Immediately after the kidnapping, Schoefield and others who knew Smith took to social media, asking for help from anyone who knew the beloved barber-turned-budtender from Toledo, Ohio. The three suspects have not been identified by police. The man and woman who entered the store were captured by the store’s surveillance cameras, which police have…
“A few hundred micrograms–the weight of a single grain of salt–are enough to trigger heroin-like bliss,” writes the Globe and Mail. “But the line between euphoria and fatal overdose is frighteningly thin: An amount the size of two grains of salt can kill a healthy adult.” “The RCMP [Royal Canadian Mounted Police] issued a warning…
Steve Jobs and Bill Gates both experiment[ed] with [LSD]. Kerry Mullis, who won a Nobel prize in chemistry for his development in the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) (turning a single segment of DNA into millions of identical copies), said that the large amount of LSD he took in the 1960’s and 1970’s was “much more…
The clinical trial that saved Rachel Hope’s life was the result of a half-century of work by Rick Doblin, the founder of MAPS. Since he was 18, Doblin has hoped to open a psychedelic clinic, and estimates it’ll still take about another decade before he gets there. “Maybe by the time I’m 70 I’ll be…
California is one of eight states where voters have legalized marijuana for recreational use, and Saunders said legalizing psilocybin-bearing mushrooms is the logical next step. The measure is backed by a legalization activist who says he kicked his heroin habit with the help of a mushroom trip in Death Valley. It would exempt Californians over…
The change in attitudes will be seen as a further step towards decriminalisation and follows claims by drug experts that police forces across Britain are quietly turning a blind eye to cannabis use in order to focus their attentions on more pressing priorities. Those caught smoking or cultivating the drug on a small scale in…
Kevin Saunders, running for Mayor of Marina, California, has proposed a ballot measure that would decriminalize psilocybin for adults over 21-years-old. Saunders claimed the mushrooms helped him kick his heroin addiction 15 years ago. At least 365,880 verified signatures in support of the measure would need to be collected before it could appear on California’s…
In both agencies [Marines & Police], I was highly praised, awarded, and promoted very quickly, always the youngest everywhere I went. I was the youngest Sergeant in FAST, youngest detective in major case narcotics and youngest Sergeant in BPD. I’ve completed over 300 training courses with collegiate credit, innumerable others training events, and I earned…
Thousands of demonstrators have taken to the streets of the Philippine capital of Manila to denounce President Rodrigo Duterte’s war on drugs… Amid public pressure, Duterte said on Monday there could have been abuses in his anti-drug war policy. “There is a possibility that in some of police incidents there could be abuses. I admit…
A horrifying image of a schoolboy being dragged to a violent death in a dirty alleyway has galvanised the Philippines against a brutal state-led war on drugs that has killed over 12,500 people in the last year. His killing last week has united the public, senior politicians and the Catholic Church into the most significant…
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