The recreational and medicinal markets are far more intertwined than many are aware. As so often happens… we have seen this phenomenon with cannabis and opioids, and it now appears to be happening with psychedelics. A recent survey found that less than 34 per cent of Canadians who reported using psychedelics did so to self-medicate…
The Massachusetts ballot measure is much more similar to the one that passed two years ago in Colorado… the campaign Massachusetts for Mental Health Options (MMHO) has now submitted another 14,000 signatures to secure ballot placement… “The Natural Psychedelic Substances Act”… [Initiative 23-13 (Version A) 23-14 (Version B)]… The Massachusetts ballot measure sets up a…
“Defendant OHA’s (Oregon Health Authority’s) refusal to allow accommodations has placed disabled and terminally ill individuals where they would only be able to access needed services by turning to underground sources,” it continues. “For many terminally ill individuals, this means that they will die without having access to psilocybin services that would have substantially benefited…
AMA delegates voted in favor of the decriminalization proposal, 345-171 [on Wednesday, June 12, 2024]. The body is calling for the “elimination of criminal penalties for drug possession for personal use as part of a larger set of related public health and legal reforms designed to improve carefully selected outcomes.” …the board did recommend adopting…
A year in, Oregon’s experiment with the first regulated psilocybin mushroom market in the world is short on customers. …a year of challenges, red tape and waning interest in guided mushroom trips under Oregon’s… legal model… to date, roughly 3,500 clients [from primarily out-of-state] have taken a supervised trip in one of Oregon’s 25 psilocybin…
An independent advisory panel of the Food and Drug Administration rejected the use of MDMA-assisted therapy for post-traumatic stress disorder on Tuesday [6/4/2024]. While the vote is not binding on the F.D.A., the agency often follows the recommendations of its advisory panels. Members of an independent scientific advisory committee voted 9 to 2 that human…
…its religious exemptions petition process says the United States Government Accountability Office… The process and reported barriers that exist in the legal access and use of psilocybin for religious practices under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993… According to DEA officials, in 2019, DEA initiated the drafting of a notice of proposed rulemaking related…
…expensive…. an individual session can cost $1,200 for an individual and $750 for a group… …roughly 3,500 people have received psilocybin… [through service centers] in Oregon in the past year [many users of Oregon’s legal psilocybin program aren’t Oregonians at all, a major percentage of people accessing the services are traveling from out of state…
Earl Bluemenauer, a long-time advocate for marijuana legalization for decades, said he thinks the U.S. policy needs to end the hybridization of state and federal rules of the current system… Blumenauer said he hopes the rule change will lead to enough holdouts reversing course for the Safer Banking Act to pass, which would deschedule marijuana…
The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration will move to reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous drug, The Associated Press has learned, a historic shift to generations of American drug policy that could have wide ripple effects across the country… Cannabis is currently classified along with drugs like heroin and LSD. The administration is expected to reschedule…
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