Raphael Mechoulam, the first person to synthesize THC, earning him the moniker the “Father of Cannabis Science,” has died at 92. THC, CBD, and CBG are basically household names today… …while working as a chemist in the early 1960s at the Weizmann Institute, Mechoulam got some weed from the Israeli police with his goal already…
[Three] psilocybin [related] bills [two psilocybin cubensis related (SB’s) and one psilocybin related (HB)] introduced for 2023… [SB 302, SB 303] & [HB 2831] which would repeal Oregon’s pioneering drug decriminalization law, and affect [Oregon’s] psilocybin program… [Rep. Kim Thatcher’s SB 302]… in the psilocybin context, the new law would only apply to manufacturers. [Psilocybin…
Compared to the gradual collapse of marijuana prohibition, psychedelic policy seems to be shifting remarkably fast. While states began banning cannabis a century ago, culminating in the Marihuana Tax Act of 1937, prohibition of psychedelics was enacted in the late 1960s… [for example, in Virginia], proposing to make psilocybin, the hallucinogenic substance found in “magic…
Kate Brown’s pardons will remove 47,144 convictions for simple possession of marijuana from individual records. Following the pardon, the Oregon Judicial Department will ensure that all related court records are sealed as required by law, according to the governor’s office… the pardoned marijuana convictions will no longer show up on background checks of public court…
Phil Knight is frustrated with… expansive efforts to legalize drugs beyond marijuana… Knight has ignored repeated requests from Rolling Stone to discuss his donations. Nike has done likewise. “One of the political cartoons after our legislative session had a person snorting cocaine out of a mountain of white,” Knight said. Original Article (Herald and News…
…the review of marijuana’s federal scheduling status will be tasked to the Food and Drug Administration… “The president was very clear – he wants this done as quickly as possible,” U.S. Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Xavier Becerra said, “It’s not new science, but there’s lot of information to gather because in many states…
“As I’ve said before, no one should be in jail just for using or possessing marijuana. Today, I’m taking steps to end our failed approach. Allow me to lay them out… We classify marijuana at the same level as heroin – and more serious than fentanyl. It makes no sense. I’m asking Secretary Xavier Becerra…
National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) Director, Dr. Nora Volkow, and former National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director and recently named “Science Advisor to the President,” Dr. Francis S. Collins recognized in 2017, America’s gateway drugs are pharmaceutical opiods. With millions of Americans struggling with opioid use disorder and thousands overdosing on fentanyl every year,…
Published in the Journal, Drug Science, Policy and Law, [with authors Rayyan Zafar and David Nutt (who performed the first MRI of a human brain under the influence of LSD)], from Imperial College London, Centre for Psychedelic Research and Neuropsychopharmacology, UK: this case highlights the plausible therapeutic role of such plant-based medicines in oncology treatment…
“Our evidence indicates that cannabis use does not appear to have an effect on motivation for recreational users. The participants in our study included users who took cannabis on average four days a week and they were no more likely to lack motivation,” said Professor Barbara Sahakian, researcher in the Department of Psychiatry at the…
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