“This is political persecution. Every day that I am here is an injustice,” she said, dressed for the simmering 93-degree heat in what is now a kind of uniform: beige sandals, black shorts that stop modestly above the knee and a black-and-white T-shirt. When a Philippine senator called for an investigation into President Rodrigo Duterte’s…
A total of 29 states including New York, as well as the District of Columbia, Guam and Puerto Rico, have medical cannabis programs, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures. Eight states and D.C. have passed laws legalizing pot recreationally, though the Drug Enforcement Administration still classifies it next to heroin as a Schedule…
A growing body of research (acknowledged by the National Institute on Drug Abuse) has shown that opiate deaths and overdoses actually decrease in states with medical marijuana laws on the books. …citing of a “historic drug epidemic” to justify a crackdown on medical marijuana is at odds with what researchers know about current drug use…
“I am going to be working with a coalition of Republicans and Democrats, progressives and libertarians, liberals, and conservatives…” Stone said at the Cannabis World Congress and Business Expo, according to Business Insider. “It’s our intention to identify, reach, and mobilize millions of pro-cannabis voters to urge the president to keep his word,” Stone…
If the federal decision to classify these substances as having no medical value was premature, then understanding the benefits (and dangers) of psychedelics in a rigorous and empirical way has been hindered by bureaucracy and authorities policing research laboratories. Strassman likewise said he’d like to see psychedelic substances rescheduled, though he realizes researchers are caught…
“Contact has been made,” says Arenberg. “We’ve found life.” After all, it took special instruments to prove that radio waves and bacteria are real.” “People have been trying to contact aliens for a while now. Egon Arenberg, a web marketer from South Florida, seems an unlikely guy to have nailed it. But he’s one of…
“… [the] School District is bringing in a neuroscientist to talk to health classes about the impacts of marijuana on brain development. “…[It] is developing a science-based marijuana education program that takes a more holistic approach”. -Section chief for environmental epidemiology and toxicology “Marijuana is unique, because … this is a substance where you…
Brian Paddick worked for London’s Metropolitan Police from 1976 to 2007 and acted as police spokesman following the terrorist attacks on the city in 2005. Research shows that 9% of people who use cannabis in their lifetime find themselves addicted to it at some point, compared to 15% who become addicted to alcohol and 32%…
I have never taken drugs other than alcohol, nicotine, caffeine and medicinal drugs. Of these, I have for many years not taken the two former. I think it is inimical to a good life to be dependent for pleasure and personal fulfilment on substances which gloss or distort reality and interfere with rationality; and yet…
She plans to give 20 participants low doses of LSD or a placebo, and scanning their brains while they perform a range of cognitive tasks. Before it was made illegal in 1968, Ms Feilding would take LSD to boost her creativity, and even found that her performace in the ancient Chinese game of Go, improved.…
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