She plans to give 20 participants low doses of LSD or a placebo, and scanning their brains while they perform a range of cognitive tasks. Before it was made illegal in 1968, Ms Feilding would take LSD to boost her creativity, and even found that her performace in the ancient Chinese game of Go, improved.…
Their research is timely. Thousands of people from around the world travel to the Amazon every year to drink ayahuasca for mental health conditions including alcoholism, depression, anxiety, PTSD, eating disorders, and drug addiction. Standish, a professor at the Bastyr University Research Institute in Seattle, is one of several scientists hoping more governments around the…
The government hopes the state-grown pot will “guarantee the quality and the purity of the product” citizens consume. “Cannabis will be dispensed in pharmacies starting in the month of July,” president of the National Drug Board, Juan Andres Roballo, told a press conference Thursday. Original Article (High Times):First country in the world authorizes countries to…
“My order is shoot to kill you. I don’t care about human rights, you better believe me.” Duterte has viciously defended his “drug war” as a success, and accused the most prominent opponent of the killings ― Philippine Senator Leila de Lima ― of being involved in the drug trade herself. Duterte has also…
Employees such as police, emergency responders, and elected officials may benefit from pre-service psychedelic therapy. It is possible that, in the future, psychedelics could be used to invoke deeper levels of compassion and understanding in people in positions of authority, and all public service employees could benefit from the inoculation against anxiety and depression that…
Before it’s given to patients, the marijuana will be kept inside steel narcotics lockers bolted to the wall in a room with surveillance cameras and a combination keypad on the door. Each locker has tamper-proof hinges and requires two keys—each held by a different person. If someone puts the wrong key in one of the…
That total does not include the dollar value of other seized assets, like cars, homes, electronics and clothing. These seizures are all legal under the controversial practice of civil asset forfeiture, which allows authorities to take cash, contraband and property from people suspected of crime. But the practice does not require authorities to obtain a…
Employers will have to review and amend existing workplace policies and procedures once the Cannabis Act comes into force. This legal change may also require a social shift away from traditional views on the recreational use of marijuana. One key change will include removing any express policy references to marijuana usage as an illegal “off-duty”…
Hundreds of thousands of people identified as drug users… are held without due process in centers where they may be subjected to torture, and physical and sexual violence in the name of “treatment”. Individuals in drug detention centers… are commonly held against their will. They are picked up by police, or “volunteered” by local authorities…
There are plans at the BC Center for Excellence to start doing some trials with psychedelics. Elena Argento, a researcher for the BC Center for Excellence in HIV/AIDs, claims psychedelics could play a significant role in decreasing the risk of suicide in vulnerable groups such as female sex workers. Argento’s research is based on a…
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