Sassafras (Sassafras albidum) is a tree with a long history in North American culture. Once introduced to the European colonists, sassafras was cultivated for use in tea, soap, root beer and oil. Grown primarily for its bark and roots, sassafras has also been planted for its beautiful fall foliage, turning bright orange, red and pink…
Matthew Johnson, a psychiatry and behavioral sciences professor at John Hopkins University who’s conducted extensive research on psilocybin, says he and his colleagues pay between $7,000 and $10,000 per gram. The typical street price for magic mushrooms is $35 per eighth of an ounce, so $10 per gram. LINK That high cost is due in part…
“Maybe it’s time to take a sober, careful, scientific look at these medicines,” Dr. Bossis said, “to revisit, are they helpful? Are they safe? Are they effective?” With more clinical trials on the horizon, researchers hope to open more minds about the potential of psychedelic drugs, one trip at a time. Dinah Bazer beat ovarian…
After many years of dormancy, research and public interest in psychedelics has expanded. Once-obscure topics, such as ayahuasca, now receive major media coverage in stories claiming psychological benefits, and the public routinely hears about MDMA and other substances… The need for training of mental health professionals in various competency areas related to psychedelics is increasingly…
The cannabis industry seems to have forgotten that Congress is king, and it is has allowed the [current] attorney general to wage his psychological war on legal marijuana. But Congress has made no real attempt to change the laws surrounding marijuana. Not even as more than 60 percent of the population now believes that weed…
The limited scientific data on the short-term effects of kratom in humans contrasts with the dire warnings of the DEA and FDA and indicates that no causal relationship has been established between kratom consumption and fatalities or psychosis.[6,7] Kratom is not a classical opioid; however, studies in rodents indicate that alkaloids in kratom bind to…
In May 2013, one of the UK’s leading health journals reported explosive findings about the effectiveness of opioids in the treatment of long-term pain. The BMJ revealed that in a review of randomised trials involving thousands of people suffering from the two most common types of chronic pain — lower back pain and osteoarthritis —…
“The facility that my farmer used to produce his Kratom is FDA compliant and GMP, General good manufacturing practices.” “It is actually taken off the tree and it is hung out to dry and it is milled through they pulled out the stemming and the veining and they just make it into a flower-like consistency,”…
As a former nurse, I never dreamed that our government would encroach to this degree on the relationship patients have with their medical providers. *while opiates are being restricted to patients in pain, the reportedly relatively benign and effective pain reliever Kratom is already supporting millions of Americans in pain, safely, and effectively. Will the…
About 60 percent of the nation’s fatal opioid overdoses occur among patients who have legitimate prescriptions for their medications. In states where medical marijuana is legal, however, a legitimate opiate user is able to significantly decrease his or her dosage, making overdose less likely Researchers looked at medical marijuana laws and death certificate data in…
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