*The closer you were to the recycling bin, the better your odds. This is what privilege looks like. Did you notice how the only ones who complained about fairness were in the back of the room? …for many of the researchers and psychotherapists who pioneered the early psychedelic treatments of the 1960s, it signaled something…
But when it comes to decriminalisation, said Erskine-Smith, “we’re not talking removing the criminal sanction for sale, we’re not talking removing the criminal sanction for production, as we did with cannabis.” Should the Liberals approve their resolution this week, decriminalisation would be backed by two of Canada’s three major parties. But even so, there is…
While neither kava nor kratom have been clinically tested or approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, they’ve been consumed for centuries by the cultures that discovered them — and they’re rapidly gaining popularity in the Tampa Bay area. Both are offered in dozens of bars, tobacco and electronic-cigarette shops and lounges throughout Pinellas…
On Friday, April 20th, 2018 on the unofficial marijuana holiday known as 4.20, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer announced a plan to decriminalize marijuana at the federal level. The New York Democrat’s support gives the policy a powerful voice as opinions on the substance become more favorable both with voters and within the ranks of…
*this essentially applies to psilocybin mushrooms, as well.In other words, all compassionate, sane, honest Americans should call cannabis prohibition and false classification and official lies and treasonous offenses what they are, acts of criminal fraud, state condoned terrorism, treason and hideous injustice. We should also be calling on every Attorney General and the Joint Chiefs…
So, the president wants to punish opioid dealers with the ultimate consequence. I’m astonished he’s calling for his corporate cronies to suffer the death penalty. Look out, Purdue Pharma, Teva, Cephalon, Johnson & Johnson, Janssen, Endo, Allergan, Watson, McKesson, Cardinal Health and AmerisourceBergen. Original Article (Register Guard):Big Pharma Facing Death Penalty?Artwork Fair Use: CACorrections (California…
The impact on the global cannabis community could be huge. Most of the 182 million cannabis users cited in the United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime 2017 World Drug Report live under the risk of being criminalized for their use. The WHO and UN pushing back on that trend could be a massive development.…
There’s evidence that people first used hemp fibers in the early days of human civilization. The modern-day outlawing of hemp is not of its own doing… Now the growing of industrial hemp is gaining in favor, aided by legalization of marijuana in several states. Legislators at the state and federal level are working on laws…
This document clarifies the position of UNODC to inform country responses to promote a health and human rights-based approach to drug policy. It explains that decriminalising drug use and possession for personal consumption is consistent with international drug control conventions and may be required to meet obligations under international human rights law. DOWNLOAD HERE. …
Portugal boasts one of the lowest rates of overdose deaths in the European Union. How did they do it? The streets of Lisbon, Portugal were once described as littered with syringes. During the 1990s, this southern European country roughly the size of Maine had one of the worst drug epidemics in the world. In Portugal,…
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