In many countries, including Switzerland, the Netherlands, Germany and Denmark, opioid treatment may include daily injections of heroin, just as a diabetic may receive daily insulin injections, along with treating the patient’s medical and psychosocial issues. These patients hold jobs, pay taxes and live long, healthy, productive lives. Yet in the U.S., such programs are…
Two decades’ worth of clinical research was first ignored and then forgotten; laboratories and careers were shut down; the War on Drugs claimed thousands of psychiatric patients as the first of its many civilian casualties. If you’ve been paying attention recently you’ll know we are in the midst of a Psychedelic Renaissance, discovering the clinical…
Most drug courts do not reduce imprisonment, do not save money or improve public safety, and ultimately fail to help people struggling with drug problems. Today’s drug courts are no more effective — but are considerably more costly — than voluntary treatment, and often leave their participants worse off for trying. Most U.S. drug courts…
The name change to honor the late author Ken Kesey took effect immediately… The name change comes two years after the city of Springfield recognized the author with a large mural of him painted on the side of a downtown building. In a related action, city councilors voted 5-2 to suspend indefinitely the request to…
Jeff Sessions wants to expand the supply of medical marijuana grown for research [He] said he wants to see “more competition” among medical marijuana growers who supply the plant to researchers, in his Wednesday morning testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee. Hatch [R-Utah] co-sponsored a piece of bipartisan legislation, the MEDS Act, which is designed…
The OLCC will allocate some of the tax revenue from licensed cannabis sales to fund teams of OLCC investigators and state police in Medford, Eugene, and Portland. There are currently two OLCC investigators and two inspectors in the Medford area, but five more inspectors will be hired to assist the investigations. The agency has increased…
Fifty-one percent of Republicans tell Gallup that, yes, marijuana should be legal, up from 42 percent last year. What has changed? Half the country has moved toward marijuana legalization in some form — with more than a half-dozen states having legalized pot for recreational use and more than dozen others having legalized medical marijuana. As…
“It’s recreation, so it’s to have fun, it’s to relax, it’s to lounge,” he says. “You don’t necessarily want to do that just by yourself.” Colorado Republicans have brushed off concerns from the [current] administration about the spread of recreational marijuana, throwing their weight behind a bipartisan bill at the state legislature that would officially…
“This is not a sentence I feel particularly good about,” Judge Douglas Harpool said. Authorities twice went onto White’s property before obtaining a search warrant, court records show. Original Article (USA Today):77-year-old [in United States] sentenced to 10 years for growing marijuanaArtwork Fair Use: Public Domain
In the Philippines, tens of thousands of protesters rallied in cities across the country Thursday [September 21, 2017), warning that President Rodrigo Duterte was on the brink of imposing a dictatorship. “This is the biggest rally so far of the youth and people, and the rallies are bound to get bigger. And the Duterte…
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