Doctors with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs still can’t recommend medical marijuana, but they are being encouraged to talk more about it with military veterans. That’s what a new V.A. policy being rolled out this month (December 2017) says. The directive urges government doctors to “discuss with the Veteran marijuana use, due to its…
The bill also would penalize states that haven’t legalized marijuana and have “disproportionate” rates of arrest and incarceration for marijuana-related offences by cutting federal funding in those states for new jails, prisons and staffing. U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, is cosponsoring a bill to decriminalize marijuana across the nation and penalize states with high arrest…
A leafy plant [Kratom] in the coffee family could help combat the opioid crisis, according to research from the University of British Columbia. “It doesn’t cause respiratory depression, at least not in the types of doses that are regularly used that are causing all the fatalities around opioid use,” Walsh says. “There are certainly a…
The Harm Reduction Action Center wants a supervised, safe space for users to use. This would be in an unmarked building where clean instruments would be provided and used ones would be collected. Denver City Council President … threw his support behind the idea of a safe place for drug users to shoot up ……
Suffice to say this is an issue that unites most on the left and right, as well as those who advocate for combat veterans and individuals who use marijuana for medical needs … Now it is up to Congress in the year-end spending bill whether the will of [then] candidate Trump and an overwhelming majority…
“This is not a ‘take three pills and call me in the morning’ kind of situation,” Burge said, “At no point will people go to the pharmacist, for example, and pick up a bunch of MDMA and go home and try it … Rather, this is a 12-week course with introductory psychotherapy sessions and then…
Lab tests eventually revealed 42kg of the substance to be carfentanil – a drug the US Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) has described as “crazy dangerous” and which authorities in the US have flagged as as potential chemical weapon. The local police force had unwittingly stumbled across what is believed to be the largest volume of…
The trial will begin in the first quarter of 2018 and is planned to include clinical sites in Czech Republic, Finland, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain and the UK. COMPASS Pathways is a healthcare company, founded in 2015 to accelerate patient access to evidence-based innovation in mental health. We are developing psilocybin therapy through…
Treatment methods reported include flogging, beatings, punishment by starvation, long-term handcuffing to bed frames, ‘coding’ (hypnotherapy aimed at persuading the patient that drug use leads to death), electric shock, burying patients in the ground and xenoimplantation of guinea pig brains. “Such methods are not only cruel but ineffective. As the Russian Federal Drug Control…
Swogger and Walsh reviewed the combined results of 13 studies conducted between January 1960 and July 2017, using data from 28,745 individuals. “There is a clear need for more rigorous, well-controlled, prospective studies to support a sophisticated, nuanced understanding of the plant,” says Swogger. “But data across cultures indicated that kratom has a legitimate role…
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