“The major benefit seems to be that there’s an improved equilibrium of systems throughout the body, which is why it seems to affect so many different systems,” he said… but for addicts, vets, and people suffering from disorders who could find help in these drugs, the stakes are as high as their very survival. LSD…
“Open dispensaries provide over $30,000 per year in social benefit in terms of larcenies prevented,” authors concluded. Researchers identified an immediate increase in criminal activity – particularly property crime, larceny, and auto break ins – in the areas where dispensary operations were forced to close as compared to crime rates in those neighborhoods where marijuana…
…he would force drug dealers inside the National Bilibid Prison to eat the plastic parts of their cellphones. I don’t know if it’s edible, maybe the plastic. If I still see plastic there, that’s what you’ll eat for the day. You won’t eat any rice,” Mr. Duterte said. At one point, President Duterte reminded policemen…
For years, Andreas struggled to let go of the childhood physical and emotional abuse he suffered at the hands of his father. For him, the verbal abuse was the worst. “I would have taken a beating any day than to be told that, ‘You’re a piece of s—t,’” said Andreas, who asked we not use…
…it may be time to time to reconsider our current classification of controlled substances. Clearly we must continue to be vigilant about whether drugs pose physical harm to patients. But we could assess drugs using additional measurements, including the potential for dependence; social costs through damaged family and social life; and financial costs through health…
Civil forfeiture allows the government to deprive citizens of their property even when it doesn’t even try to prove that the citizen committed a crime. In 2014 the government took more money from citizens than burglars stole from crime victims. It’s a gigantic law-enforcement scam … and it’s a constitutional atrocity. It’s a constitutional atrocity……
She maintains that Jawara sees it as his duty to share his father’s message of equal rights and justice for all. It’s also quite clear that Niambe is carrying on Peter Tosh’s legacy. Legendary singer Peter Tosh was murdered 30 years ago, and now his son is in critical condition after allegedly being attacked while…
“It’s just so scary… Jeff Sessions and the drug war, and that we would go backwards after all this work and money,” says Ann Mithoefer, co-therapist on the ongoing MDMA-assisted psychotherapy and PTSD studies funded by MAPS, alongside her husband Michael. Though the FDA is more friendly to psychedelics than ever before, getting the approval…
Scientists, public health experts and volunteers working with them have started to show up at music festivals, concerts, raves and other public gatherings where illicit drugs are frequently used. For the first time in Britain, the more than 200,000 attendees at last year’s outdoor music festival Kendal Calling had access to a tent where their…
[I] am passionate about harm reduction We need safer injecting, more funding into harm reduction, more funding into treatment centers. Not everybody that tries it will become dependent, but those who do – they need help. The government’s ways of tackling addiction do not work. If someone came up to me and asked for a…
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