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Anti-drug laws are blocking the progress of far-reaching research that can show the therapeutic uses of Psilocybe mushrooms, plants like cannabis and other psychedelia like MDMA. That is what Professor David Nutt contends, after he first sounded the alarm bell on 12 June 2013 in Nature Reviews Neuroscience. The world-wide drug repression, also called theRead More …

We all have an interest in knowing which policies work in tackling problems associated with drug use. Many members of the public, and many politicians, believe that our drug policies are not working. But the debate about how we address the challenges of mind-altering drugs is polarised in a way not seen in most otherRead More …

Bonn, Germany: The legalization of cannabis for therapeutic purposes is not associated with increases in the use of marijuana or other illicit substances among adolescents, according to a discussion paper commissioned by the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) in Germany. Economists from Montana State University, the University of Oregon, and the University ofRead More …

Ants and grubs In the human relationship with the drugs, animals are often involved. From the coffee to the amanita muscaria, from the tea to the iboga, numerous drugs have been discovered by the man observing the animals that intentionally inebriate themselves with those substances. This is in relationship with the important ethological discovery thatRead More …