Anyone undergoing the sessions would first be required to get a doctor’s clearance before participating, according to the plan. The program would be administered by the Oregon Health Authority. “Oregon, and Eugene in particular, appears ready to consider a proposal such as the Eckerts”, said Dr. Vip Short, a Board Member of the Eugene Center…
The war on drugs has failed and it’s time for New Zealand to take a fresh look at its policy, says former prime minister Helen Clark … “I think all the people who know about drug policy, who know what’s happening around the world, need to come to the [select] committee and spell it out…
The cannabis industry seems to have forgotten that Congress is king, and it is has allowed the [current] attorney general to wage his psychological war on legal marijuana. But Congress has made no real attempt to change the laws surrounding marijuana. Not even as more than 60 percent of the population now believes that weed…
As a former nurse, I never dreamed that our government would encroach to this degree on the relationship patients have with their medical providers. *while opiates are being restricted to patients in pain, the reportedly relatively benign and effective pain reliever Kratom is already supporting millions of Americans in pain, safely, and effectively. Will the…
*Donald Trump said, ”The only way to solve the drug problem is through toughness. When I was in China, I said ‘Mr. President, do you have a drug problem?’” [Xi Jinping replied] “No, no, no, we do not”. “I said, how … what do you attribute that to?” [Xi replied], “the death penalty”. … Trump…
“I am not going to tell Colorado or California or someone else that possession of marijuana is legal under United States law,” he said, answering student questions after the speech at Georgetown’s law school. But, he added, federal prosecutors “haven’t been working small marijuana cases before, they are not going to be working them now.”…
Lawyers for the Justice Department argued for a dismissal of the suit, arguing: “There is no fundamental right to use marijuana, for medical purposes or otherwise.” A judge for the Federal District Court in Sacramento considered similar arguments in a 2014 legal challenge, also spearheaded by members of the NORML Legal Committee, but ultimately rejected…
On February 1, 2018, portions of IB 2015, c.5, “Question 1 – An Act to Legalize Marijuana” took effect in Maine requiring employers to stop drug testing job applicants for marijuana use and also preventing employers from firing workers 21 years or older for the use of marijuana outside of the workplace. The portion of Question 1 dealing with…
Kratom is a plant indigenous to Southeast Asia that has been utilized for millennia to treat pain and illness, and improve mood, among other uses … The FDA recently announced it was classifying Kratom as an opioid, paving the way for criminalization … The FDA’s current decision to classify Kratom as an opioid is both…
Jo Meza, owner of Amazing Treatment, a rehab center in Salem, applauded the move. She has seen the damage caused by drug addiction in her 30 years in the field. “Jailing is not helping the problem,” Meza said. “All you’re doing is putting a Band-Aid on it and ripping it off when they get out…
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