CARERS stands for Compassionate Access, Research Expansion, and Respect States. The original version of the bill would have ended the drug war, at least with regard to cannabis. This latest version is softer. First, CARERS would change the Controlled Substances Act to allow states to make their own medical cannabis laws. States already do…
This year, multiple lawsuits have been launched against opioid manufacturers and distributors. With the opioid crisis now having resulted in more than 300,000 deadly opioid overdoses since 1999 (greater than the population of Cincinnati), there’s a push to hold accountable the people and companies behind the products that spawned the epidemic. Original Article (Vox):US officials…
“You need not wait for Supreme Court censure before reforming these practices, and, in any event, the Department of Justice should err on the side of protecting constitutional rights” Suspicion of the confiscations has created unusual alliances among liberals, libertarians, and conservatives, which is reflected in the list of senators on the letter. The ACLU…
The lethal opiod [fentanyl] has been popping up in unexpected drugs [bought on the black market]. “Everywhere, it’s been in every drug we’ve been testing,” says Aasen. Health experts says testing drugs has never been so important…In the last two months, about 70 percent of the popular party drug MDMA came up positive for fentanyl.…
We believe people who use psychedelics shouldn’t be vulnerable to criminal punishment—and we want to build a world where legal psychedelics make sense… it’s incumbent upon people who care about psychedelics to work toward ending the criminalization of people who use them outside of medical contexts, while also advocating for psychedelic-assisted therapy research. This legacy…
Employers will have to review and amend existing workplace policies and procedures once the Cannabis Act comes into force. This legal change may also require a social shift away from traditional views on the recreational use of marijuana. One key change will include removing any express policy references to marijuana usage as an illegal “off-duty”…
Hundreds of thousands of people identified as drug users… are held without due process in centers where they may be subjected to torture, and physical and sexual violence in the name of “treatment”. Individuals in drug detention centers… are commonly held against their will. They are picked up by police, or “volunteered” by local authorities…
The aim, she says, is to offer a space for thoughtful integration—or the mental processing of a psychedelic experience long after the effects of a drug have worn off. It’s an aspect of psychedelic experimentation that’s often overlooked in mainstream culture, but that devotees say is equally as important (if not more important) than the…
If psilocybin or LSD can reduce DMN activity, it stands to reason that it might help those patients feel better. “People get locked into these very negative loops of thinking and feeling,” says Dr. Stephen Ross, an addiction psychiatrist at NYU who led the recent study on psilocybin. “It’s possible that by deactivating these kind…
Mark another milestone in the mainstreaming of marijuana: One of the world’s largest and oldest organizations for developing technical standards is now making space for the pot business. Originally founded in 1898 to work out testing and material standards for the steel used on railroad lines, the organization soon branched out beyond steel, debating and…
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