A 63-year-old man named Paul Lee Corbett believed the specimen he discovered was an unidentified subspecies, and he hoped to study and analyze it in detail later… Corbett maintains that he did not commit a crime. The mushrooms in question were large and red, growing in a wood chip pile. There was a sign…
“Our goal is to educate in an effort to be proactive rather than reactive,” a spokesperson for Kratom Community Grassroots, a nonprofit advocacy organization, told HuffPost. “Many legislators are leaving office with new Representatives and staff taking their place. Educating will be an ongoing endeavor to increase awareness and maintain our access to kratom.” The…
*Putin : previously a KGB agent What was the United Nations UNGASS 2016 (United Nations General Assembly on the World Drug Problem) about, and how did Russia emerge as the “new global leader” on the “war on some drugs” thereafter? After-all, central to Russia’s interventions was an insistence that the words “harm reduction” not be included…
For decades, Beal has been a proponent of ibogaine, a substance, derived from an African shrub, that’s been illegal in the U.S. since 1969 because of its hallucinogenic properties. Beal considers it a superior cure for addiction to heroin and other hard drugs. He said he has received “donations in the form of marijuana” to…
Thousands of protesters burnt an effigy of Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte at the gates of the Presidential Palace in Manila on Sunday, to denounce his ‘tyrannical rule’. Marchers called on the Philippine Government to stop extra judicial killings and other human rights violations in the country’s ongoing war on drugs. The demonstration was timed to…
“We have heard from many constituents who have used kratom to successfully end their dependence on dangerous opioids, and maintaining legal access to kratom is important for many Americans to maintain sobriety.” “The beneficial potential, safety, and efficacy of kratom has been discussed, studied, clinically researched and found to be as safe as coffee,” states…
Kratom is no more addicting than everyone’s morning cup of coffee to get their day started (for the overwhelming majority). “I’m a kratom user and have been since 2012. I have a regimen of 5 grams of kratom followed by a cup of coffee every morning … If the perception is it’s addicting, then we should ban coffee or…
“There’s absolutely no way Canada would be in this position right now as far as taking steps to legalise had it not been for the work that the activists did ” -Derek Ogden, who spent more than 25 years with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, including as head of the force’s drug squad. Former British…
A top government official shrugged off allegations of rampant human right violations including the alarming rise in extra-judicial killings and described President Rodrigo “Rody” Duterte’s bloody war on illegal drugs as “hugely successful.” “I think the communities are safer and our young people are better protected against drugs,” Roque said even as he expressed…
One of them is Compass Pathways, a for-profit company that Silicon Valley entrepreneur Peter Thiel invested in last year. London-based entrepreneur Christian Angermayer, ex-hedge fund manager Mike Novogratz, and film producer Sam Englebardt are also backers of Compass … It has some notable advisors, including Tom Insel, the former director of the US National Institute…
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