What is Religion or Belief discrimination? a. The Equality Act of 2010 says you must not be discriminated against because: b. You are (or are not) of a particular religion. c. You hold (or do not hold) a particular philosophical belief. d. Someone thinks you are of a particular religion or hold a particular belief.…
“I think philanthropy is what responsible businesses do. It’s not a choice so much as the next logical step,” Cullen said. Tim Cullen ran into an unexpected obstacle recently when he decided it was time his cannabis business should start donating money to nonprofit organizations … “I have been shocked at how few places will…
“Legalization changes everything,” Laycock said. “Religious use may not violate state law in some of these states. And if it does, legalizing recreational use but not religious use clearly discriminates against religion.” As more states ease access to marijuana, churches that offer pot as a sacrament are proliferating, competing with medical marijuana dispensaries and pot…
A body of civil law governing access to psychedelic substances does not exist yet. It is necessary to write the law. Psychedelic law is essentially a subcategory of commercial law since fundamentally psychedelic substances are just goods that travel in commerce; however, they must be considered separate and apart from other substances due to their…
“One of the implications of the continued growth of psychedelic festival culture is that the community of psychedelic users is becoming, with the help of the internet, more organised and more cohesive”. Furthermore, now this ‘spiritual movement’ has community meeting spaces, with their own rituals, traditions, codes and conventions. At these gatherings there is a very…
The careless disregard for life, and the disrespect for the dead, are the toll of the “war on drugs”. The bloody trail left by this war questions our very humanity … A 145% rise in drug-related deaths in the decade, with 450,000 deaths in 2015 alone … more than 71,000 overdose deaths in the United States…
So how do psychedelics work to help patients? The experience can change a patient’s world view, and give an addict the will and the desire to break their addiction, or someone with a terminal illness the strength to face up to death. It’s a matter of neuroscience, says [Michael] Pollan. It’s possible, he says, that…
New research provides evidence that a person’s religious beliefs can shape their experiences with psychedelic drugs like LSD and psilocybin mushrooms. The findings were published in the Journal of Psychoactive Drugs.“I became really interested in the concepts of set and setting, and this notion that, although biology is important, there is much more to the drug…
essentially a kind of ethnobotanical mid-wifery… “Ask not what soil can do for you, ask what you can do for soil. From the mind-body connection to bio-remediation of the land… …plants and fungi hold the keys to helping heal humans and this planet if we seek to invoke the wonders of science, instead of it’s terrors.” -An…
Now 20 international policymakers and stakeholders from 10 countries have outlined a number of further reforms to ensure the policy platform can work as an even better template for other countries to follow … Compulsory treatment and measures such as coerced urine testing and forced abstinence should be avoided as they adversely impact patient outcomes…
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