In Oregon, possession of psilocybin is a misdemeanor offense, downgraded from a felony last year. “Psilocybin addresses huge issues such as depression and addiction,” Tom Eckert said then. “Psilocybin works for smoking cessation better than any other. This is a revolutionary thing. We have to be careful with it. We don’t want to screw it up.”…
Shall potent plant legalization merely become?… Socialism for the rich, capitalism for the poor? Privatizing profits and socializing losses? “Legalization without amnesty is oppressive monopolization.” -Campaign for Cannabis Amnesty LINK [Canadian President Justin] Trudeau has himself admitted to smoking marijuana as a sitting MP, and last year admitted that family resources and connections helped his…
McConnell already successfully inserted more limited hemp language to the last version of the Farm Bill, enacted in 2014, which shields state industrial hemp research programs from federal interference but does not entirely legalize the crop in the way the new proposal would. “It’s a crock,” Schumer said, referring to current federal law. “It makes…
A May 2017 public opinion poll conducted by The Globe and Mail and Nanos Research found that 62 per cent of Canadians support, or somewhat support, the idea of issuing pardons to those with criminal records for possession. The signatures will support a lobbying campaign to get the Senate to add an amendment to Bill…
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…
All four experts delivered the same basic message: Rather than outlawing kratom or treating it similarly to narcotics such as heroin and cocaine, the FDA and other agencies in the federal government should regulate it to guarantee its quality, purity and consistency — and if they don’t, a black market will develop that would likely…
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…
*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…
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…
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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