“Legalization changes everything,” Laycock said. “Religious use may not violate state law in some of these states. And if it does, legalizing recreational use but not religious use clearly discriminates against religion.” As more states ease access to marijuana, churches that offer pot as a sacrament are proliferating, competing with medical marijuana dispensaries and pot…
*Oregon Poverty Rates 2017 But for Jay, rehab hadn’t worked and he refused to try methadone (“a horrendous drug. I’ve seen what it does to people and I didn’t want to replace one addiction for another”) I met Jay one afternoon at a café near his home in north London. He’d initially found a clinic…
“People consume cannabis on the holidays and they always have,” Smith said. “Now they are doing so through a regulated system.” Legalization means pot lovers can legally do something they’ve always done, which is give away marijuana to people they love, said Aaron Smith, executive director of the National Cannabis Industry Association. Original Article (NP…
If kratom is banned many people will suffer or even die. They will be forced to seek stronger and more dangerous options. Kratom is a necessary and under-utilized tool to combat this nation’s opioid epidemic. Show the people that you will actually listen. Show them that we do have a voice. Renew our faith in…
The data suggests the epidemic, which has already ravaged countless communities, is becoming even deadlier. Reports have chronicled how potent synthetics such as fentanyl are becoming more common — and more dangerous. “It’s a problem across the board, and we’re seeing increases from all groups,” Anderson said. “People of all walks of life are dying…
“Contrary to popular wisdom, we found an immediate increase in crime around dispensaries ordered to close relative to those allowed to remain open,” said Jacobson. “We can conclude from our research that retail businesses are effective in lowering crime, even when the retail business is a medical marijuana dispensary.” In the study, titled, “Going to…
The hypothesized mechanisms underlying the effectiveness of MDMA-assisted psychotherapy to treat PTSD are not based on its producing euphoria, but rather on its capacity to make confronting trauma-related thoughts, feelings, and memories more tolerable during therapeutic processing with support of a co-therapy team. MDMA is a monoamine releaser, but unlike stimulants, it preferentially releases serotonin,…
Yu Haibin, director of precursor chemical control at the National Narcotics Control Commission, the Chinese equivalent of the DEA, also blamed the “growing demand” for fentanyl among U.S. users, and said the opioid problem is “strongly connected” to state-level marijuana legalization. “Many states in the U.S. are still working on legalizing marijuana, trends like this…
The no-arrest pilot refers to all drugs, including the most dangerous Class A (ie, Schedule 1) substances. Thames Valley Police said people in possession of large quantities of drugs… would continue to be arrested.[They] added: “We are aware some people may think that (it is a soft approach), but there is nothing soft about trying…
Why, in an age when nearly every party drug is being pushed into federal trials for addiction and mental illness, when drug tourists who fetishize the mysticism associated with indigenous hallucinogens are in the market for ever-bigger thrills, and when the opioid epidemic is killing tens of thousands each year, have so few Americans heard…
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