“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…
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…
At 28, he is living with quite severe mental health problems – “depression and anxiety as a result of childhood trauma, that led to borderline personality disorder and PTSD”. He says the prescription medication he has been given results in more side-effects than benefits. “I’ve found that these substances, psychedelics, give me the benefits without…
Former drug czars from a more militant drug policy era have been publicly agitating to “bring back the war on drugs.” Asked about marijuana legalization last fall, Marino [new drug tzar] told a reporter that…“the only way I would agree to consider legalizing marijuana is if we had a really in depth-medical scientific study… he…
A growing movement of people are ‘microdosing’ LSD in the morning – taking 10-15 micrograms, instead of the larger doses used for drug trips – and claim that it can cure anxiety and insomnia. ‘Like many people, I often find myself scrolling aimlessly through Facebook when I tell myself I’m too tired for anything else.…
“Continued, much less intensified, enforcement of marijuana prohibition would be a tragedy. The drug war has created more than enough societal disasters, both domestically and internationally, since Nixon launched that initiative. Millions of Americans have had their lives disrupted and acquired the stigma of a criminal record for doing nothing more than choosing to use…
“It’s only in recent years that studying the positive effects of psychedelics has gained traction in mainstream media after several well-known studies emerged following a decades’ long ban of its use in labs and clinical trials since 1970.” “He’s been one of the most intelligent champions for psychedelics as medicine,” says Alex Grey, a visionary…
As ibogaine, the active alkaloid of iboga, enters the body, the process starts to rehabilitate an individual, ridding habits, and causes of anxiety or depression, powerfully. Already regarded as a highly successful rehabilitation center, the addition of Ibogaine treatment to the Washington-based organization has been well received. While ibogaine has been used by centers elsewhere,…
“I’m absolutely sure that, within ten years, psilocybin will be an accepted treatment for depression,” David Nutt, the director of the neuropsychopharmacology unit in the division of brain sciences at Imperial College London told me last month.” One key characteristic of depression is overly strengthened connections in brain circuits in certain regions of the brain…
“It makes sense to me that MDMA could help PTSD patients. In fact, it may have helped my former friend offload her trauma — onto me.” But people shouldn’t take this, like I did, as a reason to conduct informal therapy sessions of their own. To the contrary, the same properties that make the drug…
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