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 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…
Is it not curious? And ridiculous? And brutally tragic? How we condemn and destroy the natural spiritual enhancer/potential cure (psilocybin) , and reward, to the tune of billions of dollars to Big Pharma, the obvious poison? Saunders [mayor who launched the 2018 ballot initiative to decriminalize psilocybin) himself claims that psilocybin helped him kick heroin…
Perhaps it’s also a joke that a law-enforcement agency has the final word on a medical issue. Despite the regulatory barriers, dozens of scientists—myself included—have been engaged in research on the harms and benefits of marijuana for decades, and the evidence shows that the drug has many helpful therapeutic uses … Therapeutic benefits such…
*bio-tech universal heating oven Some Utah residents are working overtime to get medical marijuana on the state’s ballot next year. They seem to have just gotten a surprising new Republican ally in their effort – Senator Orrin Hatch The state’s senior senator – an octogenarian who is third in line for the presidency…
*China, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Vietnam, Malaysia, and Singapore —routinely execute drug offenders. An Australian politician has called for the decriminalisation of drugs in the Northern Territory, which has already decriminalised cannabis, after witnessing the successes of Portugal’s drug policy. Jeff Collins, the Assistant Minister for Police, Fire and Emergency Services in Australia’s Northern Territory (NT),…
stereotypical SSRI Dennis argues that today’s most common antidepressant medications—selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs)—are a kind of “Band-Aid solution.” He describes how psychedelics (or, “ecodelics“) can be used as an alternative treatmentfor depression and discusses why the pharmaceutical industry may not want psychedelic medicines to become a viable option for people suffering from conditions…
Saunders’ initiative seeks to exempt adults ages 21 and over from “criminal penalties and decriminalizes adult use of psilocybin,” as well as any penalties that would occur from the “possession, sale, transport and cultivation” of the drug. He believes that current changing attitudes towards legalization efforts warrant the consideration of his initiative. “What I want…
Even though Dr. Sessa is a renowned clinical psychiatrist with 20 years of experience and the backing of a respected university, it’s taken him six years to get the study off the ground. The special license required to work with controlled substances cost him nearly $40,000 and took two years to acquire. The requisite lab…
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