Unwilling to wait for Congress or the FDA to act, and frustrated by the expanding mental health crisis, four U.S. cities have already decriminalized psilocybin. That means people can grow their own psilocybin mushrooms [and other species of naturally occurring psychedelics plants], and the cities will not spend money or other resources arresting or prosecuting them…
…important revelation can be found in DARPA’s report. On one hand they admit the therapeutic value of psychedelic substances, and on the other, they dismiss it due to the “side effects” they call “hallucination.” Reinventing the medicine wheel is not an attempt to revolutionize medicine, since the revolution has already happened in a prehistoric distant…
As a former crack cocaine user, I’ve been on both ends of sharing a glass stem. I know how people experiencing stimulant dependency may be more inclined to take risks, like sharing pipes… The renovated site has stainless steel booths for people to inject, snort or orally consume their drugs. It includes a separate room, with…
In August 2020, the federal government began allowing patients with a terminal illness access to… [psilocybe mushrooms] through exemptions to the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act [through Section 56, which was the first step in starting Canada’s medical marijuana program]… “These are patients that are dying,” said Minister of Health Patty Hajdu. Dr. Ryan Patchett-Marble,…
DEA has on numerous past occasions denied petitions to change marijuana’s status under the CSA [Controlled Substances Act]. The plaintiffs initially filed that lawsuit against the federal agency in May [2020], contending that DEA’s justification for maintaining a Schedule I status for cannabis is unconstitutional. DEA attempted to quash the case by filing a motion to…
The government is currently considering a petition that calls for the decriminalization of psychedelic drugs. “I feel more strongly than ever that decriminalization will happen,” says Trevor Millar, executive director of Canadian Psychedelic Association, “We’re 10 years ahead of where I thought we’d be at this stage of the game five years ago.” “We know…
One challenge stands out: psilocybin seems to make people more liberal. Scientific reports associating psychedelic use and liberal values stretch back as far as 1971, and although these findings have been replicated more recently, a noncausal explanation is readily available. If psilocybin does change political values, the significance of this effect goes deeper than which…
Very commonly substances are criminalized because they’re associated with what’s called the dangerous classes, poor people, or working people. So for example in England in the 19th century, there was a period when gin was criminalized and whiskey wasn’t, because gin is what poor people drink. -Noam Chomsky The role of drugs in the exercise of political control is…
“We’re already dealing with a pretty challenging market environment. And now the IRS is going to be looking for ways to find more tax revenue,” [says Peterson]. So, they created the 280E tax provision, which stipulates that no expenses related to drug trafficking can be written off as legitimate “business expenses.” But now, almost forty…
[For-profit corporations planning on profiting through legal manipulations of false wars]. The overarching context… comes through clearly: we’re in an ‘arms race’ between the rapidly-expanding psychedelic pharmaceutical start-up sector that seeks a monopoly through federal regulatory approval, on the one part, and the citizenry who seek immediate equitable access for all in a manner analogous…
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