Within just one year, the area used to cultivate poppies in Afghanistan has increased to 420,000 hectares from 328,000 in just one year. This, along with improved opium yields, has increased global opium production by 65 percent in 2017. 10,500 tonnes of opium were produced in 2017 — the highest since the UNODC first began…
The response to the Observer’s F.O.I. request showed that it was not just prison officers sneaking in the items, but also health workers, trainers and other support staff. Drugs were found 13,119 times in prisons in England and Wales last year, the paper said – the equivalent of more than 35 incidents per day and…
FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb started the interview by explaining that the FDA has approved synthetic versions of cannabinoids and pharmaceutical-grade derivatives of marijuana—and arguing that those products are preferable to using botanical cannabis for medical purposes. When the conversation turned to federal marijuana laws, Gottlieb drew a stark contrast between legalization and decriminalization… “Well, you know, there’s…
“They tried to kill me, I feel like, but it didn’t work.” … Tyler was arrested in 1992 and convicted in 1994 for selling LSD and cannabis to a police informant … [he spent 26 years in prison] … life after commutation was not easy for Tyler. He described his time in the mandatory residential drug abuse…
Sackler is listed as one of six inventors on the patent for a new formulation of buprenorphine, a highly effective medication for treating opioid addiction. Buprenorphine is already available as a pill and film, but the new version would be a wafer that may dissolve even faster. By encouraging greater use of opioids for all…
Lukman did not profit from this, and would provide cannabis oil for free to patients who could not afford it. Lukman, a 29-year-old father of one, provided cannabis oil to patients who were suffering from ailments that were difficult to treat with legal medicines … Despite Lukman’s lawyers’ plea for a reduced sentence, his mitigation was…
“Someone’s not getting the primary memo: left to ugly influences such as [pure, unbridled] capitalism & market forces, our sacred medicines will all be assimilated and desacralized by Pharma—which has an almost perfect track record of choosing profits over people & planet.” -An ECfES Board Member Whereas, in August of 2018, Newsweek Reports the FDA approves psychedelic…
South America 1599 – To ensure the legality of their deeds, before each military action Velon’s captains read aloud in the presence of a notary pubilc the famous Requirement, a standard legal document exhorting the heathen to accept the true faith. United States 2007-2017 -Since 2007, The United States DEA has taken 32 billion in cash from people…
South America 1599 – Marching inland, [Governer of Santa Marta] Juan Guiral Velon attempted to vanquish an entire civilization [Tairona]. In the midst of the carnage, the Spaniards never forgot their ultimate mission. United States 2018 – Jeff Sessions Drug War “Power Grab” Bill, SITSA, if passes, would give him have unchecked power to ban drugs [and plants] and…
Hawk, an Emergency Department physician with Yale New Haven Hospital, said that the drug that caused the overdoses was K2* laced with fentanyl.*K2 “a big potpourri” of potentially dangerous drugs. “There’s so much garbage that’s being sold and you can call it whatever you want to call it. Even the drug dealers don’t know.” -Dr.…
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