For years, large tech companies, including Facebook and Google, have refused to acknowledge the legality of industrial hemp, let alone the legality of medical or recreational marijuana. Finally, Apple bucked that trend. Unlike the big headlines we’ve seen recently from Amazon, Uber, the NFL, and other mainstream, institutional businesses, showing a positively changing attitude toward…
A group of 10… Senators is co-sponsoring a new bill proposing to establish a state fund to provide military veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) free access. The full title of the legislation is the Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Alternative Therapies Fund – Establishment… (End 22 a Day), referring to the fact that an estimated 22…
…decriminalizes “the possession, use, cultivation, production, creation, analysis, giving away, and delivery by or between natural persons… psilocybin, psilocyn, ibogaine, mescaline… and dimethyltryptamine” which the Initiative refers to as “natural plants and mushrooms.” Relatedly… [questions about] a change to the definition of the term “drug paraphernalia” to specifically exclude “testing equipment, products, or materials used,…
The Oregon Psilocybin Advisory Board is considering adding conflict-of-interest disclosure requirements to its bylaws… at least two board members have formed LLCs related to psilocybin use. …the board will discuss two proposed amendments: one that would require members of the board and its subcommittees to disclose conflicts of interest more generally, and another that specifically…
…the US Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) and the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) have approved… company to cultivate Psilocybe cubensis… under their Schedule I Research License. …saves… an estimated $2.5MM annually in R&D costs associated with procuring Schedule I drug compounds from approved third-party vendors… the first vertically integrated… psilocybin… Original Article (Digital Journal):Mycrodose…
…found that… psilocybin… people… reported significantly lowered odds of having been arrested for larceny, burglary, robbery, simple assault/battery, serious violence, DUI, and miscellaneous crimes. For their new study, the researchers analyzed nationally representative data from The National Survey on Drug Use and Health, an annual survey that collects information on drug use and mental health…
The Senate Committee on Judiciary and Ballot Measure 110 Implementation last week voted to approve a bill that would divert at least $26 million over the next two years from substance abuse treatment, but now a Senate spokesman says lawmakers have changed their minds. Measure 110, which voters passed by a 17-point margin in 2020,…
Oregon’s new legal psilocybin program serves to transition psilocybin from an illegal substance into a regulated industry within the state… a gap that many saw in Measure 109… …the task force would not be permanent, SB 1580, current location in Senate Committee (Joint Committee on Ways and Means), could pave the way for a permanent…
Every single one of us, whether we identify as progressive or conservative or somewhere in between, has strong opinions about the right way to live, how to treat others, and how others should act. This is not necessarily problematic; human societies have developed and enforced their own moral codes since the earliest days of civilization.…
Baby-faced and earnest… City Council member was an assistant city attorney before he began repping… So when a group of activists approached… about decriminalizing psychedelics early in 2021, all their talk of psychoactive substances went way over his head. He’d never used magic mushrooms let alone studied the science and policy surrounding substances that, the advocates stressed,…
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