“This law guarantees coca for life, this is our struggle.” The new law expands the country’s authorized coca plantation zones to 22,000 hectares (55,000 acres) from the previous 12,000 hectares. The coca plant has many traditional uses in the Andes, including as a remedy for altitude sickness. When chewed, its leaves also provide mild stimulation…
“Even federal authorities, longtime skeptics of the merits of marijuana legalization, are starting to come around to the findings. “We had predicted based on the changes in legalization, culture in the U.S. as well as decreasing perceptions among teenagers that marijuana was harmful [and] that [accessibility and use] would go up,” Nora Volkow, director of…
“The US Drug Enforcement Agency has not yet documented one overdose fatality stemming from the drug itself… at least 20 marijuana-related drug raids since 2010 that have ended in at least one death… suspects have been killed during these raids for as little as 0.2 grams of marijuana.” Drug raids targeting marijuana have been a…
The nationwide survey of 1,323 voters found that five out of seven voters (71%) — including majorities of Republicans, Democrats, independents, and every age group polled — oppose the government enforcing federal prohibition laws in states that have made marijuana legal for medical or adult use. 93% now support allowing marijuana for medical use and…
Oregon Gov. Kate Brown says she wants Oregonians left alone to “grow these jobs”. In Oregon alone, that’s roughly 12,500 jobs, said economist Beau Whitney of Portland, adding that he is making a conservative estimate. Oregon’s attorney general said she would be duty-bound to fight to protect the state’s marijuana industry… She noted that citizens…
Harmful drug use is certainly a public health problem, but in many countries, drug control policies lean too heavily towards limiting access to medicines for which patients have a legitimate and urgent need. Drug policy can undermine research that could uncover the medical value of many substances. For example, cannabis and related compounds known as…
“Our state’s efforts to regulate the sale of marijuana are succeeding…. “A few years ago, the illegal trafficking of marijuana lined the pockets of criminals everywhere. Now, in our state, illegal trafficking activity is being displaced by a closely regulated marijuana industry that pays hundreds of millions of dollars in taxes. This frees up significant…
“I find that in the contemporary Swedish context it would, in many cases, be more stigmatizing and have more negative social implications to come out of the closet as a psychedelic user than as a homosexual or bisexual.” One cannot talk about psychedelics or cannabis as separate from other drugs. All illegal drugs are bundled…
Ibogaine is to the brain what an anti-virus is to computers. It cuts off dependency and cleans past life traumas and learned behavior to heal the emotional basis of addiction as well as treat emotional disorders. The medicine is known to be effective on a wide range of drugs such as opiates, alcohol, marijuana and…
“Bolivia and Ecuador have signed an agreement to export legal coca products through the Ecuadorian market. The agreement was signed in La Paz by the countries’ respective foreign ministers, David Choquehuanca of Bolivia and Guillaume Long of Ecuador. Minister Choquehuanca gave a speech in which he said Ecuador will be the first country to export…
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