Members of the U.S. House began circulating two Dear Colleague letters … urging their fellow lawmakers to take a stand against renewed federal efforts to crack down on the herbal drug kratom … One letter, written by Reps. Jared Polis (D-Colo.) and Dave Brat (R-Va.) and addressed to the Food and Drug Administration, describes kratom…
A body of civil law governing access to psychedelic substances does not exist yet. It is necessary to write the law. Psychedelic law is essentially a subcategory of commercial law since fundamentally psychedelic substances are just goods that travel in commerce; however, they must be considered separate and apart from other substances due to their…
Perhaps soon the feds will do the right thing and remove marijuana from the list of Schedule I drugs. Given the fact that the therapeutic value of cannabis has now been indisputably proven, and that 25 states have now legalized medical marijuana, it’s high time the federal government recognizes what the majority of Americans already…
The Department of Health and Human Services has recommended a ban on the chemicals in [the whole botanical plant] kratom … Several scientists expressed concerns that such a ban would stifle research on chemicals that could be developed into alternatives to the addictive prescription opioids that kill tens of thousands of Americans each year. They said…
…exposes a blind spot in the logic of [psychedelic] medicalization. While numerous sanctioned psychedelic researchers tout their belief that psychedelics can “effect true healing,” rather than mere symptomatic treatment, their fixation on the individual as a wholly-bound entity, divorced from their environment, misses the bigger picture. While psychedelics may “effect true healing” of the individual,…
There is not one universal psychedelic experience that people from all cultures reliably and predictably have … even with the same substance, different cultures frame psychedelic experiences in different ways, leading to different experiencesDifferent cultures, then, create different psychedelic experiences, different ontological realities. But the hope of the psychedelic renaissance is that, by conducting the most…
A decade after medical marijuana took root, psilocybin mushrooms might get their legal moment in the sun … er, their semi-shady spot under a tree. “There’s this kind of ancestral history that [psychedelics] are the way that people have figured out the next steps in their lives, and worked out this feeling of being trapped…
Recently, though, the study was terminated. When the director of the NIH, Dr. Francis Collins, became aware of the twisted nature of its funding he had no choice but to pull the plug. Saving the scientific integrity of the NIH and saving the public from getting fed a b—–t load of forged science.Using private foundations,…
In describing their new study, Prochazkova and co-authors said, “Taken together, our results suggest that consuming a microdose of [psychedelic] truffles allowed participants to create more out-of-the-box alternative solutions for a problem, thus providing preliminary support for the assumption that microdosing improves divergent thinking.”Although there’s lots of anecdotal evidence about the “mind-expanding” powers of psilocybin,…
The Drug Enforcement Administration has released the 2018 National Drug Threat Assessment, the agency’s annual report on drug trafficking and drug abuse in the United States … there’s not a word about kratom in the National Drug Threat Assessment. There never has been. “It is not surprising. Kratom is not the ‘dangerous opioid’ that the FDA…
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