[National Institute of Drug Abuse Director] Dr. Nora Volkow’s remarks about marijuana apply with equal force to psilocybin. As research continues to reveal the promise of psilocybin… and as more U.S. jurisdictions diverge from federal law to relax and/or eliminate criminal penalties for psilocybin… Importantly… psilocybin… will move forward with or without the federal government……
After local legislators passed that decriminalization resolution in 2020, the Washtenaw County prosecutor announced that his office will not be pursuing charges over possessing entheogenic plants and fungi, “regardless of the amount at issue.” Michigan activists have filed a statewide ballot initiative that would legalize possessing, cultivating and sharing psychedelics and set up a system for their…
…microdosing psychedelics is technically not substance misuse because it does not involve taking drugs in excess or for an unintended purpose. The practice of microdosing psychedelics dates back to at least the early 16th century… to relieve fevers and rheumatism. The accepted definition of substance misuse is the use of prescription, illegal drugs, or over-the-counter drugs or…
Known as the Systematically Testing the Evidence on Marijuana… the project is a joint production of researchers with Oregon Health & Science University’s (OHSU) Center for Evidence-based Policy and the Veterans (VA) Portland Health Care System. …designed as an independent, methodologically rigorous resource primarily for health care workers. The site features living systematic reviews that…
Psychedelic therapy appeared associated with large acute and sustained reductions in suicidality, according to results of a meta-analysis published in the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry. From an initial pool of more than 9,900 records… results showed that psychedelic therapy led to marked decreases in suicidality in both relatively short (80 to 240 minute) intervals, as well as in…
Mother’s Therapy doesn’t present de Lattre’s mother’s experience as a model to emulate. Instead, the photographer feels it should be viewed as both a visual account of how people react to despair, and as a testimony to how much a mother wanted her life back. His mother has recently cut ties with her former psychiatrist to…
Bansal was as surprised as anyone. “Had somebody told me going into this that I would come out a transformed being or a person with a completely different perspective on life, I would never have believed it.” “It’s as if there is a part of me that is watching myself objectively, going through the painful…
Let’s face it, for the past half a century the US has been in a REAL hot war, a “forever war” against cannabis, a war against Americans on American soil. Here’s another big number: 545,602 That’s the of number of Americans arrested for cannabis related crimes in 2019… that’s more cannabis arrests than for all…
The majority of exploited children are groomed using alcohol and drugs… not only does this provide a form of control for those doing the grooming, it ensures that their career of drug use has an early start. For some children this will be an introduction to drugs they have never used, and for others their…
It’s a long bow to draw. To suggest that people who use illicit drugs are sinners by proxy, and that they automatically inherit the moral debt of those who may or may not have manufactured the product they’re consuming, is not dissimilar to saying that individuals who use Apple products should be vilified for supporting…
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