The new penalties take effect today and will run for six months. They include a 30-day license suspension or a fine of $4,950. The Oregon Liquor Control Commission announced … that it was temporarily increasing penalties for pot shops that sell marijuana to minors. Previously the penalty was a 10-day license suspension or a $1,650…
*from ECfES April 2016 Newsletter “Fighting drugs without legalizing them is like fighting tooth decay without removing the cavity. UN drug prohibition and criminalization, indelibly written into the 1961 Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, is the cavity. Drill it clean during the March 2018 CND Session.” Europe, Asia, Indonesia, Africa, Australia, and North, South and Central…
According to the study, violent crime in such states has fallen by an average of 13% since legal cannabis was put on the books, and at even higher rates regarding homicide. Among U.S. states bordering Mexico that have medical marijuana laws (MMLs), they found that California saw the highest overall reduction in violent crime, at…
State Police Superintendent Travis Hampton told The Oregonian/OregonLive that he decided to halt most field testing in response to concerns raised by troopers. “This was simply a risk mitigation decision to protect our employees (and) their family members that may come in contact with their uniforms and the citizens that may accidentally be exposed to…
It said it acknowledged the “negative impact” of some drug use but added that prohibitionist policies “increased stigma”, telling political leaders not to “stoke fears” about drug use. It added that current laws treated people who use drugs as “sub-human, non-citizens and scapegoats for wider societal problems”. The Global Commission’s latest report advises political leaders…
In Toronto, safe injections sites are no longer illegal. One of the locations, which happens to be downtown, looks like a doctor office. It has an area that the user can “do their thing” while they have staff that watches them for any signs of trouble. Unlike other countries, in the United States doesn’t allow…
Defining what a drug is, how it can and can’t be used, and who can use it has proven to be more about politics and corporate interests than biology … That’s the problem with blanket regulations on disparate substances: you’re unfairly equating dissimilar drugs. Sugar is the most potent and deadly drug on the planet…
In mid-March 2014, Sayyed Mohammad Sadeq Hussaini Rohani, who is a Grand Ayatollah (meaning the highest authority on Shi’ite Islam—basically, the equivalent of the Pope), announced that entheogenic drugs are permissible (ḥalāl) for Muslims under traditional Islamic law. That means, that so long as psychedelics are taken under the observation of a trained specialist, it’s…
Treatment methods reported include flogging, beatings, punishment by starvation, long-term handcuffing to bed frames, ‘coding’ (hypnotherapy aimed at persuading the patient that drug use leads to death), electric shock, burying patients in the ground and xenoimplantation of guinea pig brains. “Such methods are not only cruel but ineffective. As the Russian Federal Drug Control…
GRAPH : How each substance performs regarding the average (dashed line) of overall weighted scores. Substances above the dashed line (red) do more harm than the average value. Substances below the dashed line (pale pink) do less harm than average value. The shocking reality of the role alcohol plays in people’s lives has been revealed in a…
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