He is technically right in that they are the only treatments available in the United States. He is wrong, however, in the bigger picture. Canada and Mexico are among the countries that allow addicts to take ibogaine, which can eliminate withdrawal symptoms in one dose. Ibogaine’s problem here is that it is lumped in with…
“There were months of work getting ethics approval, designing the study, finding the instruments that we would use to collect psychometric data. Then, for four days, we were all holed up in a longhouse.” … In 2011, e was invited to an Indigenous community in a remote area of British Columbia. Working for the Centre…
The B.C. Centre on Substance Use will conduct the Vancouver trials … Health Canada gave the green light for the latest round of trials, and discussions are slated to begin in February [2018] over what the department will need to see in order to approve the treatment … Erika Dyck, a medical historian at the…
…this young man first learned of a drug called MDMA, still legal at the time. Little did he realize that this would be the beginning of a lifelong quest to legitimize a drug in the eyes of a world in which it would soon become taboo. This journey would take over 35 years … Once…
“…basically saved my life,” said Veysey, 33, who works as a prep cook at a Portland retirement home. “I’m able to get up and go to work every day, and have a life. I don’t look at marijuana as a drug anymore.” … Marc Colello, 42, of Auburn said he was a patient of Gullikson,…
LSD and psilocybin are not creations of the sixties. Psilocybin, the chemical in magic mushrooms, has been used in the Americas going back at least a thousand years, and possibly a lot more, as part of religious rituals. It may be that these chemicals are where we developed our religious impulse. Our sense that there…
*Rollsafe.org MDMA safety and harm reduction guidelines HERE Despite being early in the festival season the amount of MDMA – or E – tested by Know Your Stuff (in New Zealand) that was indeed MDMA was higher than ever before, the group’s director Wendy Allison said. Most pills ranged between 80 and 120 milligrams of…
Tyo said one of the roles of the Psychedelic Society isn’t necessarily promoting psychedelic… use, but if someone is using it urges people to do it in a safe and informed way. -Richard Tyo, a registered psychotherapist and member of the Kingston Psychedelic Society, In the hope of spreading awareness of the therapeutic benefits of…
The new penalties take effect today and will run for six months. They include a 30-day license suspension or a fine of $4,950. The Oregon Liquor Control Commission announced … that it was temporarily increasing penalties for pot shops that sell marijuana to minors. Previously the penalty was a 10-day license suspension or a $1,650…
(proposed) Whereas, Article 4 of the Single Convention limits the use of drugs exclusively to medical or scientific purposes and imposes upon the parties thereto the general obligation to take legislative and administrative measures, inter alia, to criminalize, punish and deprive offenders of their liberty for serious offenses … Whereas, there can be no end…
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