The city of Denver granted its first license on Monday to a business that will allow marijuana use on its premises. The Coffee Joint plans to charge patrons a $5 entry fee and permit them to consume their own cannabis in edible or vapor form.Denver voters approved a measure to create a social-use pilot program in 2016. Interested businesses…
The pulse of dance-club music plays like a jungle beat, as thumping bass notes flirt with flashing lights, liquor and ecstasy of the pharmaceutical kind. Miles and miles away, a little-known multi-billion dollar battle is playing out in the remote wilderness of Cambodia There is a growing, and perhaps just as deadly, price being paid…
“Members of the public can bring substances of concern for free, anonymous and non judgemental forensic analysis by PhD chemists. “They then receive the results as part of a brief intervention by a healthcare professional with the overall aim of reducing drug-related harm. Fiona Measham, director of The Loop and professor of criminology at Durham…
All 25 marijuana dispensaries in Oregon passed the latest round of state minor decoy operations. The Oregon Liquor Control Commission (OLCC), which regulates the marijuana industry, periodically sends minors to try to buy marijuana from retail outlets. The latest operations targeted dispensaries in Portland, Bend and Salem, all of which had a compliance rate of…
“People must know about it. The consumers must also know that maybe if they think they’re buying LSD it may not be the case.” … The stamps found in Laval portray a man riding a bicycle on a green and red background. This appears to be the first time fentanyl has appeared on paper blotters…
Reversing years of opposition to the drug when he served in Congress, the Republican announced that his “thinking on cannabis has evolved.” John Boehner said: “I’m convinced de-scheduling the drug is needed so we can do research, help our veterans, and reverse the opioid epidemic ravaging our communities.” We need to look no further…
During Prohibition, drinkers never knew what they would get when they set out to slake their thirst. Bootleggers often sold products adulterated with industrial alcohol and other toxins. Some 10,000 people were fatally poisoned before America gave up this grand experiment in suppressing vice. Fentanyl was just the beginning. The latest additive is carfentanil, a…
Duterte has responded to increased criticism of his anti-drug campaign by impugning, harassing, and threatening critics of the government and human rights defenders. Since the “drug war” began on June 30, 2016, Duterte and his officials have publicly reviled, humiliated and, in one instance, jailed human rights advocates. Senator Leila de Lima, the president’s chief…
A 63-year-old man named Paul Lee Corbett believed the specimen he discovered was an unidentified subspecies, and he hoped to study and analyze it in detail later… Corbett maintains that he did not commit a crime. The mushrooms in question were large and red, growing in a wood chip pile. There was a sign…
When the vending machine first arrived, McNesby worried about his restaurant becoming a hot spot of Tucson’s opioid epidemic. “I did until I saw people who I believe had character. Or people who were trying to gain character. And there was a thing that seemed to be sincerely helping them,” he said. It was that…
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