“It was interesting science but there was no pathway to patients,” Malievskaia said …”We got to the point when the signals were too strong to ignore. The need was too great. So we decided to put our skills together to accelerate patient access to psilocybin.” Many small studies have linked psilocybin to improvements in mental…
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…
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…
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…
*Nixon resigns as President speech A new Manhattan federal lawsuit against Jeff Sessions, the DOJ and the Drug Enforcement Agency … The suit challenges the constitutionality of the 1970 Controlled Substance Act that classifies marijuana as a dangerous substance, in the same category as heroin or LSD. “Classifying cannabis as a ‘Schedule I drug’ is…
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