Here’s the introduction Forum Decriminalizing Cannabis 28 Mar 2025 Jennifer D. Oliva abstract. The United States has criminalized the manufacture, distribution, use, and possession of cannabis and its psychoactive components at the federal level since 1970. The states began to push back on national cannabis prohibition in the mid-1990s and, as a result, adult cannabis […]

This is why psychedelics will always remain interesting. The last sentence! The Phoenix New Times Arizona’s first-in-the-nation clinical trial of magic mushrooms is one step closer to becoming a reality. Last week, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration released a hold on a clinical trial being run by the Scottsdale Research Institute, clearing a major […]

In this fourteenth video of our Fourth Lecture Series (remake), I discuss O Centro’s “battle of the experts” on the issue of diversion. Here, I sort out all the relevant inquiries and how those played out in this case. These diversion factors are great guidelines for entheogen-based religious practitioners to consider when handling Sacraments which […]

Two Calgary teens have been charged, and another released without charges, after being arrested by police in connection to multiple robberies in cannabis stories in the city’s north.

Andrew Clark, the purported “second in command” to ex-Olympian drug lord Ryan Wedding has pleaded not guilty to 11 charges – including four murders. Clark is one of 16 people charged in an FBI investigation into a violent cross-border drug trafficking ring, allegedly run by Wedding. Investigators believe Wedding and Clark led a billion-dollar drug […]

A 31-YEAR-OLD drugs “courier” who tried to smuggle high-purity cocaine into Jersey to settle a debt has been jailed for five years. Faustin Kapinga Mutombo, from London, travelled to the Island by ferry from Portsmouth on 17 January last year, carrying the drugs inside his body. When stopped, Mutombo told Customs and Immigration officers he […]