At this moment in time, the momentum seems to be moving in ECfES’ favor, toward a society that sees potential in psychedelics as a healing modality. “A good example of that is Kate Brown’s decision to sign HB 2355, a bill carried to the upper chamber by Sen. Jackie Winters, the longest-serving African-American woman in Oregon Senate…
Drug decriminalization is a rational and fiscally sound policy rooted in health and human rights. Governments throughout the U.S. and around the world have an indisputable moral and scientific imperative to pursue it. Not only does drug decriminalization drastically reduce the number of people mired in the quicksand of the criminal justice system – it…
Narcotics Control Board calls for decriminalisation of narcotic drug use. The Deputy Executive Secretary of the Narcotics Control Board (NACOB) [in Ghana, Africa], Mr Michael Addo, has called for the decriminalisation of narcotic drug use. The six-day programme brought together lawyers, prosecutors, officials from drug enforcement agencies, psychologists, students and civil society organisations from Anglophone…
Diplomacy or Denialism: The language that the UNGASS (United Nations General Assembly Special Session on the “World Drug Problem”) of 2016 Outcome Document overlooked… Noting the…Reaffirming…Recognising…Also recognising that…Recalling that …Also recalling…Acknowledging that …Consider…Highlight…Undertake…Include…Ensure that…Eliminate…Highlight…Declare…Warn…Commit that…End…Commit too…Promote…Take Account…Recognize that…Request…Realign…Commit…Review…Address…Implement… Original Article:Diplomacy or Denialism: The language that the UNGASS Outcome Document overlooked Artwork Fair Use: Jayel Aheram
“Someone’s not getting the primary memo: left to ugly influences such as [pure, unbridled] capitalism & market forces, our sacred medicines will all be assimilated and desacralized by Pharma—which has an almost perfect track record of choosing profits over people & planet.” -An ECfES Board Member Whereas, in August of 2018, Newsweek Reports the FDA approves psychedelic…
Your right to education; conservation & liberation of endangered and historically significant ethnobotanicals. Original Article (ECfES Newsletter):Magic mushrooms… entourage effect(citations within)Artwork Fair Use: Public Domain
The first state-level drug decriminalization bill Has been introduced by in Maryland, USA…where elected officials and a broad range of stakeholders [convened] on a forum on decriminalization. [H.B. 488 : Drug Use and Possession Penalty Changes], [H.B. 515 : Substance Use Treatment at Need in ERs and Hospitals], and [H.B. 519 : Safe Consumption Programs].…
Party members in Canada overwhelmingly vote for decriminalizing drugs. It’s likely a first for North America. The City of Vancouver, BC has officially recommended that the Government of Canada “immediately” decriminalize the personal possession of all drugs, including hard drugs like cocaine and heroin. Decriminalization is a relatively simple process. It would involve removing sections…
South America 1599 – To ensure the legality of their deeds, before each military action Velon’s captains read aloud in the presence of a notary pubilc the famous Requirement, a standard legal document exhorting the heathen to accept the true faith. United States 2007-2017 -Since 2007, The United States DEA has taken 32 billion in cash from people…
The fact that the hippie has been sacrificed in scientific analysis for the determination of medical properties of an alleged panacea tells us an important quality of our science – that science is underpinned by relationships of power, and true knowledge, knowledge of what is essential, is undermined by that very companionship. Note : Elder is…
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