“[It’s] part of what’s being called the “holistic plant movement”. “Powerful yet gentle holistic plant medicines are the genuine article. They heal people, and they save lives.” [and] “This is what we’ve been searching for, and what’s desperately needed to attack the modern-day addiction epidemic head-on. Our plant medicine treatments work like no other…
1. Ensure safer streets … 2. Reduce the spread of disease … 3. Improve access to emergency services … 4. Can reduce crime … 5. Help people integrate into the legitimate economy … 6. Save lives. Opponents of DCRs assert that we should focus on approaches of drug-free recovery and rehabilitation, rather than allowing drug use. While successful approaches for some…
“There’s lots of relapses because 12-step treatment doesn’t get to the root of sexual, racial, class trauma or veteran’s trauma,” Harris said. Mark Harris, Lane’s Coordinator for Substance Abuse Prevention and an experienced addiction counselor, saw limitations within the 12-step programs that are a requirement for most drug courts … A 2011 study by Shannon…
But how can you tell if psilocybin might help someone? The way you speak may reveal whether a psychedelic… could help treat depression or anxiety. Robin Carhart-Harris and his team at Imperial College London have been testing psilocybin – a hallucinogen found in magic mushrooms – in people with treatment-resistant depression. Their pilot study found…
[Due to the Controlled Substances Act of 1970] … absence of clinical evidence soon became a compounded issue. When there’s no research, attention tends to wane. Not only do clinical trials stop, but meta-analyses and trial reviews cease too. As a result, physician awareness and interest in exploring novel psychedelic therapies dwindles. “But when you…
“Now that probably millions of people in the United States are using it, and many of them are reporting that they’re getting off of opiates using kratom, it could create a public health disaster to remove that tool from our arsenal at a time when we have what’s being described as an opioid epidemic,” Marc…
*the following is ONLY an exerpt, please visit this link for the full article*above image is a compound of ten tetrahedra (geometric shape) People are dying because of ignorance. They are dying because unremitting propaganda is denying them essential safety information. They are dying because legislators and the media are censoring the science, and are ruthlessly…
“But the compounds in kratom aren’t particularly potent opioids like prescription opioids, morphine or fentanyl. So we started investigating its traditional use from Malaysia where people used it as an opium replacement or to wean themselves off of opium–a different type of methadone or Suboxone (buprenorphine/naloxone) maintenance therapy,” says McCurdy. (McCurdy was able to secure…
I asked their [my classes’] indulgence for a historical detour. “Hierarchical societies that are deeply unequal and exploitive,” I pointed at the image, “force people to release stress through play. In Ancient Greece, the cult of Dionysus held rituals where they drank, took psychedelics and danced on mountains. When Rome absorbed Greece, Dionysus was renamed…
*from the anti-plant propaganda movie, Reefer Madness. Currently legal in the United States, millions of Americans have safely used kratom for therapeutic… purposes. In recent years, federal agencies which have no regard for individual liberty like the Drug Enforcement Administration and the Food and Drug Administration have set their sights on kratom. Proponents of safe…
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