Politics

Rethinking the drug war: In the classroom

“The purpose of the course was to develop student understanding of how the war on drugs “impacts young people, decimates communities, swells the ranks of the juvenile justice system, and negatively impacts school learning and discipline.” On my campus, a major barrier I saw to recruitment [for SSDP] was the stigma attached to drug policy…

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Biography/Memoir

How do we reform the police? We talked about it with Neill Franklin, a former cop

“As cops educate more cops and prosecutors educate more prosecutors, the sooner the madness ends.” By talking about the many byproducts of the war on drugs (over incarceration, civil forfeiture, police militarization, poor police community relations, overdose deaths, immigration, etc.), we can paint a correlation for people. This reformation also creates an atmosphere for increased…

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Science

Why psychedelic drugs are having a medical renaissance

“Years of pills and talk therapy failed to help his post-traumatic stress disorder. So, he turned to a surprising alternative at the center of a revolution in neuroscience and medicine.” I was fascinated that, how could this have been such a big part of a psychiatry and that I never heard about it, completely buried…

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Politics

Federal House Bill would reschedule cannabis, re-define marijuana to exclude CBD

“NORML said that while rescheduling cannabis “will not end federal prohibition” it would “bring an end to the federal government’s longstanding intellectual dishonesty that marijuana ‘lacks accepted medical use.” “It would also likely permit banks and other financial institutions to work with state-compliant marijuana-related businesses, and permit employers in the cannabis industry to take tax…

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