Brian Paddick worked for London’s Metropolitan Police from 1976 to 2007 and acted as police spokesman following the terrorist attacks on the city in 2005. Research shows that 9% of people who use cannabis in their lifetime find themselves addicted to it at some point, compared to 15% who become addicted to alcohol and 32%…
I have never taken drugs other than alcohol, nicotine, caffeine and medicinal drugs. Of these, I have for many years not taken the two former. I think it is inimical to a good life to be dependent for pleasure and personal fulfilment on substances which gloss or distort reality and interfere with rationality; and yet…
She plans to give 20 participants low doses of LSD or a placebo, and scanning their brains while they perform a range of cognitive tasks. Before it was made illegal in 1968, Ms Feilding would take LSD to boost her creativity, and even found that her performace in the ancient Chinese game of Go, improved.…
The government hopes the state-grown pot will “guarantee the quality and the purity of the product” citizens consume. “Cannabis will be dispensed in pharmacies starting in the month of July,” president of the National Drug Board, Juan Andres Roballo, told a press conference Thursday. Original Article (High Times):First country in the world authorizes countries to…
“My order is shoot to kill you. I don’t care about human rights, you better believe me.” Duterte has viciously defended his “drug war” as a success, and accused the most prominent opponent of the killings ― Philippine Senator Leila de Lima ― of being involved in the drug trade herself. Duterte has also…
That total does not include the dollar value of other seized assets, like cars, homes, electronics and clothing. These seizures are all legal under the controversial practice of civil asset forfeiture, which allows authorities to take cash, contraband and property from people suspected of crime. But the practice does not require authorities to obtain a…
At 28, he is living with quite severe mental health problems – “depression and anxiety as a result of childhood trauma, that led to borderline personality disorder and PTSD”. He says the prescription medication he has been given results in more side-effects than benefits. “I’ve found that these substances, psychedelics, give me the benefits without…
Former drug czars from a more militant drug policy era have been publicly agitating to “bring back the war on drugs.” Asked about marijuana legalization last fall, Marino [new drug tzar] told a reporter that…“the only way I would agree to consider legalizing marijuana is if we had a really in depth-medical scientific study… he…
A growing movement of people are ‘microdosing’ LSD in the morning – taking 10-15 micrograms, instead of the larger doses used for drug trips – and claim that it can cure anxiety and insomnia. ‘Like many people, I often find myself scrolling aimlessly through Facebook when I tell myself I’m too tired for anything else.…
“Continued, much less intensified, enforcement of marijuana prohibition would be a tragedy. The drug war has created more than enough societal disasters, both domestically and internationally, since Nixon launched that initiative. Millions of Americans have had their lives disrupted and acquired the stigma of a criminal record for doing nothing more than choosing to use…
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