“We saw, sadly, that in every region, in every age group of adults, in both men and women, overdoses from opioids are increasing,” [the CDC says] In just one year, overdoses from opioids jumped by about 30 percent, according to a report released Tuesday (Mar. 6th, 2018) by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.…
“As a former federal agent and law enforcement officer, I think legalizing cannabis would really free up the criminal justice system in terms of incarceration space, in terms of time and energy of first responders, and it would allow law enforcement officers to focus on what’s really important,” Wolf said. [He] left the State Department…
“People from organized religions were persecuting me for my belief in cannabis as sacrament. Demanding their secular members invade temples where believers obtain sacrament and learn the ways of peace, these persecutors relentlessly attacked with words of hatred and violence.” — from the sixth of “The Nine Epiphanies. This is a confederation of eight… churches…
Human rights activists and freed inmates said drug offenders were still being forced to do factory work, as has been the practice under the re-education through labor system, colloquially known as ‘laojiao’. Many of China’s re-education through labor camps, instead of being abolished in line with a ruling Communist Party announcement this month, are being…
San Jose, Mar 2 (Prensa Latina) The director of the Costa Rican Drug Institute (ICD), Guillermo Araya, has warned today about the use of a plant called ”peyote”, mescaline or ”big chief” as hallucinogen in concerts and recreational relaxation activities. The report of the entity states that ‘peyote produces its effects initially interrupting the interaction…
Soon after Duterte was elected, dead bodies mummified in packaging tape and signed with a warning, “Drug addict. Don’t be like me,” turned up in ditches and dark corners. According to a statement released… by the Philippine Department of Finance, the [Chinese] funds will be equally divided between the Department of Health (DOH) for the…
“I feel that… we generally tend to label and marginalise mental illness instead of seeing it as a rather normal reaction to extreme and abnormal circumstances,” Atasoy added in his interview with PsyPost. A study published in Scientific Reports says that lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) may be capable of “harmonizing” your brain and helping people recover from…
The FDA has clearly intentionally mischaracterized kratom using these unverified reports as the basis to recommend the effective ban on consumer access to kratom by placing kratom in Schedule I of the CSA. -Jane Babin, Ph.D., Esq. University of San Diego School of Law, J.D. Purdue University, Ph.D., Molecular Biology The FDA recommendation for the…
2017 research from the University of Connecticut and Georgia State University that found, based on the analysis of sales data collected by Nielsen retail scanners between 2006 and 2015, that monthly alcohol sales fell an average of 13 per cent in states that had legalized medical marijuana. Counter-intuitive as it sounds, [the current attorney generals’]…
“There’s no reason that both shouldn’t be legalized because psilocybin or magic mushrooms are just as safe as cannabis … “We could apply lessons from cannabis legalization and apply them to psilocybin legalization,” -Neuroscientist Michele Ross The group calls itself Colorado for Psilocybin after the fungi’s scientific name. Their proposed measure would do away with…
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