While it’s true that yes, the US is in the midst of a “historic drug epidemic,” marijuana is not the drug that kills 91 Americans every single day. It is also not responsible for the quadrupling in overdose deaths in the US since 1999. In fact, according to the US Drug Enforcement Administration… no deaths…
A total of 29 states including New York, as well as the District of Columbia, Guam and Puerto Rico, have medical cannabis programs, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures. Eight states and D.C. have passed laws legalizing pot recreationally, though the Drug Enforcement Administration still classifies it next to heroin as a Schedule…
A growing body of research (acknowledged by the National Institute on Drug Abuse) has shown that opiate deaths and overdoses actually decrease in states with medical marijuana laws on the books. …citing of a “historic drug epidemic” to justify a crackdown on medical marijuana is at odds with what researchers know about current drug use…
An apple a day keeps the doctor away. Here’s a new health-related adage to consider: Regular consumption of marijuana keeps you thin and active. According to researchers at Oregon Health and Science University, people who use marijuana more than five times per month have a lower body mass index (BMI) than people who do not…
“Much of the recent work with psychedelics picks up where early psychiatric pioneers left off, in many cases confirming what researchers hypothesized but lacked the tools to test… but that promise won’t be realized until regulators change the restrictions on psychedelics and recognize their potential as a medicine…now scientists have the tools to figure out…
*Operation Michoacán The right to health is also undermined significantly by punitive drug policies. Nowhere is this more evident than in Russia, where, as a result of tough drug laws and a lack of sufficient healthcare, one in 100 adults is HIV positive. This has been directly attributed to the prohibition of opiate substitute prescribing,…
We’d rather stick to antidepressants of minimal therapeutic impact, not because they guard against addiction – they don’t – but because of a puritanical aversion to supplying unearned happiness and, along with it, a deep-seated belief that people who suffer emotionally should just get over it. The idea that people become addicted to what are…
“I am going to be working with a coalition of Republicans and Democrats, progressives and libertarians, liberals, and conservatives…” Stone said at the Cannabis World Congress and Business Expo, according to Business Insider. “It’s our intention to identify, reach, and mobilize millions of pro-cannabis voters to urge the president to keep his word,” Stone…
“The study of psychedelics is “bringing psychotherapy and medicine together,” says David Nutt, a neuropsychopharmacologist at Imperial College London and a co-author of the first imaging study looking at the effects of LSD on the human brain. “Drug-assisted psychotherapy is going to be the great advance in the [field] next 20 years… Parts of the…
“Initial results – to be published later this month in Royal Society for Public Health Journal – suggest almost one in five users (18%) opted to dispose of their drugs once aware of the true content, immediately reducing the amount of potentially harmful substances circulating on site.” Furthermore, The Royal Society for Public Health (RSPH)…
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