“Nonetheless, psychedelics – including acid – have unquestionably returned to the American mainstream. One study suggests that Google searches for LSD nearly doubled between 2012 and 2014, and the amount of activity around the world – including the organization of a worldwide psychedelic community – suggests an almost undeniable psychedelic uptick.” The growing acceptance has…
“…a bold plan not only for licensed trip sitters and shamans, but goes so far as to imagine tax collection from the sale of mushrooms and MDMA, sold in plain packaging.” Anyone who’s ever been walked back from an acid-induced existential cliff can appreciate the benefit of someone who knows what to do when you’re…
“On the death of a Eugene youth at a local addiction treatment center and in the defense of ethnobotanical plants such as Iboga, Kratom, and others. When the science is ignored, the people continue to suffer.” Whenever a loved one is lost due to allegations of medical malpractice, pangs of anguish emerge. How can those we trust to care for…
“It was kratom, Ash said, that allowed her to escape the opioid epidemic. She ended up in rehab in 2011, and was weaned off her pain pills with Suboxone, a medication that itself contains opioids and can be addictive… [Another Mom] wrote… I need it so I’m not hurting, so I can be a good…
“At the end of August, the DEA threw a curve ball at kratom users, announcing plans to declare the drug a level one controlled substance — the same as heroin. But nationwide protests, tens of thousands of signatures and specific criticisms from a number of U.S. Senators has delayed action on the DEA’s proposal… the DEA [will]…
“It is no longer a fad. It is being accepted as a very different way to more safely benefit from psychedelics without any ‘psychedelic effects’,” he says. In such low doses, psychedelics should be viewed more like anti-depressants and cognitive enhancers. “Except you take them far less often.” Activating the brain: LSD affects the brain’s…
“A Grateful Dead fan who was serving a life sentence for selling LSD to a police informant is among the 111 individuals who received commutations from [The President] on Tuesday.” Timothy Tyler had no history of violence when a judge’s decision to include the weight of the paper that held the LSD he sold pushed…
A few tiny salt-like grains of fentanyl are enough to get a person high. W-18 is even more potent. B.C. addictions specialist warns against ‘mass hysteria’ but admits W-18 ‘very scary’. A B.C. addictions expert is warning people not to become hysterical about W-18, but is urging drug users to protect themselves by taking tiny…
“Marijuana reform advocates celebrated Thursday as Congress approved a spending bill amendment aiming to allow Veterans Health Administration doctors to authorize medical pot use for patients…” Wyatt says the government should pay for veterans’ medical marijuana and better track veteran suicides, and he points out that veterans living in the 26 states that do not…
“Drug overdoses now take more lives every year than traffic accidents. A lot of the time, they’re from legal drugs prescribed by a doctor. So addiction doesn’t always start in some dark alley — it often starts in a medicine cabinet.” Deaths from opioid overdoses have tripled since 2000. The good news is, there’s…
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