Sarah Runyon, the defence lawyer who won the case, said the ruling has the potential to be groundbreaking. “It’s really just forcing the court to step back and say, ‘Wait a minute, are we really just playing whack-a-mole here?’ Taking one marginalized street person, throw them into custody [then] somebody else pops up, and what problem are…
At a certain point, ignorance is willful. The psychedelic community has refused to learn critical lessons about ethics and safety… we are having these conversations at the dawn of medicalization. The problem is… bad ideas… they go back to the earliest days of psychedelic research and psychedelics as a cultural phenomenon within industrial contexts. Abuse…
Unfounded claims that psychedelic drugs have no medical uses, as the US Congress once declared, and are fundamentally dangerous, kept research endeavours in a straitjacket… Decriminalize Nature, which argues humans have an unalienable right to develop their own relationship with natural plants, persuaded US authorities in half a dozen municipalities, including Washington DC, to decriminalise…
“Thank you so very much for all of your openness to communicate about this. Under the directive of the city council to educate and gain community support, we have collected over 330 letters of support, of which I have 270 here in my hands, that we’ve been turning into the city council,” Decriminalize Nature Humboldt…
Quiet spoken lady on disability who volunteered at animal rescue charity & self medicated with cannabis for pain sent to prison for 60 days over 2.5 grams of cannabis… “Here, in this court, she has run out of road,” [the judge] said. Again another example of a judge completely out of touch as to what…
In medical markets, there was an influx of “cannabis clinics” where practitioners specialized in the evaluation and treatment of patients with cannabinoid therapies. Many of these clinic chains built out expensive clinics resembling luxury medical spas, and later cashed out by selling their business along with their patient and client lists. In the United States…
If the FDA secures a global kratom ban, countless people could die by suicide and unintentional overdose… why does the FDA vilify [whole botanical] kratom when so many stakeholders identify deficiencies in its arguments? Could it be that drug companies are commercializing synthetic versions of kratom and banning the plant would protect their interests? Companies…
For those… who grew up in the “this is your brain on drugs” era, it’s hard to let go of stigma – and the mental image of an egg sizzling on a hot pan. But as a growing number of states and cities move to decriminalize… Healing the healers is a win-win, and everyone can…
…would establish “a framework for research in this Commonwealth to discover innovative methods to optimize the public health benefits of psilocybin.” It would prioritize studies that focus on veterans, retired first responders and their families. Under HB 1959, which was formally filed with 19 cosponsors on Wednesday [Oct. 6th], the state Department of Health would authorize…
“It is unfortunate that the Santa Cruz City Council has taken a position to recriminalize… all cacti which contain mescaline,” [said Larry Norris, PhD] The change, he argued, will “increase the likelihood of… increasing the potential of arrests for possessing common household plants such as San Pedro and Peruvian torch cacti.” Original Article (Marijuana Moment):Santa…
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