Failed prohibition

[neoplacebo]

Cherokee Indians in NC legalize pot on the Qualla Boundary.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/possessing-m ... 32828.html

[Vrede too]

Cherokee Indians in NC legalize pot on the Qualla Boundary.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/possessing-m ... 32828.html

The Psychedelic Revolution Is Coming. Psychiatry May Never Be the Same.

... Dr. Doblin’s quest to win mainstream acceptance of psychedelics took a significant leap forward on Monday when the journal Nature Medicine published the results of his lab’s study on MDMA, the club drug popularly known as Ecstasy and Molly. The study, the first Phase 3 clinical trial conducted with psychedelic-assisted therapy, found that MDMA paired with counseling brought marked relief to patients with severe post-traumatic stress disorder.

The results, coming weeks after a New England Journal of Medicine study that highlighted the benefits of treating depression with psilocybin, the psychoactive ingredient in magic mushrooms, have excited scientists, psychotherapists and entrepreneurs in the rapidly expanding field of psychedelic medicine. They say it is only a matter of time before the Food and Drug Administration grants approval for psychoactive compounds to be used therapeutically — for MDMA as soon as 2023, followed by psilocybin a year or two later....

“Some days I wake up and can’t believe how far we’ve come,” said Dr. Doblin, 67, who now oversees the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies, a multimillion dollar research and advocacy empire that employs 130 neuroscientists, pharmacologists and regulatory specialists working to lay the groundwork for the coming psychedelics revolution.

The nation’s top universities are racing to set up psychedelic research centers, and investors are pouring millions of dollars into a pack of start-ups. States and cities across the country are beginning to loosen restrictions on the drugs, the first steps in what some hope will lead to the federal decriminalization of psychedelics for therapeutic and even recreational use....

Numerous studies have shown that classic psychedelics like LSD and psilocybin are not addictive and cause no organ damage in even high doses. And contrary to popular lore, Ecstasy does not leave holes in users’ brains, studies say, nor will a bad acid trip lead to chromosome damage....

Last year, Oregon became the first state to legalize the therapeutic use of psilocybin. Denver, Oakland, California, and Washington, D.C. have decriminalized the drug, and several states, including California, are mulling similar legislation. Though the drugs remain illegal under federal law, the Justice Department has so far taken a hands-off approach to enforcement, similar to how it has handled recreational marijuana.

Even some Republicans, a group that has traditionally opposed the liberalization of drug laws, are starting to come around. Last month, former Texas Gov. Rick Perry, citing the high rates of suicide among war veterans, called on his state’s legislators to support a Democratic-sponsored bill that would establish a psilocybin study for patients with PTSD....

Ketamine is not a classic psychedelic; it is an anesthetic perhaps best known as both a club drug and a horse tranquilizer. But at higher doses, it can produce hallucinations, and it has shown promise treating major depression and severe PTSD, though the effects tend to be less enduring than therapies with psilocybin or MDMA. Ketamine, however, has a distinct advantage over those other drugs: It is the only one in the United States that is legally available to patients outside a clinical study....

Drugs are medicine, who knew?

[neoplacebo]

God wants us to get high. Why else would he have given us the opium poppy, pot, and all the other psychoactive plants?

[Vrede too]

God wants us to get high. Why else would he have given us the opium poppy, pot, and all the other psychoactive plants?

. . . and chemists!

[neoplacebo]

God wants us to get high. Why else would he have given us the opium poppy, pot, and all the other psychoactive plants?

. . . and chemists!

God was actually Mr Natural and was once featured in Zap Comics.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Natural_(character)

[Vrede too]

Sounds dope
Bernie Sanders wants to know if cannabis reporter is 'stoned' right now

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) has a few burning questions.

When Politico's Natalie Fertig introduced herself to Sanders as the publication's cannabis reporter, Sanders asked, incredulously, if she was "stoned" right now. The senator then wondered out loud if being stoned was a job "requirement," to which Fertig replied, "It's actually not."

He's probably just asking for a friend....

Listen to a clip of the brief exchange at the link.

[Vrede too]

Do y'all remember when AL or some other downstream cops were complaining about methheads urinating in TN and dosing downstream AL fish? I can't find it here, but some of us were skeptical and it did turn out to be BS hyperbole. I'm suspicious of this, too:

Crystal meth in waterways is turning trout into drug addicts

... Researchers from the Czech Republic took 120 juvenile brown trout that were bred in captivity and kept them in two different tanks, each containing 60 fish and 350 litres of water.

One tank was then laced with methamphetamine to a concentration of one microgram per litre, a level often found in freshwater rivers in Europe and the UK.

Some water systems in the world have been found to be poisoned with amphetamine levels 25 times this.

The fish in the experiment stayed in their tanks for eight weeks before they were transferred to a different, drug-free aquarium.

Researchers then gave the fish the choice of staying in clean water, or returning to a drug-riddled tank.

The theory, the researchers said, was that if the fish were suffering with symptoms of withdrawal they would opt to return to the methamphetamine water.

What they saw was a clear preference by the exposed fish for the contaminated waters as they suffered withdrawals during the first four days after moving to freshwater.

“Controls spent 41.5 per cent of all observations in the methamphetamine-dosed part of the arena,” wrote the study authors in their paper, published in the Journal of Experimental Biology.

The figure for the exposed brown trout however, was much higher at 50.5 per cent....

It's not a very heavy "addiction" if the trout spend 50.5 per cent of the time in the meth area and 49.5 per cent of the time in the sober area.

[neoplacebo]

Just what we needed; meth addled fish. I used to enjoy smoking fish but gave it up; they're so hard to keep lit.

[Vrede too]

Just what we needed; meth addled fish. I used to enjoy smoking fish but gave it up; they're so hard to keep lit.

