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Hotels adapt to serving the cannabis connoisseur
Public consumption of marijuana terrifies prohibitionists. In practice they appear to view cannabis users in groups as the moral equivalent of demonic rituals. Maybe it’s because for thousands of years heaps of smoldering marijuana and psychedelic herbs have been publicly … Continue reading
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Seizing addictive drugs can be fatal
If failure can be defined as something that creates the very crisis it’s intended to prevent, then a recent Brown University study of close-proximity opioid overdoses in Indianapolis confirms suspicions that little else fails like the drug war when it … Continue reading
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DEA chief Anne Milgram accused of cronyism
The US Office of Inspector General has identified questionable funding practices by DEA Administrator Anne Milgram, a former NYU law professor, federal prosecutor, and New Jersey attorney general. Milgram is accused of diverting no-bid DEA contracts into the hands of … Continue reading
DEA license requirements plague doctors
A June deadline from the Biden Administration demanding that medical doctors who prescribe opioids qualify for a DEA license to do so by taking 8 hours of training has drawn critical comments from the many doctors affected: So if I … Continue reading
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Drug War targets erectile dysfunction pills
Viagra and not opioids is the winner of the unpopular drug contest when it comes to international drug smuggling, according to Kaiser Health News (KHN). Despite evidence to the contrary, the FDA has long defended its efforts to prevent opioids … Continue reading
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Alleged cannabis links to psychosis busted
Neurologist Holly Elser, MD, PhD; and Keith Humphreys, PhD; Mathew V. Kiang, ScD; Swapnil Mehta, MD; Jong H. Yoon, MD; William O. Faustman, PhD; at the Department of Neurology, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, have debunked prohibitionist propositions familiar … Continue reading
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Rohnert Park cop charged in marijuana theft
A few California police officers are undergoing withdrawal-like symptoms from the drug war due to being denied any opportunity to enforce a failed crusade against cannabis: …a grand jury added four new criminal counts against Joseph Huffaker, including impersonating a … Continue reading
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No one deserves jail for having a psychedelic experience
The City of Berkeley wants to decriminalize tripping: A project to decriminalize natural psychedelics that lingered for three years in the Berkeley City Council will come back to life in a few weeks. But unlike other jurisdictions that have taken … Continue reading
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Teacher! Leave them kids alone!
A new study coming out of the Columbia Mailman School of Public Health confirms Pink Floyd’s iconic suggestion from Another Brick in the Wall that inflicting totalitarianism onto kids will have an equal and opposite social reaction: In new research … Continue reading
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Governor DeSantis practices medicine without a license
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis wants his state to control the quantities of medicinal marijuana sold to individual consumers. With the high cost of cannabis, patients usually titrate their dosages to adjust for the various potencies of the product and their … Continue reading
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