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…
It appears that none of the 25 applications to grow marijuana for purposes of medical research have gone anywhere. (The DEA won’t comment on this or release the names of the applicants.) … A remarkable 94 percent [of Americans] support medical use. “And businesses outside of the country are already making billions of dollars,” Doblin…
Unfortunately, the FDA is trying to pull a fast one on Americans, with no regard for the truth of their claims or the potential consequences of a ban on kratom … Simply put, the report makes clear that the FDA is being incredibly dishonest with the public in a blatant effort to demonize kratom. It’s…
“He’ll say, ‘You know the Chinese and Filipinos don’t have a drug problem. They just kill them.’ ” President Trump has long expressed admiration for how Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has encouraged the extrajudicial murder of anyone suspected of dealing drugs. An estimated 12,000 people have been killed by police and vigilantes in the Philippines…
Are psychedelic users happier than the rest of us? According to a recent study in the Journal of Psychopharmacology, the answer is yes. Breaking harmful neural patterns and allowing the brain to make new connections is one of the mechanisms by which psychedelics improve mental health … The pharmaceutical therapies currently used in the…
The (2016) UNGASS (Special Session of the General Assembly UNGASS 2016) process [was] been marred by efforts to shut down dissenting voices and by the use of Kafkaesque procedures to make criticism of the current approach invisible. The UNGASS process has been marred by secret negotiations and by twisting processes in order to maintain…
The core problem is that drug use is always stored in the criminal record. In a situation where a drug user does not have to worry about punishment or a criminal record, it is much easier to provide diverse social and health care support and treatment. The use of drugs in with health professionals would…
Is the government in bed with big pharma? Six attempts to talk to a live person at the FDA were unsuccessful. Lindsay Meyer, spokesperson for the FDA, denied it, emailing us a statement saying there is no collusion … Forty-seven years ago, the authorities went to war on a plant. It was a mistake. This…
*Projected US Federal Government Debt through 2080 *Current Oregon Debt is over 35 Billion The program’s funding situation, meanwhile, appears stable for now. The program’s future appears safe. A bit worrisome, however, is the Oregon Legislature’s decision last year to reclassify possession of drugs such as heroin and methamphetamine from a felony to a…
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