…this young man first learned of a drug called MDMA, still legal at the time. Little did he realize that this would be the beginning of a lifelong quest to legitimize a drug in the eyes of a world in which it would soon become taboo. This journey would take over 35 years … Once…
LSD and psilocybin are not creations of the sixties. Psilocybin, the chemical in magic mushrooms, has been used in the Americas going back at least a thousand years, and possibly a lot more, as part of religious rituals. It may be that these chemicals are where we developed our religious impulse. Our sense that there…
“We’ve never had any interest in One East Broadway,” Chris Woods, chief executive for Terrapin Care Station in Boulder, Colo., said. A Colorado-based marijuana company will indeed open a pot retail store in downtown Eugene, but it won’t be at the location the company initially announced. Terrapin Care Station on Thursday said that on Tuesday…
A Colorado marijuana company said it plans to buy a building in the heart of downtown Eugene, across from Kesey Square, and open a pot shop there. The prominence of the building — at the crossroads of Willamette and Broadway — is exactly why Boulder, Colo.-based Terrapin Care Station wants the property, Peter Marcus, spokesman…
“It was because of me that organized crime was getting nasty. I was developing the tactics.” … “I used to risk my life doing the work because I used to believe I was doing good,” said Woods. “Now I realize everything I did only caused harm.” The former police officer was a pioneer in his…
As politicians, health authorities and first responders try to get a handle on Alberta’s opioid crisis, new figures released by the province show there was a significant uptick in the number of carfentanil deaths in 2017 from the year before. Just last week, the Alberta College of Physicians and Surgeons published a letter about the…
The Department of Justice (DOJ) alleges that the executives took part in a “nationwide conspiracy” to give healthcare providers kickbacks in exchange for the improper prescribing of Subsys—an opioid medication containing the highly addictive substance fentanyl, which is considered even more dangerous than painkillers like Vicodin. “As alleged, top executives of Insys Therapeutics, Inc. paid…
Accused of bribing doctors to prescribe a spray version of the opioid fentanyl intended to treat cancer pain, often to patients without cancer… Subsys is meant to provide pain relief to cancer patients who are going through particularly excruciating pain episodes. It’s reserved for these neediest of patients due to its potency and addictive qualities.…
After sexual violence left her struggling with PTSD, Egbert said, “mushrooms gave me the feeling that I’m worth something. It’s like a restart.” And when Egbert started reaching out across Colorado in recent weeks, she was in for a surprise. Turns out, her group wasn’t the only one working toward a vote on mushrooms. There…
‘You can’t stop it so what you have to do is regulate the use.” ‘If they had known it was however strong; had they known it was 80mg in that particular pill for instance, they might have taken one or two. There’s no way they would have taken the whole lot.’ What he is proposing…
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