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National Institutes of Health Director (NIH) praises psychedelics’ potential as therapeutic treatment…

Francis Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) expressed positive remarks about the therapeutic potential of psychedelics such as psilocybin and MDMA. “I think as we’ve learned more about how the brain works we began to realize that these are potential tools for research purposes and might be clinically beneficial,” Collins said. The…

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Sackler family empire [& 160 financial trusts, 170+ companies] … immunity from opioid lawsuits

Appearing before a congressional panel… December [2020], members of the Sackler family said they had done nothing wrong. “The family and the board acted legally and ethically,” testified David Sackler, who served on Purdue Pharma’s board for six years. This development brings members of the Sackler family, some of whom own Purdue Pharma and served on…

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Aspen City Council… decriminalizing psychedelics

Ultimately, councilors did not direct staff to draft a resolution… According to DEA, Schedule I substances “are defined as drugs with no currently accepted medical use and a high potential for abuse.” Original Article (Aspen Daily News):Psychedelic drugs will follow pot’s path to legalizationArtwork Fair Use: Mike Schmid

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[Human & ecological rights embedded in the universal declaration of rights & united states constitution missing in recent]… drug policy reform

…What’s your take on city resolutions such as Decrim Nature or the Plant Medicine Healing Alliance? [Anthony Johnson]: I support anything that moves the issue forward and educates people. My one caveat [about Decrim Nature and the Plant Medicine Healing Alliance] is I don’t want anybody to possess larger amounts of these drugs [in Oregon] than…

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DEA report shows marijuana arrests and seizures up in 2020

The data in the DEA report… showed that nearly 5,000 arrests for federal marijuana-related offenses were made by law enforcement officers in 2020. That figure is up… over 2019 when 4,718 arrests for federal marijuana crimes were made by agents.  U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency shows that federal law enforcement agents and their state and local…

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The true story of MK-Ultra and the CIA…

 An unknown number of such scientists — who according to the Nuremberg criteria should have been punished for crimes against humanity after 1945 — received a new life in the United States in return for information. Whenever a scientist had a “blemished” past, as Kinzer observes, US officials rewrote his biography, systematically expunging “references to…

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Birmingham to pardon 15,000 with marijuana convictions

The pardons will eliminate convictions for marijuana possession from criminal records from 1990 through 2020 but do not affect pending cases, said a news release. A pardon also does not cancel fines, fees or other costs linked to a marijuana conviction. “Reforming policy surrounding cannabis not only serves our state in producing hundreds of millions…

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Stay trippin’

…used the relatively new tactic of testing the amount of the active ingredient psilocybin in hallucinogenic mushrooms, much in the same way marijuana is now tested for THC, as a way to bring a host of communities involved in mushroom cultivation, decriminalization of hallucinogens and the legalization of all drugs, together. …decriminalization, community and citizen…

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