Researchers from the Department of Medicine at Imperial College London have published a paper providing new evidence that when it comes to psychedelic-assisted therapy, a positive “[mind] set and setting” may be crucial to long-term improvements in a patient’s mental health. The new study acknowledges that unaccounted-for components may influence outcomes more than, or as…
*from ECfES April 2016 Newsletter “Fighting drugs without legalizing them is like fighting tooth decay without removing the cavity. UN drug prohibition and criminalization, indelibly written into the 1961 Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, is the cavity. Drill it clean during the March 2018 CND Session.” Europe, Asia, Indonesia, Africa, Australia, and North, South and Central…
Opponents of cannabis reform always claim that legalization will increase teen use of marijuana, but statistics from canna-legal states are increasingly proving that the exact opposite is true. Despite the [current] administration’s constant anti-cannabis rhetoric, the National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) has confirmed that teen marijuana use has dropped in almost every…
Decriminalisation ends criminal penalties for possessing small amounts of a drug for personal use, but all other aspects of the drug market remain illegal. For Norwegian advocates of harm reduction, this might seem like a big step forward. They are probably right. Decriminalisation was not the only option on the table for Norway, however. As…
*Eugene, Oregon Women’s Day March 2017 Today, January 23rd, 2018, the city has announced its courageous decision to try to prevent as many more deaths as possible. Philadelphia will support the opening of safe injection sites in Philadelphia … It’s a testament to how far [a] city [can] come in a year If a safe…
Imagine sitting in your home with friends, some are having a glass of wine and some are smoking a cigarette on the balcony after a calorie-laden dinner … a loud bang and yelling at the door silences everyone as the reality hits that you are about to be arrested and charged for drinking, smoking and…
As politicians, health authorities and first responders try to get a handle on Alberta’s opioid crisis, new figures released by the province show there was a significant uptick in the number of carfentanil deaths in 2017 from the year before. Just last week, the Alberta College of Physicians and Surgeons published a letter about the…
…a substance called psilocybin. This is the principal psychedelic component in shrooms, responsible for their mind-bending, mood-altering properties. This study builds on an earlier experiment, which found that psilocybin can reduce blood flow in the amygdala, as well as symptoms of depression. At the time, researchers explained that the drug had produced an “after-glow” that…
It is one of 39 resolutions that the party opened up for online discussion Tuesday, January 16th, 2018 … On illegal drugs, the caucus resolution urges the government to adopt the model instituted in 2001 in Portugal, where treatment and harm reduction services were expanded and criminal penalties eliminated for low-level possession and consumption of…
I’m a massive advocate for being ridiculously picky about who you join in ceremony … Sometimes we have to visit the darkest corners of our consciousness to let go of what ails us; if that’s the case, you really want to be with someone who has done the same work on themselves. I work both…
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