About $500 a second… and of course, this is just the dollars and sense of it — not to mention the costs to human life, liberty and happiness. Billions of American tax dollars that might have been used to fund other important services have been wasted on the drug war Original Article (Sun Times):Guess how…
“This is political persecution. Every day that I am here is an injustice,” she said, dressed for the simmering 93-degree heat in what is now a kind of uniform: beige sandals, black shorts that stop modestly above the knee and a black-and-white T-shirt. When a Philippine senator called for an investigation into President Rodrigo Duterte’s…
In earlier times it appeared as a “war” on alcohol, which supposedly was terminated in 1933. It [war on “drugs”] then returned in full force, which an insecure President Nixon used to try to escape the harsh glare of Watergate. Despite its somewhat benign appearance, it basically serves to keep our prisons, our police departments…
A decree issued by Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto today [June 19th, 2017] confirmed that Mexico has legalized cannabis for medicinal use. Peña Nieto was once a vehement opponent of cannabis legalization, but has since called for a re-examination of global drug policy after a nationwide public debate on legalization in early 2016. “The ruling…
Stanford researchers Drs. Rob Malenka and Boris Heifets believe that MDMA has more potential for teaching neuroscientists about empathy than any other compound. A Canadian study claims that psychedelic drugs like ecstasy may decrease suicidal thoughts and reduce suicide risk. The specific study analyzed data pertaining to 800 female sex workers over the course of…
The American Kratom Association (AKA) sent an action alert to members warning that a bill introduced by Sen. Chuck Grassley and Sen. Dianne Feinstein could be a “backdoor way” of banning kratom — an herbal supplement that millions of people use as an alternative to opioid painkillers. But reform advocates are worried that the…
Post-acutely, ayahuasca potentiates mindfulness capacities in volunteers, and induces rapid and sustained antidepressant effects in treatment-resistant patients. Here we investigated in an open-label uncontrolled study in sixteen healthy volunteers ayahuasca-induced post-acute neurometabolic and connectivity modifications, and their association with mindfulness measures. Original Article (Pubmed):Assessing the psychedelic “after-glow” in ayahuasca usersArtwork Fair Use: Jacob Botter
The real wealth lives on the surface of the ground… Mexico would profit much more by letting silver, the ‘excrement of the Moon’, remain buried, and instead take advantage of the natural medical and therapeutic wealth of peyote to help cure modern man of his ‘sickness of the heart’. Currently, several companies are itching to…
*Distribution of Federal prisoners in the United States since 1950 In the face of this [overdose] crisis, Jeff Sessions has re-declared the war on drugs, a five-decade old boondoggle that civil-rights organizations, economists and even some law-enforcement groups believe to be discredited by years of failure. The war on drugs has already cost U.S.…
“America is more addicted to drug money than they are addicted to drugs.” -former DEA agent named Celerino Castillo “We have a [current] administration … promising to bring back the War on Drugs’ most draconian policies, including mandatory sentencing laws,” Lappé says. “Policies that most experts on all ends of the spectrum agree do little…
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