A healthcare investment firm that’s backing studies of “magic mushrooms” to treat depression raised $25m of capital… …already in talks with banks about a potential listing in Canada next year, a step for which it seeks a valuation of $800m or more, according to one of the people familiar with the matter. After being shunned…
“Look what I brought for show-and-tell today.” … “Has he tried to eat anyone’s face yet?” … “I wish we could show this to his girlfriend like, ‘You love this?” -Three Oregon deputies’ on cellphone videos while an inmate was in a padded jail cell and flailing around uncontrollably from a drug overdose. Perry [an Iraqi veteran] arrived…
Fentanyl-laced or “particularly pure,” fentanyl, or furanyl fentanyl [are the three substances apparently causing the overdoses, according to interviews conducted by the Register Guard]. [Furanyl fentanyl] was… made illegal in November 2016. Similar to heroin and morphine, but is a hundred times more potent, produces a longer-lasting high and is more difficult to treat if a person overdoses, the…
*then— a landscape in ancient Britain …[plants] are reliable and effective because they implement the findings of neuroscience and supplement… our humanist discourse about self-development and agency. In using… we become transhuman hybrid beings who build tools into the regulatory plant of the body. One question to ask then is: How many individuals have found,…
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…
“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…
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…
The documents were supposed to be routine updates on the status of a large amount of kratom that had been seized under the FDA’s Import Alert in 2016 The FDA staff, who are required by law to be fair, objective, and free from bias — showed they are horribly biased against kratom. In fact, these…
“Even when you think you’re doing better, all it takes is one bad batch of fentanyl in any state and you’re going to have deaths,” said Mark Levine, a physician and the health commissioner of Vermont, which has made major investments in addiction treatment but still experienced a spike in deaths in 2016. Last year,…
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