Some cannabis accelerators have shied away from working with businesses that have direct contact with weed, fearing federal crackdowns on legal markets. The Initiative will welcome them… wants to focus on making sure women CEOs keep a stake in cannabis—a disproportionately white and male industry. “This is absolutely businesses that are touching the plant,” Margolis…
About 500 brain experts from 29 countries are attending the group’s annual meeting, CNS 2018 (27th Annual Computational Neuroscience Meeting), which has been jointly organized by the Allen Institute for Brain Science and the University of Washington. [An] experiment took advantage of functional MRI brain scans to document how psilocybin changed brain activity. The psychedelic drug reduced the activity of…
*Hemby is the author of a new study on kratom published in the journal Addiction Biology, and his results suggest that the chief compound in the plant could offer therapeutic benefits. “It makes sense that this product [kratom] would mitigate the symptoms of opioid withdrawal or allow someone to transition from a higher dose to lower dose, or…
*Model of brain regions involved in moral cognition: the frontal pole (yellow), rostral anterior cingulate cortex (red), left superior temporal sulcus (green), and precuneus/ posterior cingulate cortex (blue). Effective connectivity within a hypothetical neural network involved in the implicit recognition of moral issues Members of Congress are not happy with Sessions’ obstruction of the licensing…
The positive effects were not only structural, but functional – electrophysiological recordings found that the frequency and strength of neural currents were increased for many hours after the psychedelic compounds had been removed. Patients who suffer from depression and post-traumatic-stress-disorder tend to have impaired neurogenesis and neuroplasticity – their brain cells grow more slowly and…
“There are people with severe arthritis who have mobility issues that are using this medicine. You’re going to expect them to go trudge out outside in [cold, rainy weather] to take their prescription?” “Vaping being a part of this [propposed ban]? It is kind of hard not to use the word ridiculous when it comes…
The Senate needs to support the amendments to SITSA and SCREEN to exclude natural botanical plants and herbs. Two of those bills, the SITSA Act (Stop the Importation and Trafficking of Synthetic Analogues Act of 2017), and the SCREEN Act (Stop Counterfeit Drugs by Regulating and Enhancing Enforcement Now) both attempt to stop deadly synthetic…
[Sheri Eckert says] “The initiative isn’t just for people who are struggling with depression and anxiety, and things like that. If you’re over 21 and you’re medically cleared, and simply want to explore your own mind and your own consciousness through these kinds of services, you can do it under this measure … we really want…
She realized she was on the wrong path while working in a prosecutor’s office that was charging a suspect who had turned to heroin to blot out childhood memories of being raped by her father and brothers. When Watts asked the prosecutor what sort of life the defendant could look forward to in jail, he…
If we truly absorb this new story, we will have to change a lot more than the drug war. We will have to change ourselves … we have been told a story about addiction by our teachers and by our governments. This story is so deeply ingrained in our minds that we take it for granted.…
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