Advocates said a regulated… industry would push out the black market and generate more than a half billion dollars a year for the state… it’s not quite worked out that way; there’s the cost of operating legally, a major reason. For most people out here, the opportunity to participate does not exist. The barriers to…
Patients like Thomas Hartle from Saskatchewan, Laurie Brooks from Vancouver, BC, and 2 anonymous patients… anxiously await the August 4th [2020] decision, urging the Minister of Health… to do the right thing… urge you to grant the s.56 exemption for these people as soon as possible… it would be a real shame if any of…
…after a few days of “microdosing,” she began to feel normal again… now that the issue is before the Board of Elections. Salvation [had] arrived in the form of a friend’s recommendation… speaking about the benefits of psilocybin mushrooms on mental health. This was not advice Melissa Lavasani, who holds two graduate degrees, normally would…
Pickard’s motion for a reduction of sentence was made in light… “An injustice of this magnitude had to be addressed somehow and today the Judge did so,” said… a good friend of Pickard… [who] along with a small group of “helpers” and countless supporters around the world, have been doing what they can for Pickard’s…
Appallingly, legal experts expect the court to give the Sacklers what they want … The July 30 [2020] deadline for filing claims in Purdue’s bankruptcy proceedings potentially implicates not just claims against Purdue, but also claims against the Sacklers. The Sacklers may yet again benefit from expansive powers that bankruptcy courts exercise in complex cases.…
The newspaper noted that Harris is “an anesthesiologist and top pharmaceutical donor recipient.” Harris [said] that he will use Congress’s control over D.C.’s budget to block the measure through a House Appropriations Committee amendment next week. Harris famously led congressional efforts to block Washington, D.C.’s local leaders from passing legislation to create a legal system of…
The agency did not respond to a request from C&EN asking about the timeline for the regulation, but the process is likely to take several more months, if not years. Under the proposed rule, potential growers of cannabis for research have to satisfy a list of public interest criteria spelled out in the US Controlled…
The Justice Department temporarily expanded the DEA’s power to collect information on protesters – and to share that intelligence with other law enforcement agencies and make arrests for non-drug related crimes… did not say what those agencies would do. In recent days, the Justice Department has deployed agents from the FBI, DEA, US Marshals, Bureau…
Highlighting that some psychedelics are already on their way to liberalization, [Member of Parliament] Paul Manly pointed to other North American jurisdictions that have decriminalized. Denver, Colorado, became the first U.S. city to decriminalize magic mushrooms [including decriminalizing home cultivation for personal, non-commodified use] following a narrow vote last May [2019]. Last year, Vancouver city Coun. Melissa…
A dozen or more startup companies are developing medicines from psilocybin, MDMA, ibogaine and LSD, all of which are illegal in the US, as well as from ketamine, a legal anesthetic with hallucinogenic properties… …[like] a former managing director at Goldman Sachs who is the founder of… yet another startup… “There’s a lot of strong…
