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…
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…
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…
The next day, I was conscious of my thoughts in a way I had never been before. I measured each thought against the promise to be kind to myself, and found that I had no choice but to change my thoughts in order to change my behaviors. The really amazing fact of the matter is,…
The U.S. Senate’s top leader [Mitch McConnell] said Monday (March 26, 2018) he wants to bring hemp production back into the mainstream by removing it from the controlled substances list… [he] told hemp advocates in his home state of Kentucky that he will introduce legislation to legalize the crop as an agricultural commodity. Hemp advocates…
[He] praised other countries for imposing the death penalty or life in prison for drug dealers Saturday, saying the United States should consider similar penalties. He said, “I think it’s a discussion we have to start thinking about. I don’t know if we’re ready — I don’t know if this country’s ready for it, Original…
Soon after Duterte was elected, dead bodies mummified in packaging tape and signed with a warning, “Drug addict. Don’t be like me,” turned up in ditches and dark corners. According to a statement released… by the Philippine Department of Finance, the [Chinese] funds will be equally divided between the Department of Health (DOH) for the…
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