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Cannabis Amnesty

Righting this historical wrong should not merely be an afterthought. LINK The present government has indicated that it is open to blanket pardons for cannabis-possession offences in the future, but the people who have already been harmed by prohibition will continue to suffer until amnesty legislation is passed. No Canadian should be burdened with a criminal record…

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American Herbal Products Association backs “New Dietary Ingredient” filing for kratom, experts question FDA enforcement

FDA regulation of kratom as an NDI [new dietary ingredient] is necessary to avoid untenable state regulations, says AHPA (American Herbal Products Association] chief Michael McGuffin… …adding the trade group’s support to kratom experts’ push to keep the herbal ingredient available. Experts also say salmonella issues currently linked to kratom could be an indirect result…

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Will psychedelics go corporate like cannabis?

*The closer you were to the recycling bin, the better your odds. This is what privilege looks like. Did you notice how the only ones who complained about fairness were in the back of the room? …for many of the researchers and psychotherapists who pioneered the early psychedelic treatments of the 1960s, it signaled something…

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Canada’s Liberal party considers decriminalization of all illicit drugs

But when it comes to decriminalisation, said Erskine-Smith, “we’re not talking removing the criminal sanction for sale, we’re not talking removing the criminal sanction for production, as we did with cannabis.” Should the Liberals approve their resolution this week, decriminalisation would be backed by two of Canada’s three major parties. But even so, there is…

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Seminole council… on kratom sales

While neither kava nor kratom have been clinically tested or approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, they’ve been consumed for centuries by the cultures that discovered them — and they’re rapidly gaining popularity in the Tampa Bay area. Both are offered in dozens of bars, tobacco and electronic-cigarette shops and lounges throughout Pinellas…

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Chuck Schumer [Senate Minority Leader] wants to decriminalize marijuana. It’s a big change for Democrats

On Friday, April 20th, 2018 on the unofficial marijuana holiday known as 4.20, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer announced a plan to decriminalize marijuana at the federal level. The New York Democrat’s support gives the policy a powerful voice as opinions on the substance become more favorable both with voters and within the ranks of…

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Attn Team

*this essentially applies to psilocybin mushrooms, as well.In other words, all compassionate, sane, honest Americans should call cannabis prohibition and false classification and official lies and treasonous offenses what they are, acts of criminal fraud, state condoned terrorism, treason and hideous injustice. We should also be calling on every Attorney General and the Joint Chiefs…

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