Biography/Memoir

A group in Oregon wants to make drug possession a crime again, having unveiled two versions of a would-be ballot initiative that would undo key provisions of Measure 110, the 2020 voter-approved measure that decriminalized simple possession of all drugs… filed ballot initiatives to prohibit hard drug use in public places and has $700,000 lined…

Eris Nyx, one of the store’s managers, looked on from the cash point. She runs the shop with Jeremy Kalicum, who was in the back office weighing and packaging cocaine, heroin and methamphetamine. “The fact that we’re not in jail is unbelievable,” said Eris. “I think about that every day.” Their shop was the culmination…

Psychedelics companies aren’t living up to the hype, and are starting to consolidate as a flood of money into companies seeking to win regulatory approval of drugs like LSD, psilocybin and ayahuasca dries up… the disconnect between… federal… lobbying visions and reality in psychedelics has once-high-flying companies now on the verge of failing to make…

…patents aren’t the only type of Intellectual Property… trade secrets… trademarks… MAPS PBC [Public Benefit Corporation] seeks to register the trademark for use in the following realms… “Pharmaceutical preparations; Psychotherapeutic preparations; Pharmaceutical preparations for the treatment and management of psychiatric, psychological, and neurological disorders; Therapeutic agents for treating and managing PTSD, eating disorders, postpartum depression,…