He is looking to collect 365,880 voter signatures by April to get his California Psilocybin Legalization Initiative on the statewide ballot. Under the measure, possessing, growing, selling or transporting psychedelic psilocybin mushrooms would be legal for adults over the age of 21. Original Article (Newsweek):Will magic mushrooms be the next drug to become legal in…
“How do you comfort the dying? You could try giving them LSD. It’s not a facetious idea. In March 2014, Dr. Peter Gasser, a Swiss psychiatrist, published the results of using LSD alongside talk therapy for 12 patients with terminal illness. It was the first controlled trial of the drug in over 40 years. And…
At the time, I’d just started my first semester of college, and my only focus was getting back to class and finishing my degree. I agreed to the terms and walked out of the courtroom, happy to be free, confident the incident was at least mostly behind me. Two decades of constantly having to explain…
The commission will recommend the Department of Justice establish [more] drug courts in every federal district, and that individuals with substance use disorder who violate probation terms be diverted to a drug court… President Trump’s commission on combating the opioid epidemic plans to encourage the federal government to establish drug courts in every federal judicial…
The name change to honor the late author Ken Kesey took effect immediately… The name change comes two years after the city of Springfield recognized the author with a large mural of him painted on the side of a downtown building. In a related action, city councilors voted 5-2 to suspend indefinitely the request to…
Jeff Sessions wants to expand the supply of medical marijuana grown for research [He] said he wants to see “more competition” among medical marijuana growers who supply the plant to researchers, in his Wednesday morning testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee. Hatch [R-Utah] co-sponsored a piece of bipartisan legislation, the MEDS Act, which is designed…
“This is not a sentence I feel particularly good about,” Judge Douglas Harpool said. Authorities twice went onto White’s property before obtaining a search warrant, court records show. Original Article (USA Today):77-year-old [in United States] sentenced to 10 years for growing marijuanaArtwork Fair Use: Public Domain
In the Philippines, tens of thousands of protesters rallied in cities across the country Thursday [September 21, 2017), warning that President Rodrigo Duterte was on the brink of imposing a dictatorship. “This is the biggest rally so far of the youth and people, and the rallies are bound to get bigger. And the Duterte…
On a 7-2 vote, a citizen advisory committee on Monday (October 9th, 2017) endorsed changing the formal name of downtown Eugene’s Broadway Plaza to Kesey Square. Councilor Mike Clark and John Iglesias, chief executive of Eugene-based Northwest Community Credit Union, voted against the recommendation. The vote came near the end of a 90-minute meeting, the…
Saying it “feels like a question I had to ask”, the Duke acknowledged the “growing pressure” to change the regulation of drugs use in the UK. As he left, the Duke said: “You guys have seen it and it’s affected your lives in ways I can only imagine, so it’s very interesting to hear that…
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