Politics

At least three UK City Centres to get drugs testing facility

In Feb. 2018, West Midlands Police and Crime Commissioner David Jamieson published a report laying out a number of recommendations aimed at reducing drug harms, protecting communities and making better use of limited police resources … “The report just opens so many doors,” added Measham. “It opens the door for more police and more police forces to…

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Spirituality

Building a Modern Eleusis

I have concluded that this Second Psychedelic Revolution is instinctively creating modern mystery schools, and that these movable temples of music, dance, and art are the closest things our society has to true portals to transcendence. For most people, the more of these festivals you attend, the more this sense of community grows, along with…

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Jeff Sessions … [and] medical marijuana

Suffice to say this is an issue that unites most on the left and right, as well as those who advocate for combat veterans and individuals who use marijuana for medical needs … Now it is up to Congress in the year-end spending bill whether the will of [then] candidate Trump and an overwhelming majority…

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Does Kratom really kill? Officials aren’t telling us the whole story.

Scientists say there’s scant evidence that mitragynine causes fatal overdoses, and many kratom advocates claim that overdosing on the substance alone is impossible. Although authorities have come forward with reports of deaths supposedly related to kratom, all of the cases they’ve cited publicly have involved the presence of other, often more dangerous drugs, making it…

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What’s Kratom, and why are States banning it?

The American Society of Addiction Medicine argued in comments to the DEA last year that the whole botanical product … should be made illegal to prevent people with addictions from trying to use it to recover … Animal studies have shown that kratom use may lead to addiction. But user surveys indicate that although the…

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National expert: no cases show deaths solely from coffee-like herb kratom, which should be handled no differently than other substances

“…kratom… has not been linked to any known deaths, and the plant has little potential for abuse and dependence – as low or lower than such widely used (and federally unscheduled substances) as “nutmeg, hops, St. John’s Wort, chamomile, guarana, and kola nut.” -Dr. Henningfield* Dr. Henningfield previously served as chief of the Clinical Pharmacology…

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Biography/Memoir

The electric kool-aid acid cure

“How do you comfort the dying? You could try giving them LSD. It’s not a facetious idea. In March 2014, Dr. Peter Gasser, a Swiss psychiatrist, published the results of using LSD alongside talk therapy for 12 patients with terminal illness. It was the first controlled trial of the drug in over 40 years. And…

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