Phil Knight is frustrated with… expansive efforts to legalize drugs beyond marijuana… Knight has ignored repeated requests from Rolling Stone to discuss his donations. Nike has done likewise. “One of the political cartoons after our legislative session had a person snorting cocaine out of a mountain of white,” Knight said. Original Article (Herald and News…
Neither CVS nor Walgreens is admitting wrongdoing… and a lawyer said Walmart is in discussions for a deal. CVS Health and Walgreen Co. announced agreements in principle Wednesday [Nov. 2, 2022] to pay about $5 billion each to settle lawsuits nationwide over the toll of opioids… the proposed pacts bring a nationwide tally of finalized…
While much of the future of psilocybin services in Oregon remains a mystery, one Eugene-based group has begun envisioning a dream and assembling a plan. Over the summer, Subtle Wind’s facilitator training program curriculum was approved by the Oregon Health Authority, and they are awaiting approval from the state’s Higher Education Coordinating Committee. Original Article…
Since both Wunderground and Puff Coffee are based in Seattle, WA and Portland, OR respectively… both cities have decriminalized entheogens (aka psychedelics)… the reason they feel confident in this shroom experiment… a psilocybin-infused coffee made in collaboration with Puff Coffee, the new coffee venture of Stumptown Coffee… “As a country, we witnessed OxyContin being approved…
Robin Feldman, an expert on pharmaceutical intellectual property at the University of California Hastings College of Law… …said the conflict over psychedelics reflects the larger problems of a patent system that saddles Americans with some of the highest prescription drug prices in the world. “It’s not pretty when you look under the hood,” she said.…
Death from LSD is extremely rare but selling large amounts of the drug to a minor carries a heightened risk, Assistant U.S. Attorney Jeffrey Sweet said. A Eugene man who sold liquid LSD that ended up in the hands of a 13-year-old boy who died after using the drug was sentenced… to three years in…
Springfield officials expressed support for continuing to explore the possibility of a drug treatment court, but Mayor Sean VanGordon said the city is “a long way from the finish line.” The city is prepared to apply for funding to start a drug treatment court as soon as the federal funding window opens, said Presiding Municipal…
The Eugene Police Department seized an estimated 18 pounds of suspected fentanyl… in what the department says is the largest fentanyl seizure in its history. The pills were a mixture of blue- and rainbow-colored, according to photos of the seized drugs from EPD. The seizure comes five months after EPD reported the department’s previous largest…
As part of the new contract, the city and White Bird are doing a reset to make sure responsibilities are clearly laid out, Police Chief Chris Skinner said. While CAHOOTS is a good model and garners national attention for a reason, that same success has led to some challenges, Weinzetl said, namely a bottleneck in…
The competition for patents is well under way… each company has interpreted the decision as a win, with Freedom to Operate saying the decision limits Compass Pathways’ “ownership [to] . . . the exact shape of their form of psilocybin, and not others,” while Compass Pathways does not “see how avoiding infringing on their patents…
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