A campaign to raise donations for psychedelic research has raised $30 million to fund a study into MDMA-assisted psychotherapy as a treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The funding drive, dubbed the Capstone Campaign, is a collaboration between the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) and the Psychedelic Science... Read more
The hemp industry has seen its share of struggles and growing pains over the past year, but it’s also witnessed a year full of changes and forward progress. After the 2018 Farm Bill made hemp a legal commodity and took the plant off the list of controlled substances in... Read more
Over-the-counter CBD isn’t legal and continues to worry federal drug regulators as more people take it and give it to animals, a lawyer for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said Friday. Randall Gnatt, senior counsel at the FDA, told the nation’s veterinarians that the FDA thinks there are... Read more
The Canadian government will have to officially respond to a petition calling for the decriminalization of psychedelics after it garnered nearly 15,000 signatures—and there’s legislation in the works that could make the policy change happen. The petition, which is not binding but must be sponsored by a member of... Read more
The nation’s leading psychedelics research organization announced on Thursday that it has raised $30 million in donations—including from several notable business leaders outside the drug policy realm—that will enable it to complete a study on using MDMA to treat post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies... Read more
The Canadian government will have to officially respond to a petition calling for the decriminalization of psychedelics after it garnered nearly 15,000 signatures—and there’s legislation in the works that could make the policy change happen. The petition, which is not binding but must be sponsored by a member of... Read more
The nation’s leading psychedelics research organization announced on Thursday that it has raised $30 million in donations—including from several notable business leaders outside the drug policy realm—that will enable it to complete a study on using MDMA to treat post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies... Read more
Contracts, emails and spreadsheets that Juanita and Dawn Ramos shared with ProPublica detail how domestic and foreign investors, many with marijuana industry ties, seized upon the nation’s public health disaster. By J. David McSwane, ProPublica In late April, as an escalating pandemic shut down most of the country and... Read more
The latest push by the federal government to deter marijuana-impaired driving is coming to TV, radio and the web. Its message? Even if you’re being chased by an axe-wielding psychopath, it’s not worth driving high. The ad, a partnership between the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) and the... Read more
Draft legislation that would allow Brazilian farmers to grow cannabis for medical and industrial purposes on domestic soil for the first time has been submitted to the country’s lower house of Congress. The bill was delivered to the House of Deputies speaker this week by lawmakers Paulo Teixeira and... Read more
