“Every agricultural crop has its highs and its lows,” she said. “No pun intended.” And because US federal law still prohibits cannabis, Oregon growers cannot legally sell outside the state’s borders … Tristan Reisfar works part-time for a company, High Desert Pure, that produces vapor cartridges and said he fields phone calls from desperate growers…
*Age-standardised disability-adjusted life year (DALY) rates from Post-traumatic stress disorder by country (per 100,000 inhabitants). “We can do legalization and decriminalization, but we need a reparative component to these policies” … Betty Aldworth, the Executive Director of Students for Sensible Drug Policy continued with a plea for more compassion in different drug use contexts. “I…
They didn’t run labs or spawn cults of personality… Though you wouldn’t know it from most retrospectives, many of LSD’s earliest advocates — stretching all the way back to the 1940s — were women. [For example]… On June 12 of [1943], as part of another experiment, she [Susi Ramstein… lab assistant to Albert Hofmann], became…
So he did something bold. He applied to conduct the very first clinical trial on a psychedelic since the ban a whole generation before. He wanted to give psilocybin, a naturally occurring chemical found inside “magic” mushrooms, to “respectable” citizens who had never used it before, to see if they would have a mystical experience…
Because ibogaine is illegal in the US and not well known, the people with addiction who end up in Mexico seeking treatment are typically there as a last resort … Treatment at this [ibogaine] clinic costs between $5,000 and $12,000, depending on the length of stay and programme. Emily’s parents ended up paying for her…
In terms of cannabis’s health conscious appeal, “For weight-conscious consumers, a group skewing slightly female, marijuana has another advantage: It is calorie free.” Wine also stands to lose as cannabis is being steadily legalized in states that are home to robust wine consumption. “According to IWSR [the London-based research group that does not spell out…
The Psilocybin Service Initiative of Oregon, a ballot initiative aimed at the 2020 election cycle, outlines a detailed regulatory framework and a supervised service modality involving licensed centers staffed by certified facilitators. Arguments in Support of the Proposed Legislation: Safety arguments: “While the effects on consciousness are huge, Psilocybin is non-toxic and non-addictive. It’s less…
*WISE: Sustainable construction in practice A new residential teaching facility (Wales Institute for Sustainable Education) under construction at the Centre for Alternative Technology. The building incorporates carbon-saving materials and technologies including ‘hemcrete’ (hemp based sprayed concrete) and 7.2m-high rammed earth walls, making them the highest walls of this kind in Britain. The inner fibers…
The treatment’s maker, U.K. company GW Pharmaceuticals Plc, provided “substantial evidence” of the drug’s effectiveness, FDA staff said in a report released Tuesday. The medication would treat seizures associated with two rare forms of epilepsy that typically affect children, according to the report. …the medication appears to have an increased risk of liver injury… “The risk-benefit profile…
…The church and about 15 others like it [filed] a claim against the city seeking $1.2 million in damages and alleging harassment and discrimination. Church leaders say they smoke marijuana or eat edibles as part of spiritual meditation as a religious sacrament, but city officials say they’re using religion as a front for selling pot.…
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