“We’re already dealing with a pretty challenging market environment. And now the IRS is going to be looking for ways to find more tax revenue,” [says Peterson]. So, they created the 280E tax provision, which stipulates that no expenses related to drug trafficking can be written off as legitimate “business expenses.” But now, almost forty…
[For-profit corporations planning on profiting through legal manipulations of false wars]. The overarching context… comes through clearly: we’re in an ‘arms race’ between the rapidly-expanding psychedelic pharmaceutical start-up sector that seeks a monopoly through federal regulatory approval, on the one part, and the citizenry who seek immediate equitable access for all in a manner analogous…
Magic mushrooms can help people… [yet] under the proposed Oregon law… people would still not be allowed to… even consume them at home. …popular psychedelics are not addictive in the sense that they do not create any physical dependency the way opioids, nicotine, and alcohol can and they themselves are generally not fatal when used safely…
Initiative Measure No. 81 : Entheogenic Plant and Fungus Policy Act of 2020. Make the investigation and arrest of adults for non-commercial planting, cultivating, purchasing, transporting, distributing, possessing, and/or engaging in practices with entheogenic plants and fungi… among the Metropolitan Police Department’s lowest law enforcement priorities… the psychedelics reform movement has spread rapidly across the…
Meanwhile, DEA could also become involved in a separate U.S. Supreme Court case challenging its marijuana scheduling actions. The plaintiffs make a second legal argument that’s more nuanced. They say that DEA’s insistence that cannabis must be placed in either Schedule I or Schedule II is unconstitutional because it “delegates legislative power twice: first to…
Measure 109 depends on federal cooperation because the therapy will remain illegal on the federal level. The measure would not mean psilocybin would be available in stores or to take home. Measure 109. The Oregon Psychiatric Physicians Association argues that the measure is unsafe and makes misleading promises to people struggling with mental illness. A…
The measure does set up a two-year development period that will cost a small sum [the financial impact during the two-year development period, which runs through December of 2022, is estimated to be $7.0 million General Fund to begin activities required under the Act according to the Department of Administrative Services] before the system of…
Their original initiative, IP-12, provided for sweeping penalty reduction and decriminalization; their new initiative [IP-34, now Measure 109]… explicitly criminalizes psilocybin [mushroom] possession outside a therapy center Measure 110 would make possession of psilocybin [not mushrooms] no longer a criminal act. Original Article (Leafly):Election 2020: Oregon psilocybin and drug decriminalization initiatives guideArtwork Fair Use: Thomas…
There’s a reason Initiative 65 has found such widespread support: It was crafted with Missippians in mind. The creators of MM2020 sought to design a conservative program that Mississippians could rally behind. The politicians’ Alternative 65A is rife with vague language and a lack of specifics. It offers no framework for providers, or even a…
Hartle was one of four terminally ill Canadians who was granted a Section 56 exemption to the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act by federal health minister Patty Hajdu last month. Since then, the organization reports that two more exemptions have been granted… Dr. Tobin applied for his own exemption… and has yet to receive a response. [Section…
