“There’s lots of relapses because 12-step treatment doesn’t get to the root of sexual, racial, class trauma or veteran’s trauma,” Harris said. Mark Harris, Lane’s Coordinator for Substance Abuse Prevention and an experienced addiction counselor, saw limitations within the 12-step programs that are a requirement for most drug courts … A 2011 study by Shannon…
Colorado blazed trails when it legalized pot and now Denver could lead the way decriminalizing magic mushrooms. Decriminalization would mean reducing the penalty for possession of psilocybin mushrooms. Colorado decriminalized marijuana long before the drug became legal for medicinal or recreational use. Original Article (Denver Channel):After pot’s success, could Denver legalize mushrooms next?Artwork Fair…
Unfortunately, the FDA is trying to pull a fast one on Americans, with no regard for the truth of their claims or the potential consequences of a ban on kratom … Simply put, the report makes clear that the FDA is being incredibly dishonest with the public in a blatant effort to demonize kratom. It’s…
Trump said that allowing prosecutors to seek the death penalty for drug dealers — an idea he said he got from Chinese President [who made himself Emperor (dictator) for life] Xi Jinping. The potential policy, which is being studied by the Department of Justice and the White House Domestic Policy Council, could include… ultra-severe penalties…
“He’ll say, ‘You know the Chinese and Filipinos don’t have a drug problem. They just kill them.’ ” President Trump has long expressed admiration for how Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has encouraged the extrajudicial murder of anyone suspected of dealing drugs. An estimated 12,000 people have been killed by police and vigilantes in the Philippines…
But first, let’s clean up the name because, although LSD is called “acid,” it really shouldn’t be, at least according to chemists. Lysergic acid, a natural product which is produced by ergot fungus, has, as the name implies, a functional group called a carboxylic acid (blue circle), hence the name. But lysergic acid is not…
An Oregon company is recalling three brands of kratom powder products because samples have tested positive for Salmonella and an illness has been reported in connection with one of the products … “Consumers who may be in possession of potentially contaminated products are advised not to consume products labeled with the above product descriptions and…
Are psychedelic users happier than the rest of us? According to a recent study in the Journal of Psychopharmacology, the answer is yes. Breaking harmful neural patterns and allowing the brain to make new connections is one of the mechanisms by which psychedelics improve mental health … The pharmaceutical therapies currently used in the…
In Gabon it takes at least ten years to be a master initiator and to see Westerners as master initiators in two months is shocking” write Yann Guignon, founder of the NGO “Blessing of the Forest”. In Gabon it is inseparable from the rites of passage (“bwiti”) but about 50 years ago its use was…
The (2016) UNGASS (Special Session of the General Assembly UNGASS 2016) process [was] been marred by efforts to shut down dissenting voices and by the use of Kafkaesque procedures to make criticism of the current approach invisible. The UNGASS process has been marred by secret negotiations and by twisting processes in order to maintain…
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