In the first week after the law took effect, police arrested 227 people for drug possession. In comparison, police only made an average of about 50 arrests a week for drug possession after the passage of Ballot Measure 110, which decriminalized low-level drug possession in 2021. …the state has little information about how effective the…
A direct comparison between the experimental psychedelic drug psilocybin and a standard SSRI antidepressant shows similar improvement of depressive symptoms, but that psilocybin offers additional longer-term benefits… Lead researcher Mr. Tommaso Barba (Ph.D. candidate from Imperial College, London) said, “This is the first work to compare the long-term effects of these two drugs in the…
The U.S. Department of Justice announced that the chief executive officer of psilocybin company Minerco Inc. (OTC: MINE), Julius Jenge was arrested… The former CEO was fleeing a Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) investigation into the stock fraud allegations around the penny stock company Minerco… In 2021, the company began touting its psilocybin business and Minerco…
Denver Shroom Fest’s founders say the decriminalization has led to safer access for all users. As lovers of magic mushrooms gather to celebrate recreational use… [&] a medcinal microdose clinic… it’s like joining the Costco of magic mushrooms… then you get measured dose medicines. Original Article (CBS News):As psychedelic mushrooms-lovers enjoy first Denver Shroom Fest,…
The recreational and medicinal markets are far more intertwined than many are aware. As so often happens… we have seen this phenomenon with cannabis and opioids, and it now appears to be happening with psychedelics. A recent survey found that less than 34 per cent of Canadians who reported using psychedelics did so to self-medicate…
In the mid-range of estimates, anywhere from 56% to 62% of Americans currently being treated for depression could be eligible to try psilocybin. The number could even grow higher if people currently untreated for their depression decide they would like to try psilocybin, the investigators noted. Original Article (Newsweek):Over 5 million Americans could benefit if psilocybin…
“I’m not going to go smoke pot and hang out on my couch for the next 20 years,” he said in an interview, criticizing the agency for failing to grasp the drug’s potential to relieve suffering. Still, it has been a brutally rough stretch for Doblin and MAPS, which over decades have shepherded an illegal…
The study found that cannabis and psychedelics remain increasingly popular, with rates of use at “historically high levels in 2023,” the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) said. “In contrast, past-year use of cigarettes remained at historically low levels in both adult groups,” it said. “Past-month and daily alcohol use continued a decade-long decline among…
It claims to be the first publicly owned service center in the U.S., with penny-priced stock that investors can buy if they’d like to cash in on the shroom boom… cannabis was a ripe market for stock schemes back then, says Vince Sliwoski, a Portland lawyer who advises cannabis and psilocybin firms. It was the…
Narrowly tailoring deflection offerings to just possession charges – not the low-level public disorder crimes that often accompany drug use – means counties “are going to miss 98% of what’s really bugging everyone,’ said Lisa Daugaard, a Seattle attorney and key architect of the LEAD model… “LEAD is intended to be a public safety, public…
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