“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…
“Our goal is to educate in an effort to be proactive rather than reactive,” a spokesperson for Kratom Community Grassroots, a nonprofit advocacy organization, told HuffPost. “Many legislators are leaving office with new Representatives and staff taking their place. Educating will be an ongoing endeavor to increase awareness and maintain our access to kratom.” The…
Vermont became the ninth state in the country to legalize recreational marijuana on Sunday, June 1, 2018. Vermont was the first state to legalize it through its state legislature… The law will allow adults to possess up to one ounce of marijuana. After early successes for the cannabis industry in western states, including Colorado, the…
*Putin : previously a KGB agent What was the United Nations UNGASS 2016 (United Nations General Assembly on the World Drug Problem) about, and how did Russia emerge as the “new global leader” on the “war on some drugs” thereafter? After-all, central to Russia’s interventions was an insistence that the words “harm reduction” not be included…
*[will governments continue to] deny the entourage effect of whole plant botanicals, ban home-grown plants, force consumers to pay for synthetic pills, or go into the black market if they are low-income and/or have no health insurance coverage, increase profits for the treatment industrial complex A ban wouldn’t just impact the estimated 3 to 5 million Americans who use…
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