“We are here to work together to move forward, not backwards, when it comes to our economy,” Kate Brown says. Brown [Oregon Governor], who addressed the room immediately after Williams, says she’s on board for enforcement efforts that aim to keep cannabis “out of the illegal market, and out of the hands of children.” She…
“The ability to meet the future needs of the federal correctional system…” is an interesting phrase to toss in there considering that Jeff Sessions has already has committed himself to restarting the drug war. The Bureau of Prisons has the stated goal of “increasing population levels in private contract facilities,” according to a memorandum…
…this young man first learned of a drug called MDMA, still legal at the time. Little did he realize that this would be the beginning of a lifelong quest to legitimize a drug in the eyes of a world in which it would soon become taboo. This journey would take over 35 years … Once…
LSD and psilocybin are not creations of the sixties. Psilocybin, the chemical in magic mushrooms, has been used in the Americas going back at least a thousand years, and possibly a lot more, as part of religious rituals. It may be that these chemicals are where we developed our religious impulse. Our sense that there…
“We’ve never had any interest in One East Broadway,” Chris Woods, chief executive for Terrapin Care Station in Boulder, Colo., said. A Colorado-based marijuana company will indeed open a pot retail store in downtown Eugene, but it won’t be at the location the company initially announced. Terrapin Care Station on Thursday said that on Tuesday…
A Colorado marijuana company said it plans to buy a building in the heart of downtown Eugene, across from Kesey Square, and open a pot shop there. The prominence of the building — at the crossroads of Willamette and Broadway — is exactly why Boulder, Colo.-based Terrapin Care Station wants the property, Peter Marcus, spokesman…
“It was because of me that organized crime was getting nasty. I was developing the tactics.” … “I used to risk my life doing the work because I used to believe I was doing good,” said Woods. “Now I realize everything I did only caused harm.” The former police officer was a pioneer in his…
As politicians, health authorities and first responders try to get a handle on Alberta’s opioid crisis, new figures released by the province show there was a significant uptick in the number of carfentanil deaths in 2017 from the year before. Just last week, the Alberta College of Physicians and Surgeons published a letter about the…
The Department of Justice (DOJ) alleges that the executives took part in a “nationwide conspiracy” to give healthcare providers kickbacks in exchange for the improper prescribing of Subsys—an opioid medication containing the highly addictive substance fentanyl, which is considered even more dangerous than painkillers like Vicodin. “As alleged, top executives of Insys Therapeutics, Inc. paid…
Accused of bribing doctors to prescribe a spray version of the opioid fentanyl intended to treat cancer pain, often to patients without cancer… Subsys is meant to provide pain relief to cancer patients who are going through particularly excruciating pain episodes. It’s reserved for these neediest of patients due to its potency and addictive qualities.…
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