The signing of the bill follows a 250 to 169 vote in the House of Representatives yesterday [Tuesday, May 29th, 2018), and a unanimous vote in the Senate in August. The new law allows those with a life-threatening disease or condition to use an “eligible investigation drug” that has not received full approval from the…
In its most recent announcement, the FDA cited 44 reported deaths associated with kratom use as further evidence of its dangers. According to Oliver Grundmann, a research professor at the University of Florida, the FDA’s report “cannot be supported by any reasonable scientific or medical standard.” “Unlike overdose deaths that are rightly attributed to classical…
*sassafras tree The paper reveals the results of a U.S. Food and Drug Administration-regulated clinical trial in which police officers, firefighters, and veterans diagnosed with PTSD were treated with MDMA-assisted psychotherapy to great effect. The most encouraging part is, the effects appeared to last. One month after the second session, 68 percent of the full-dose…
From a law enforcement perspective, hallucinogenics seem to hold promise for making society safer. From a policymaker perspective, they may improve society’s mental health. I’m not arguing that … any psychedelic should be distributed over the counter without a prescription. But there should be no debate that the epidemic of opioids, and increasing incidences of…
*Age-standardised disability-adjusted life year (DALY) rates from Post-traumatic stress disorder by country (per 100,000 inhabitants). “We can do legalization and decriminalization, but we need a reparative component to these policies” … Betty Aldworth, the Executive Director of Students for Sensible Drug Policy continued with a plea for more compassion in different drug use contexts. “I…
Just in my short lifetime, I’ve seen marijuana rebranded from a super illegal, black market, highly stigmatized substance to one of the most celebrated alternative health and wellness treatments out there. Will legalizing magic mushrooms and other psychedelic drugs be the next big fight? The next big industry for our state? Colorado decriminalized marijuana long…
…echo[es] data from the 2017 Global Drug Survey, which found that mushrooms were by far the “safest” drug, accounting for the fewest number of hospital visits throughout the year (only 17 people total). People who take mushrooms tend to take less of them than other drugs and tend to be better prepared than those who…
More than one in five American adults can eat, drink, smoke or vape [cannabis] as they please. The result is the slow decline of pre-employment drug tests, which for decades had been a requirement for new recruits in industries ranging from manufacturing to finance. As of the beginning of 2018, Excellence Health Inc., a Las…
“We saw, sadly, that in every region, in every age group of adults, in both men and women, overdoses from opioids are increasing,” [the CDC says] In just one year, overdoses from opioids jumped by about 30 percent, according to a report released Tuesday (Mar. 6th, 2018) by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.…
“There’s no reason that both shouldn’t be legalized because psilocybin or magic mushrooms are just as safe as cannabis … “We could apply lessons from cannabis legalization and apply them to psilocybin legalization,” -Neuroscientist Michele Ross The group calls itself Colorado for Psilocybin after the fungi’s scientific name. Their proposed measure would do away with…
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