Most tellingly, at a time when more than 60 million Americans enjoy legal marijuana in their home states and when opinion polls show strong and increasing majorities in favor of legalization nationwide, drug agents and federal prosecutors are still devoting more resources to marijuana than to heroin. According to the data, only 14.2% of federal…
At the time, I’d just started my first semester of college, and my only focus was getting back to class and finishing my degree. I agreed to the terms and walked out of the courtroom, happy to be free, confident the incident was at least mostly behind me. Two decades of constantly having to explain…
Residents and shopkeepers in North Richmond have been calling all year for such a facility, which has the support of paramedics, nurses and firefighters’ unions, and the police union recently announced they no longer oppose it. Vote 1 Local Jobs MP James Purcell expressed strong support on Monday for an injecting room trial. “The research…
The commission will recommend the Department of Justice establish [more] drug courts in every federal district, and that individuals with substance use disorder who violate probation terms be diverted to a drug court… President Trump’s commission on combating the opioid epidemic plans to encourage the federal government to establish drug courts in every federal judicial…
Drug courts did not significantly reduce the average amount of time offenders spent behind bars, suggesting that any benefits realized from a lower incarceration rate are offset by the long sentences imposed on participants when they fail the program. Drug courts eliminate the experience of incarceration for many drug-involved offenders, but they also do not…
[This report] is based on interviews with health care professionals, social workers, judges, lawyers, drug court staff, and drug court participants. “Drug courts regularly set participants up for failure. Few communities have adequate treatment facilities, insurance plans often won’t finance effective treatment programs, and the criminal justice objectives of drug courts often overrule the medical…
There is no evidence that enforcement of drug-induced homicide reduces drug use or sales, or deadly overdoses. Rather, the only behavior that is actually deterred is the seeking of life-saving medical assistance for fear of prosecution. This is especially true because police and prosecutors are widely abusing their discretion in investigating and prosecuting drug-induced homicide…
Healthy volunteers were injected with LSD while lying in an MRI scanner, and subjected to several other neuroimaging methods at the same time. This amounted to an arsenal of measurement that previous decades of psychedelic researchers could only dream of. Humans have gathered, cultivated, distilled, and manufactured all kinds of drugs for thousands of years.…
The news from the California Legislative Analyst’s Office was welcome by organizers of the statewide proposal, known for now as the California Psilocybin Legalization Initiative. “It’s definitely encouraging,” says Dimitric “Kitty” Merchant, co-author of the measure. “State and local governments could receive additional revenues, such as sales taxes from psilocybin sales permitted under this measure,”…
If you are a proponent of psychedelic medicine, then nearly every major finding, newspaper headline, and governmental reevaluation of recent years has been music to your ears. Initial results from studies have been breathtakingly positive … convincing an anti-drug society to accept such a radical new viewpoint, and to do so with evidence, ethics, and…
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