“It appears they [Insys] are trying to kill a non-pharmaceutical market for marijuana in order to line their own pockets,” a spokesman for Arizona’s marijuana legalization campaign said of Insys last year … The company [Insys] last year said that it opposed the marijuana legalization measure because “it fails to protect the safety of Arizona’s…
In Oregon and Denver, where marijuana is legal for recreational use, activists are now pushing toward a psychedelic frontier: “magic mushrooms.” Tom Eckert, a Portland, Ore.-based therapist who leads the psilocybin decriminalization campaign with his wife, Sheri, said the proposed limitations on psilocybin use are important. “Psilocybin is generally safe, but it puts you in…
1. As of March 15th 2018, the Oregon Center for Public Policy (OCPP) reports that renters stand at the epicenter of Oregon’s housing crisis … LINK 2. According to the above report, one in three Oregon families struggle to afford housing. Housing instability, in turn, undermines the physical and mental health of families, as well as the ability of…
Amnesty International has listed her as a “Human Rights Defenders Under Threat” after, they claim, Duterte made her a “target of his divisive rhetoric.” … In an open act of defiance as she left the court, De Lima shouted a scathing tirade against the president, calling him a coward for pulling out of the International…
Jeff Sessions decided that perpetuating fraudulent prohibition of cannabis was not enough. Recently, he personally enabled production and sales of one of the most powerful and toxic synthetic cannabinoids ever invented [SYNDROS]. It was made by a ‘corporate person’ [INSYS] now under indictment for fraud and harming unwitting victims with one of the most powerful opioid toxins ever invented [SUBSYS].…
“Every agricultural crop has its highs and its lows,” she said. “No pun intended.” And because US federal law still prohibits cannabis, Oregon growers cannot legally sell outside the state’s borders … Tristan Reisfar works part-time for a company, High Desert Pure, that produces vapor cartridges and said he fields phone calls from desperate growers…
They didn’t run labs or spawn cults of personality… Though you wouldn’t know it from most retrospectives, many of LSD’s earliest advocates — stretching all the way back to the 1940s — were women. [For example]… On June 12 of [1943], as part of another experiment, she [Susi Ramstein… lab assistant to Albert Hofmann], became…
So he did something bold. He applied to conduct the very first clinical trial on a psychedelic since the ban a whole generation before. He wanted to give psilocybin, a naturally occurring chemical found inside “magic” mushrooms, to “respectable” citizens who had never used it before, to see if they would have a mystical experience…
The treatment’s maker, U.K. company GW Pharmaceuticals Plc, provided “substantial evidence” of the drug’s effectiveness, FDA staff said in a report released Tuesday. The medication would treat seizures associated with two rare forms of epilepsy that typically affect children, according to the report. …the medication appears to have an increased risk of liver injury… “The risk-benefit profile…
Switzerland’s relatively permissive regulations around researching LSD have helped the renewed effort to understand its medical potential. New methods, including advanced brain scanners, also give unprecedented insights into its effects. “LSD is a Baseler product,” said Matthias Liechti, a clinical pharmacologist at University Hospital Basel, who leads a research project on the effects of LSD…
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