The Bill is unhinged from the reality of the… space, but in the most technical sense, it does meet its mandate from the court,” Lawrie (an attorney) said. In the meantime, the penalties and limits were both harsh and arbitrary. “None of the restrictions on dealing and cultivation apply to persons who are permitted or…
The Bill is unhinged from the reality of the… space, but in the most technical sense, it does meet its mandate from the court,” Lawrie (an attorney) said. In the meantime, the penalties and limits were both harsh and arbitrary. “None of the restrictions on dealing and cultivation apply to persons who are permitted or…
The group emphasized that it’s concerned about the potential for commercial exploitation of psychedelics, and so this measure was designed to promote community-based treatment… will cost participants next to nothing. “People have been healing from plant-based group ceremonies for centuries,” he said. “The solution we’re offering the city is to bring the ancient wisdom and…
In theory, home-brew [molecules] could deprive traffickers in countries such as Afghanistan and Colombia of their main source of revenue – money that fuels corruption and other criminal activities, destabilises governments and even funds terrorism. …high-yielding strain… in theory anyone who got hold of it could make… [health oriented, botanically-inspired molecules] in their kitchen using…
Perhaps it’s not so much about which is better, but about looking critically at how they might be different. And that begins by not conflating plants and fungi with the derivatives that come from them. Some researchers, such as Sidarta Ribeiro, Director of the Brain Institute at Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, have…
One often overlooked side effect of the war on drugs is the role of the U.S. Attorney General, the nation’s top law enforcement official, as the country’s chief drug policymaker… [who] dictates which drugs can be produced, researched, prescribed, and consumed. However, serving as Attorney General or DEA Administrator requires no training in science, medicine,…
[One of many proposals include, substitute the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) as the agency responsible for classifying drugs pursuant to the Controlled Substance Act (CSA).] As calls to divest, defund and abolish local police agencies echo across the U.S., it is also time to elevate those calls to…
On psychedelics, humanism appears to outdo itself: It overcomes its anthropocentrism and nurtures a general love of sentient beings… the magnanimity of psychedelic humanism [may]… do no harm to our exceptional place in the biological world: We will be the one and only animal that cares about all other animals and maybe even plants. A…
Sometimes, when we’re upset, we get lost in the emotion, and mushrooms can help you take a step back and say, “Oh, this is the situation. This is how I’m feeling about it. What can I do about it right now? Am I looking at things in all different perspectives instead of just caught in…
Advocates said a regulated… industry would push out the black market and generate more than a half billion dollars a year for the state… it’s not quite worked out that way; there’s the cost of operating legally, a major reason. For most people out here, the opportunity to participate does not exist. The barriers to…
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