Medicine/Healing

Is kratom safe enough for the fight against opioids?

Swogger and Walsh reviewed the combined results of 13 studies conducted between January 1960 and July 2017, using data from 28,745 individuals. “There is a clear need for more rigorous, well-controlled, prospective studies to support a sophisticated, nuanced understanding of the plant,” says Swogger. “But data across cultures indicated that kratom has a legitimate role…

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Science

Kratom: An old plant sparks a new challenge

A new study from researchers at the University of Rochester Medical Center and the University of British Columbia compiling 57 years of research into the drug and its effects on mental health found the substance “has harm reduction potential for substance users who want to quit opioids.” … The study also found that it can…

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Politics

Big acid

The only model I can see is one that, presumably through tax incentives, facilitates development of small, not-for profit membership organizations that have both (a) the ability to monitor use by individual members and (b) the ability either (1) to cultivate/manufacture their own ‘products’ [I use that term deliberately] or (2) the ability to purchase…

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Biography/Memoir

Texas cops let handcuffed man on LSD pound his head 50 times before dying

…and then tried to prevent the man’s parents from finding out what happened … The Dallas County District Attorney … found sufficient evidence to file criminally negligent homicide charges against Mesquite officers for shocking Dyer in the testicles and failing to restrain the disoriented man — but the three-year statute of limitations had already passed.​…

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Politics

Even without the rider that protects medical marijuana, a pot crackdown is unlikely

*Dark Green: Use of cannabis permitted, no doctor’s recommendation required / Green: Use of cannabis permitted only with a doctor’s recommendation / Light Green: States with low-THC, high-CBD laws in place / Grey: No medical cannabis or low-THC, high-CBD laws Most Americans think marijuana should be legal, and an even larger majority, including most Republicans,…

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Spirituality

Why it feels like you can communicate with Nature on LSD

It’s likely that, while you’ve been watering it, you have mumbled something to the cactus on your coffee table or the yucca tree by your window. But there are some people who claim to have actually communicated with plants—and nature at large—after taking acid or other psychedelics. Most pass these conversations off as mere hallucinations,…

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