“The US has never brought a death penalty case for a drug offense, but following the president’s call for executions last spring, Attorney General Sessions sent a memo to prosecutors urging them to consider seeking the death penalty in some cases.”
Read more: https://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/2018/jun/27/150_organizations_condemn_trumps
“Oklahomans for Health, the folks behind the initiative ought to be feeling pretty good right about now. They have successfully passed a very enlightened medical marijuana law in the face of opposition from the state’s Republican and religious establishment.”
Read more: https://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/2018/jun/27/oklahoma_passes_most_progressive
“These two studies, while preliminary, contribute to a growing body of evidence that psychedelic drugs like ayahuasca, LSD and mushrooms can help people with difficult-to-treat depression.”
Read more: https://theconversation.com/amazonian-psychedelic-may-ease-severe-depression-new-study-shows-98814
“Most of the psychedelics tested, the researchers found, promoted the growth of new dendrites from a neuron cell, which help transmit information from other neurons to the cell, as well as increased the density of small protrusions on these dendrites, known as dendritic spines. They also jumpstarted the growth of new connections, or synapses, between individual neurons.”
Read more: https://gizmodo.com/psychedelic-drugs-may-help-the-brain-repair-itself-stu-1826765205
“In April, an expert advisory panel for the FDA voted unanimously to recommend Epidiolex’s approval and determined that ‘CBD has a negligible abuse potential.’ The DEA did not immediately respond to Ars’ request for comment. But GW said it expects that the DEA will reschedule CBD within 90 days.”
“The findings support the idea that marijuana is an ‘exit drug,’ rather than a ‘gateway drug,’ as drug warriors used to claim.”
Read more: https://herb.co/marijuana/news/cbd-treat-addiction
“New research adds to an increasing body of evidence that restricting opioid prescribing has not solved the opioid crisis but instead worsened it.”
Read more: https://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/2018/jun/16/making_matters_worse_deas_move
“America got along just fine for 225 years before ICE, the monstrous child of the wars on drugs and terrorism, was spawned. It can do so again.”
Read more: http://reason.com/archives/2018/06/11/abolish-ice
“First Coca-Cola, then Pepsi closed their distribution centers amid drug gang extortion demands.”
Read more: https://www.yahoo.com/news/no-coke-no-pepsi-bottlers-leave-mexican-city-210937975.html
“With its intention to destroy the black community and anti-war peace activists, which has certainly been ‘successfully’ achieved for the black community, the shamefulness of the War on Drugs is elevated to a much higher level of despicably, evil immorality.”