SITSA will not be added to the other opioid legislation. With thousands of emails and phone calls flooding Capitol Hill, [the outpouring of action from the kratom community.} you sent a loud message to lawmakers that they needed to oppose SITSA – and your voices were heard. Original Article (American Kratom Association):Sitsa…stoppedArtwork Fair Use: Alvesgaspar
*What’s striking is the alleviation of depression occurs from emotional receptivity being enhanced – the opposite of SSRI antidepressants. Despite the recent renaissance of psychedelic science, psilocybin still languishes on the DEA’s “Schedule I” – a kind of political prison for drugs which, according to the DEA, have “no therapeutic value” and a “high potential…
” I agree with everything Trevor said but there is unfortunately a complication which is to a surprising degree you can’t always trust what scientists say … This is definitely an area where we need informed, intelligent, lay people also to be perceived to have a very legitimate voice in the debate.” -Terence Kealey : Senior Fellow at Cato…
British Sugar grows cannabis under a licence from the Home Office [of the UK], which they sell to GW Pharmaceuticals to make its new CBD based medicine, Epidiolex. The managing director of British Sugar is Paul Kenward, husband of the Home Office minister with responsibility for drugs, Victoria Atkins. Since this was widely publicised she…
“Sackler Crossing” at British Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew (The Sacklers, known mostly for philanthropy before the opioid epidemic, deny fueling a crisis that killed 42,000 people in 2016.) A billionaire [Richard Sackler] accused of worsening the opioid crisis just won a patent for a drug to treat opioid addiction. “It’s reprehensible what Purdue Pharma has…
Spokesman Bob Josephson said the [State of Oregon] was inappropriately substituting its judgment for the judgment of experts at U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum charged that Purdue has engaged in racketeering and misleading activity over the last decade. A spokesman at Purdue Pharma, Robert Josephson (who describes himself on LinkedIN as “deep and rich…
…a key tenet of the MDL (Model Drug Law) is to end all criminal penalties relating to personal drug use and possession, as such criminalisation causes wide-ranging health problems for people who use drugs – and society more broadly … Decriminalisation of personal drug possession exists in some form in over a dozen countries and has led…
[All] problems won’t disappear with decriminalization, but measures such as drug-checking are facilitated and, if safety of supply becomes a priority, governments can opt to legalize and regulate, as they are doing with cannabis. When possession of drugs is a crime, it creates giant barriers to harm reduction and treatment. First and foremost, it means…
Brooklyn moving forward with expungement of past records builds on momentum in other cities around the country. “It’s a little unfair to say we’re no longer prosecuting these cases, but to have these folks carry these convictions for the rest of their lives,” -Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez Original Article (Drug Policy Alliance):Brooklyn District Attorney Eric…
The White House has secretly amassed a committee of federal agencies from across the government to combat public support for marijuana and cast state legalization measures in a negative light, while attempting to portray the drug as a national threat, according to interviews with agency staff and documents Staff believe that if the administration is…
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