Healthy volunteers were injected with LSD while lying in an MRI scanner, and subjected to several other neuroimaging methods at the same time. This amounted to an arsenal of measurement that previous decades of psychedelic researchers could only dream of. Humans have gathered, cultivated, distilled, and manufactured all kinds of drugs for thousands of years.…
The news from the California Legislative Analyst’s Office was welcome by organizers of the statewide proposal, known for now as the California Psilocybin Legalization Initiative. “It’s definitely encouraging,” says Dimitric “Kitty” Merchant, co-author of the measure. “State and local governments could receive additional revenues, such as sales taxes from psilocybin sales permitted under this measure,”…
If you are a proponent of psychedelic medicine, then nearly every major finding, newspaper headline, and governmental reevaluation of recent years has been music to your ears. Initial results from studies have been breathtakingly positive … convincing an anti-drug society to accept such a radical new viewpoint, and to do so with evidence, ethics, and…
In many countries, including Switzerland, the Netherlands, Germany and Denmark, opioid treatment may include daily injections of heroin, just as a diabetic may receive daily insulin injections, along with treating the patient’s medical and psychosocial issues. These patients hold jobs, pay taxes and live long, healthy, productive lives. Yet in the U.S., such programs are…
Two decades’ worth of clinical research was first ignored and then forgotten; laboratories and careers were shut down; the War on Drugs claimed thousands of psychiatric patients as the first of its many civilian casualties. If you’ve been paying attention recently you’ll know we are in the midst of a Psychedelic Renaissance, discovering the clinical…
Most drug courts do not reduce imprisonment, do not save money or improve public safety, and ultimately fail to help people struggling with drug problems. Today’s drug courts are no more effective — but are considerably more costly — than voluntary treatment, and often leave their participants worse off for trying. Most U.S. drug courts…
The name change to honor the late author Ken Kesey took effect immediately… The name change comes two years after the city of Springfield recognized the author with a large mural of him painted on the side of a downtown building. In a related action, city councilors voted 5-2 to suspend indefinitely the request to…
Jeff Sessions wants to expand the supply of medical marijuana grown for research [He] said he wants to see “more competition” among medical marijuana growers who supply the plant to researchers, in his Wednesday morning testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee. Hatch [R-Utah] co-sponsored a piece of bipartisan legislation, the MEDS Act, which is designed…
The OLCC will allocate some of the tax revenue from licensed cannabis sales to fund teams of OLCC investigators and state police in Medford, Eugene, and Portland. There are currently two OLCC investigators and two inspectors in the Medford area, but five more inspectors will be hired to assist the investigations. The agency has increased…
Fifty-one percent of Republicans tell Gallup that, yes, marijuana should be legal, up from 42 percent last year. What has changed? Half the country has moved toward marijuana legalization in some form — with more than a half-dozen states having legalized pot for recreational use and more than dozen others having legalized medical marijuana. As…
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