Politics

DEA psychedelics ban to undergo rare legal hearings…

Researchers and advocates scored a procedural victory… in their fight against the Drug Enforcement Administration’s (DEA)… the fact that cannabis and other entheogenic substance remain Schedule I drugs – meaning the agency determined it has no medical value and a high abuse potential – has particularly called into question DEA’s judgment in these matters. Not…

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Politics

Paralysis… psilocybin plan…

…Oregon has to strike a delicate balance between keeping patients safe, allowing businesses to operate and respecting people’s individual rights. It would be ideal if people could buy their own psilocybin products, know exactly what’s in them, take them home, and use them as they wish, potentially in trusted company. Allowing home grow is also…

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Biography/Memoir

No… settlement… opioid claims… [and Sackler family]

[The Department of Justice is fighting to strip the billionaire Sackler family of the sweeping legal immunity… according to Forbes, the Sackler family made $12 billion to $13 billion in profit from OxyContin manufacturer Purdue Pharma – much more than what was previously known, according to the Wall Street Journal, citing court records.] [Attorney General…

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Psychology

Drug euphoria [can be a] good thing, actually

 Like addiction medicine as a whole… only acknowledged euphoria as a risk factor for addiction, as if something with a notably positive connotation could have only a negative outcome… actually say that this is not for an abstinence-based goal of ‘getting people off drugs.’ This is about giving regulated supply for them to use in…

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Biography/Memoir

…open criminal investigation into Sackler family members

…urging the Department of Justice to open an investigation into whether members of the Sackler family personally engaged in criminal conduct in connection with Purdue Pharma’s role in the opioid epidemic. The Sacklers owned Purdue, which manufactured the powerful opioid OxyContin. The drug is widely seen as one of the spurs of an opioid epidemic…

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Biography/Memoir

…senators to urge DOJ to investigate Sackler family members for role in fueling opioid epidemic

U.S. Senators Ron Wyden (OR), Tammy Baldwin (WI), Richard Blumenthal (CT), Edward J. Markey (MA), Maggie Hassan (NH), Elizabeth Warren (MA), and Joe Manchin (WV) in calling on the Department of Justice (DOJ) to investigate… …whether members of the Sackler family personally engaged in criminal conduct in connection with Purdue Pharma’s admitted criminal wrongdoing in…

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Politics

…in Oregon

This much is certain: The trip will cost you… the Oregon Psilocybin Society said, “…. this novel approach could help alleviate the mental health crisis here in Oregon by addressing costly epidemics like suicide, treatment-resistant depression and anxiety, PTSD, and addiction to drugs, alcohol, and nicotine.” The price tag… a single seven-hour “…dosing session” could…

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Science

Scientists create cell-based… potential 5-meo-dmt “bio-factory”

You can’t blame people for wanting the expansive and often life-changing jolt that 5-MeO-DMT can deliver. But this kind of transcendence comes at a cost. The practice of collecting defensive secretions from toad parotoid glands isn’t a pretty sight. It often involves harassment of the animal that leads to mutilating them and destruction of their habitats.…

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Psychology

Study shreds cannabis ‘amotivational syndrome’ theory

 Does cannabis actually make people lazy in the long run? A new study published in Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology – a peer-reviewed scientific journal published by the American Psychological Association – disputes the cannabis-induced amotivational syndrome theory, instead finding no evidence to support it. Original Article (High Times):Study shreds cannabis ‘amotivational syndrome’ theoryArtwork Fair Use:…

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