The mother of a boy with severe epilepsy has called for a meeting with the home and health secretaries to talk about making medical cannabis legal for children who have similar conditions to her son. Charlotte Caldwell said it was “absolutely horrific” and “cruel” that 12-year-old Billy had been refused cannabis oil after Home Office…
Like a barrier between forlorn lovers, the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (TBB) just won’t let the two substances unite [for now]. Province Brands [of Canada] is developing what could very well be the first legal beer brewed from cannabis. They filed a patent for the first beers brewed from the cannabis…
They’ve raised roughly $20 million for their company from some extremely savvy investors. George Goldsmith and Katya Malievskaia are a married couple whose startup – Compass Pathways – will soon launch the largest triple-blind clinical trial ever of a psychedelic drug. The drug is psilocybin, which is the active ingredient in psychedelic mushrooms. And the…
If this bill passes, Sessions would have unchecked power to ban drugs [and plants] and apply harsh penalties at his whim, with no oversight and no basis in health or science. The Stop Importation and Trafficking of Synthetic Analogues (SITSA) Act is misguided legislation that would give Sessions’ Justice Department broad new powers to ban…
The House bill also gives Congress 180 days to write and pass legislation reversing a temporary scheduling order, but says nothing about reversing a permanent scheduling order [by Jeff Sessions]. Why the House would tie its own hands in a matter like this is mystifying … SITSA establishes a statutory maximum of 10 years in…
Law enforcement officials made it clear that the targeting of low-level sales will end. To add icing to the cake, the charges against all 47 people arrested in the first five months of 2018 will be dismissed. The 47 people who were arrested so far in 2018 were approached by undercover officers posing as buyers.…
Over the last several days, I have been truly humbled by the outpouring of support and generosity by the defenders of kratom. The truth is on our side – kratom is safe, not highly addictive, and helps millions of people live a happier life. Last week, we asked you to help us achieve our goal…
How did a small nonprofit, with $200 in its bank account just a few years prior, grow to be so influential, so quickly? It may have had the DEA to thank for its growth. AKA’s campaign quickly gained traction when the DEA proposed to schedule the drug. Ash hired lobbyists, scientists, and a legal team. AKA’s success in confronting the…
May 16, the Louisiana House unanimously approved a resolution from state Rep. Frank Hoffmann directing the department to study the plant and products containing kratom. locally, it’s only a minor issue on health officials’ radar — while they may be skeptical of the science of its medicinal use, its impact isn’t as dire as federal warnings suggest. Previous…
Mushrooms contain many different molecules. Psilocybin [ingested, converts to psilocin]… the active chemical that is responsible for much of –but not all of–the psychoactivity in magic mushrooms. However, in addition to psilocybin, magic mushrooms also comprise many other psychoactive molecules. For example, the following tryptamine molecules are present in various types of mushrooms: [3-(2-trimethylaminoethyl)-1H-indol-4-yl] dihydrogen…
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