A bill signed by Gov. Kate Brown on Tuesday (August 15th, 2017) makes personal-use possession of cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine and other drugs a misdemeanor, not a felony. Oregon joined just a handful of other U.S. states in defelonizing drugs under the new law, which was supported by law enforcement groups and takes effect immediately. Original…
The new law takes effect immediately. (August 16th, 2017) *Link “It’s a great recognition of the fact that we don’t need to further criminalize and turn people into felons over substance abuse, mental health addiction — problems like that,” public defender Aaron Jeffers said Wednesday. “I think the hope is that this will open up the opportunity to…
The poor quality of research-grade marijuana is skewing the results of cannabis research, according to a report released earlier this year by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine (NASEM). “Because of restrictions on production and vicissitudes in supply and demand, federally produced cannabis may have been harvested years earlier, is stored in a…
*slums in Jakarta, Indonesia’s capital ,where Indonesian President Joko Widodo has called for the execution of “suspects” Indonesia’s president, has instructed police to shoot suspected drug dealers. The rights group said Karnavian “should denounce the Philippines’ ‘war on drugs’ for what it truly is: a brutal, unlawful assault on the rule of law, human rights,…
The Net Pleasure Index is the first ever attempt to define and rank drugs in terms of the overall balance of pleasures and harms If you want to guess how it turned out here are the drugs we asked about, in alphabetical order: alcohol, amphetamine, cannabis, cocaine, GHB/GBL, ketamine, LSD, magic mushrooms, MDMA, mephedrone, and…
A bipartisan group of Oregon lawmakers joined legislators from across the country on Monday (August 6th, 2017) in calling for the federal government to remove marijuana from the list of controlled drugs. The lawmakers’ vote to pass the resolution took place in Boston, at the National Conference of State Legislatures’ annual summit. If the federal…
*Nixon resigns as President speech A new Manhattan federal lawsuit against Jeff Sessions, the DOJ and the Drug Enforcement Agency … The suit challenges the constitutionality of the 1970 Controlled Substance Act that classifies marijuana as a dangerous substance, in the same category as heroin or LSD. “Classifying cannabis as a ‘Schedule I drug’ is…
Federal marijuana laws have long undermined our nation’s promise of liberty and justice for all. Our nation’s arbitrary efforts to criminalize a substance that is less dangerous than alcohol or cigarettes or fast food, has not only made our country less just, but our communities less safe. Our broken marijuana [and other drug] laws have…
Even if they get the right substance, White says, students might not use it safely because of a lack of education. So instead, he advocates working with law enforcement, school administrators and medical professionals to teach students about the real risks and safest methods, a process called “harm reduction.” They’ve faced some opposition from college…
The pressure to share information can be almost constant, but psychotherapists who facilitate psychedelic research do not share information about the subjects in their care with the public unless those individuals decide independently that they want to tell their stories. Research participants are often vulnerable, but also autonomous, and can give consent for interviews with…
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