Currently, indigenous people who have been studying these medicines for many generations receive little if any respect in Western science for their extensive expertise. Furthermore, underground therapists, often women, have been putting their lives, livelihoods, and reputations on the line in the name of healing without institutional protections or recognition for their work. These…
Employers in Massachusetts now have to provide “reasonable accommodation” for workers who use medical marijuana to treat an illness when not on the job, according to the latest ruling from the state’s Supreme Judicial Court. The court ruled in favor of Cristina Barbuto, who was hired in an entry-level position at Advantage Sales & Marketing…
New Hampshire just took another step in ensuring its state motto — “live free or die” — is true for marijuana. There’s a difference between legalization and decriminalization: Legalization removes all penalties for marijuana possession below a certain threshold (usually a few ounces of pot), and it typically — although not in Washington, DC —…
*Vancouver police block the north sidewalk of East Hastings Avenue during a benefit barbecue and concert for Vancouver’s safe injection site, Insite. Police prevented the concert from going ahead, as organizers were not granted permits by the city. …Oregon will join several other states that have already defelonized or decriminalized drug possession, including Maryland, California,…
Change occurs only where there has been “intensive, robust and professional grassroots activism”… Drug harm reduction represents the final safety net for many of the most socially excluded populations on Earth … But harm reduction in the drug world is not only about saving lives on the frontline; it’s also about developing policy to prevent…
Of the 145 countries surveyed in another report — the 2014 Gallup-Healthways Global Wellbeing Index — the social well-being of citizens in Singapore ranked 123, Japan 127, China 129 and South Korea 112. Indeed, mental healthcare in Asia stands to benefit substantially from new developments. Suicide rates in South Korea are the second highest in…
The relationship that social groups establish with nature is based upon representation and idea systems, mainly religious and philosophical. However, the urban and industrial society path, based on gains, has been leading to serious environmental problems, among them, the Amazon deforestation. …the formation of religious territories of organizations that make use of the tea Ayahuasca…
Despite the stigma surrounding these controlled substances, new data from YouGov shows that many Americans are ready to embrace psychedelic therapies. While more than half of all Americans may support research into psychedelics for therapeutic use, a 63% majority also said they would personally be open to medical treatment with psilocybin, ketamine, or MDMA if…
The real wealth lives on the surface of the ground… Mexico would profit much more by letting silver, the ‘excrement of the Moon’, remain buried, and instead take advantage of the natural medical and therapeutic wealth of peyote to help cure modern man of his ‘sickness of the heart’. Currently, several companies are itching to…
The fact that there is no Indigenous group that is known to combine these compounds orally – despite their widespread availability and the broad knowledge surrounding them throughout the Amazon – is a good indicator that caution should be used when combining them. Pharmacological studies have shown that at least one harmalinic compound (THH-tetrahydroharmine), as…
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