“One of the things people misunderstand is how criminalization creates barriers to treatment,” Kassandra Frederique, the executive director of the Drug Policy Alliance, a national nonprofit dedicated to legalizing illicit drug use,toldUSA Today. “If we want people to make different c...
Oregon Doctors Wont Face Sanctions if Patients Get Lethal Drugs while Legal.(Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News)Barnett, Erin Hoover
“It’s not going to stop anybody dying of an overdose or drug poisoning,” Larsen said. “The drugs are still going to be contaminated.” “I think we need stores where you can go in and find legal heroin, legal cocaine and lega...
We dig it, and with all the pain that can come with our drugging journeys, there are some highs that honestly can make you feel sorry for all the straights in the world who never get to have their brain’s inner ‘barriers’ come down; when our ‘Doors of Perception’ open up to us...
These medicines aren’t legally available to the U.S. public in most states and can only be used as part of a clinical trial. In 2023, Oregon became the first state to allow legal access to psilocybin for adults, and other states are considering similar legislation. ...
are those of same-sex union and recreational drug use. I will begin with these. Here and elsewhere, we might understand that what is appropriate for the pagan and what ought to be legal are strictly speaking different issues. They are nonetheless interrelated in my conception since the freedom...
Legal Status of Medical Marijuana Medical marijuana in the U.S. is controlled at the state level. It is important to recognize that state medical and recreational marijuana laws do not change the fact that using marijuana continues to be an offense under U.S. federal law. Per federal law, ...
There’s evidence that magic mushrooms, for example, have been used for thousands of years, and many psychedelics are legal in Brazil, Jamaica, and the Netherlands, and on Native American reservations. But the relevant backstory comes from the psychedelics renaissance of the 1950s and ’60s, ...
The states, territories or districts where recreational use of marijuana (THC) or marijuana products are legal are:Alaska Arizona California Colorado Connecticut Delaware Guam (territory) Illinois Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Missouri Montana Nevada New Jersey New Mexico New York Ohio ...
After years of debate, medical marijuana is now fully legal in 37 states . The new frontier is psychedelics. Some researchers believe that psychedelic drugs...