A Change in Attitudes?
With pot shops on nearly every corner and pot users more common than ever, we're seeing the consequences of what one expert called America's 'remarkably naive' approach.
Tag: research
All
Latest
Psychosis in the Age of Pot…
Compared with no cannabis use, cannabis use was significantly associated with an 11-fold increased risk for psychotic disorders during adolescence…
Read More
Keith Humphreys on Drug Policy
Professional treatment is by definition time-limited; recovery is not. That journey doesn’t end. Peer-based support is often better able to meet future needs.
Read More
Approving Psychedelics
The organization formed… as a public-benefit corporation, in anticipation that MDMA-assisted therapy would win FDA approval and start to reap taxable revenue that it couldn’t manage as a nonprofit.
Read More
The Pot Paradox
“… Is [cannabis] good for you? It’s hard to find the literature that suggests that. Is it neutral for you? Maybe, for some people. Is it harmful for some people? Absolutely.”
Read More
Testing…Testing
California State government has realized that these labs are essentially willing to fudge their results in order to please their customers in the cannabis industry.
Read More
Is there a role for cannabis in OUD Treatment?
They found no clear correlation between cannabis use and a lessening of opioid dependence.
Read More
Why Tripping Feels Life-Changing
What seemed so incredibly important while under the influence had lost a lot of its charm when sober.
Read More
Rehab for Pain Patients
Simply bringing up the possibility of ‘doing without’ could be immensely threatening.
Read More
Ketamine, meet Placebo
Translation: the absence of adequate masking would presumably explain why ketamine appeared superior – due to an error in the study design.
Read More
Anatomy of a Mushroom
Once again based on experience, I’m confident that many of the folks who will try psilocybin in future, because of all the favorable publicity, will fall into those ‘excluded’ categories.
Read More
Be Careful Where You Work?
CDC claims that 1 in 5 drug overdoses in 2020 – or 20% — involved people in those two sectors alone. Something to think about.
Read More
Will This Make a Difference?
And if there were damage, it’d be our brains that were affected, right? The very organ we’re asking now to evaluate its own functioning. It’s not a happy thought.
Read More