Medicine/Healing

Denver may get to vote on whether to make magic mushrooms legal

“There’s no reason that both shouldn’t be legalized because psilocybin or magic mushrooms are just as safe as cannabis … “We could apply lessons from cannabis legalization and apply them to psilocybin legalization,” -Neuroscientist Michele Ross The group calls itself Colorado for Psilocybin after the fungi’s scientific name. Their proposed measure would do away with…

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Right to try and the FDA’s proposed ban on kratom

And even if kratom can be dangerous, banning it violates the administration’s defense of Right to Try laws: potentially dangerous medicines are nevertheless valuable if their expected benefits exceed their risks. Doubts about effectiveness aside, the prima facie reasoning behind the FDA’s crackdown can be found in a press release from November 14, 2017, in…

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They used to get free or low-cost marijuana to help with their cancer. Not anymore.

*Legalization Gone Awry?  Where it’s even worse?  How about Lesotho, Africa?LINK The program and others like it could be forced to close due to an unlikely reason: legalization.  “Victory was built on the backs of human suffering,” said Valerie Corral, a Wo/Men’s co-founder. “Unfortunately, compassion is not financially appealing in this market.”  Ralph Trueblood of Wo/Men’s added:…

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Public health – ibogaine treatment study program

Establishing the Ibogaine Treatment Study Program in the Maryland Department of Health. Providing for the purpose of the Program; requiring the Department, on or before July 1, 2019, to select a certain number of academic medical centers to participate in the Program; requiring the Governor to include in the annual budget for fiscal years 2020…

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