Medicine/Healing

Right to try and the FDA’s proposed ban on kratom

And even if kratom can be dangerous, banning it violates the administration’s defense of Right to Try laws: potentially dangerous medicines are nevertheless valuable if their expected benefits exceed their risks. Doubts about effectiveness aside, the prima facie reasoning behind the FDA’s crackdown can be found in a press release from November 14, 2017, in…

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Medicine/Healing

They used to get free or low-cost marijuana to help with their cancer. Not anymore.

*Legalization Gone Awry?  Where it’s even worse?  How about Lesotho, Africa?LINK The program and others like it could be forced to close due to an unlikely reason: legalization.  “Victory was built on the backs of human suffering,” said Valerie Corral, a Wo/Men’s co-founder. “Unfortunately, compassion is not financially appealing in this market.”  Ralph Trueblood of Wo/Men’s added:…

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Public health – ibogaine treatment study program

Establishing the Ibogaine Treatment Study Program in the Maryland Department of Health. Providing for the purpose of the Program; requiring the Department, on or before July 1, 2019, to select a certain number of academic medical centers to participate in the Program; requiring the Governor to include in the annual budget for fiscal years 2020…

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These psychedelics may soon be “legal”

While both MDMA and psilocybin show promise for hard-to-treat psychiatric disorders, it’s important to keep in mind that the conditions in these studies were strictly controlled and the patients meticulously monitored during treatment. Once approved, MAPS says the drug will be administered in an inpatient setting at DEA-certified clinics by licensed therapists who have been…

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