I took some cool fishing trips, but the fishbacks got scary.

[Vrede too]

Plant trimmer for $10 million illegal Missouri marijuana farm will serve years in prison

A man who played a minimal role in the operation of a multi-million dollar marijuana farm in northwestern Missouri has been sentenced to six years in prison....

Medical marijuana has been legal in Missouri since 2018. It is legal in 18 states and Washington D.C. for recreational use.

The only two people criminally charged in the investigation were hired to tend to the plants.

Objections raised by Medina-Perez’s defense attorney, Carie Allen with the Federal Public Defender’s Office, included arguments of Medina-Perez’s relatively minimal role in the operation. He worked for a short while as a plant trimmer for the farm, living there inside a tent, and did not package or distribute the drugs, she said.

She described Medina-Perez and the only other defendant charged in this case as low-level employees.

“These two are the bottom of the totem pole,” she said.

Allen also asked the court to consider the fact that Missouri has since created a medical marijuana program and many other states have legalized the drug for recreational use. She said the drug, while still illegal under federal law, does not pose as great a risk to the public as others seen on the street....

Meanwhile, Missouri is leading the nation in deaths among mostly non-stoned, unvaccinated, RepuQ CV-19 victims. Priorities?

More than $1 billion in marijuana seized in California drug bust

California created job security for cops by taxing legal pot sales so heavily that black markets would continue to thrive. When was the last time you heard of a California avocado bust?

[Vrede too]

Cherokee Indians in NC legalize pot on the Qualla Boundary.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/possessing-m ... 32828.html

Cherokee establish framework for medical marijuana cultivation

Growers in the Qualla Boundary, the sovereign nation controlled by the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians in Cherokee, Graham, Haywood, Jackson and Swain counties, will soon be allowed to legally cultivate and sell medical marijuana. The EBCI Tribal Council passed an ordinance on Aug. 5 establishing a framework for production and use of the crop, which the body had voted to decriminalize on May 6.

The tribe will establish a Cannabis Control Board that will license all cultivation, processing, dispensary and laboratory locations. The first dispensary is slated for Cherokee; qualified patients over 21 years old, including people outside the tribe, will be able to purchase up to 1 ounce of medical cannabis per day and 6 ounces per month. Kituwah Medical LLC, an entity wholly owned by the EBCI, will have exclusive rights to grow and sell marijuana for three years....

The full EBCI ordinance is available at avl.mx/a7l.

The town of Cherokee is 1.5 hours from me, 2 hours from you. Idk if my MD will give me an Rx, but he's pretty cool. My only other semi-legal weed was bought in Hawaii years ago. Of course, I'll still be a criminal once I leave the Res.

[GoCubsGo]

The full EBCI ordinance is available at avl.mx/a7l.

The town of Cherokee is 1.5 hours from me, 2 hours from you. Idk if my MD will give me an Rx, but he's pretty cool. My only other semi-legal weed was bought in Hawaii years ago. Of course, I'll still be a criminal once I leave the Res.
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Stuff is fully legal in Illinois since 2020, dispensaries have popped up everywhere.

This is different stuff from my youth and I'm occasionally enjoying it.

[GoCubsGo]

Help is around the corner!

[Vrede too]

Help is around the corner!

Maybe.

... The measure would let patients purchase and use marijuana from medical cannabis centers if their physician declares in writing they have one of more than a dozen "debilitating medical conditions" listed and that cannabis could bring health benefits. An amendment approved Thursday increases the amount of a prescribing physician's required training from three to 10 hours....

May be too restrictive for me to benefit.

[GoCubsGo]

Help is around the corner!

Maybe.

... The measure would let patients purchase and use marijuana from medical cannabis centers if their physician declares in writing they have one of more than a dozen "debilitating medical conditions" listed and that cannabis could bring health benefits. An amendment approved Thursday increases the amount of a prescribing physician's required training from three to 10 hours....

May be too restrictive for me to benefit.

Maybe if you offered your doc half?

[Ulysses]

I'm high on life.

[Vrede too]

Reality is for people that can't handle drugs.

[neoplacebo]

I'm high on life.

You stick with that. I'm life on high.

[neoplacebo]

Cherokee Indians in NC legalize pot on the Qualla Boundary.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/possessing-m ... 32828.html

Cherokee establish framework for medical marijuana cultivation

Growers in the Qualla Boundary, the sovereign nation controlled by the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians in Cherokee, Graham, Haywood, Jackson and Swain counties, will soon be allowed to legally cultivate and sell medical marijuana. The EBCI Tribal Council passed an ordinance on Aug. 5 establishing a framework for production and use of the crop, which the body had voted to decriminalize on May 6.

The tribe will establish a Cannabis Control Board that will license all cultivation, processing, dispensary and laboratory locations. The first dispensary is slated for Cherokee; qualified patients over 21 years old, including people outside the tribe, will be able to purchase up to 1 ounce of medical cannabis per day and 6 ounces per month. Kituwah Medical LLC, an entity wholly owned by the EBCI, will have exclusive rights to grow and sell marijuana for three years....

The full EBCI ordinance is available at avl.mx/a7l.

The town of Cherokee is 1.5 hours from me, 2 hours from you. Idk if my MD will give me an Rx, but he's pretty cool. My only other semi-legal weed was bought in Hawaii years ago. Of course, I'll still be a criminal once I leave the Res.

As far as I know, it's legal to possess pot for personal use in VA right now. I just don't know anybody over there to share in this gala. I'm still in the illegal shade of it here in TN. Keep a low profile, never go out at night, wash my clean clothes.

[Ulysses]

I'm high on life.

You stick with that. I'm life on high.

Highly unlikely.