*bio-tech universal heating oven Some Utah residents are working overtime to get medical marijuana on the state’s ballot next year. They seem to have just gotten a surprising new Republican ally in their effort – Senator Orrin Hatch The state’s senior senator – an octogenarian who is third in line for the presidency…
*China, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Vietnam, Malaysia, and Singapore —routinely execute drug offenders. An Australian politician has called for the decriminalisation of drugs in the Northern Territory, which has already decriminalised cannabis, after witnessing the successes of Portugal’s drug policy. Jeff Collins, the Assistant Minister for Police, Fire and Emergency Services in Australia’s Northern Territory (NT),…
stereotypical SSRI Dennis argues that today’s most common antidepressant medications—selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs)—are a kind of “Band-Aid solution.” He describes how psychedelics (or, “ecodelics“) can be used as an alternative treatmentfor depression and discusses why the pharmaceutical industry may not want psychedelic medicines to become a viable option for people suffering from conditions…
Saunders’ initiative seeks to exempt adults ages 21 and over from “criminal penalties and decriminalizes adult use of psilocybin,” as well as any penalties that would occur from the “possession, sale, transport and cultivation” of the drug. He believes that current changing attitudes towards legalization efforts warrant the consideration of his initiative. “What I want…
Even though Dr. Sessa is a renowned clinical psychiatrist with 20 years of experience and the backing of a respected university, it’s taken him six years to get the study off the ground. The special license required to work with controlled substances cost him nearly $40,000 and took two years to acquire. The requisite lab…
The IRS is trying to get its hands on Colorado’s Marijuana Enforcement Tracking Reporting Compliance, or METRC, a system that follows every marijuana plant from seed to sale. The agency wants annual gross sales reports for 2014 and 2015 –but, apparently, also information about customers of Rifle Remedies. Though properly licensed in Colorado to sell…
Inside a previously unremarkable circle of grass about 10 metres in diameter, a bold new precedent for drugs policy was set in the UK. Pitched on the grass at the Secret Garden Party festival in Cambridgeshire, was a tent run by The Loop, a not for profit drug and alcohol service. For those few days…
The federal government named Logan in Queensland as its second site for its drug-testing trial of new unemployment recipients from 2018 on Wednesday, drawing the ire of the local mayor. The Victorian government slammed the program when it was announced earlier this year and Premier Daniel Andrews says his stance has not changed. “I think…
HB 2355 applies to people found with any amount of cocaine or methamphetamine under two grams, any amount of heroin under one gram, any amount of oxycodone under 40 pills, any amount of MDMA ― also known as ecstasy ― under one gram or under five pills, and any amount of LSD under 40 units…
A bill signed by Gov. Kate Brown on Tuesday (August 15th, 2017) makes personal-use possession of cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine and other drugs a misdemeanor, not a felony. Oregon joined just a handful of other U.S. states in defelonizing drugs under the new law, which was supported by law enforcement groups and takes effect immediately. Original…
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