked 24/7 throughout the year, are up to 50 times more powerful than heroin and produce a greater profit margin. Original Article (SFGate):‘Cartels are scrambling’: Virus snarls global drug…
[Some] store operators say it’s about time regulators began treating marijuana stores on par with comparable retailers. An estimated 243,000 full-time-equivalent employees worked in the legal marijuana industry across the U.S. as of January 2020… that’s up 15% in a single year. In comparison, the politically popular coal mining industry employs just about 50,000, according…
The San Pedro cactus evolved thirty or forty million years ago… Like many plants, the San Pedro cactus converts amino acids into compounds known as alkaloids … [psychologist] Heinrich Klüver determined that most mescaline [visions] followed a sequence of visual stages and featured groups of repeating motifs: a latticework or filigree that Jay calls ‘the…
One of the biggest overhauls in the agreement, though, was a change the league had long resisted: loosening the rules governing players’ use of marijuana. Over the years, the N.F.L. had resisted loosening its marijuana rules to avoid conflicting with federal and state laws. But as more states have approved the use of marijuana for…
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