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The history and science of psychedelics: from acid and shrooms to ketamine and salvia

The Cannigma

Turning down activity in the DMN allows better access to new areas of the brain, which can boost creativity and improve problem solving. History: Swiss natural products chemist Albert Hofmann synthesized LSD and accidentally ingested it on April 19, 1943. History: Bufo is a slang term for the poisonous secretions of certain toads.

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California: Department of Cannabis Control Names Leadership Team

Cannabis Law Report

The creation of this standalone cannabis department is part of a larger effort to improve access to licensure, simplify regulatory oversight and support California businesses. Collectively, these dedicated public servants bring extensive experience from the state and local level to the leadership team.

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An Epoch of OG: The OG Kush family genealogy

SpeedWeed

This August marks 25 years since the duo used that surviving cutting to start writing OG’s chapter in the history books. History made: A small, crowded, 1996 Silverlake, CA OG Kush grow by Josh D. The strain’s reputation brought big names looking for access to Del Rosso and his circle of friends. Destroyed the competition’.

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New Frontiers in the Law of Psychedelics

Cannabis Law Report

Collectively, private investors have poured billions of dollars into these companies, with more money coming from non-profit organizations. Right to Try laws permit patients with serious or life-threatening diseases to access drugs that do not yet have government approval. The federal government and most of the states in the U.S.

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Freedom Leaf’s Diversity in Cannabis Impact List

Freedom Leaf

I continue to advocate for patient access to medical marijuana, and work with recreational legalization groups like Start SMART New York and Drug Policy Alliance that aim to take away one of the many tools law enforcement uses to lock up people of color, and to make sure we’re not pushed out of this industry.

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Paper: The transition of cannabis into the mainstream of Australian healthcare: framings in professional medical publications

Cannabis Law Report

However, the nature of the government regulations and the subsequent complexity of prescribing, as well as doctors’ safety uncertainties and the stigma of the plant, remain contributing barriers to patient access. It also has an extensive and diverse history of medicinal use. 2018 ; Frankhauser 2008 ). Refractory paediatric epilepsy.

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A Hidden Origin Story of the CBD Craze

SMPL

“There was a strong sense that this was really going to be something, if when people use these strains they have any kind of experience like the mice did in the laboratories,” said Martin Lee, a writer who at the time had been finishing a book about the social history of marijuana for Simon & Schuster.

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