Drug recriminalization in Oregon: 5 Questions for attorney Jon Dennis
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Drug recriminalization in Oregon: 5 Questions for attorney Jon Dennis
It wasn’t drug abuse that was put on the run, of course, but people like me, born into this regime of “stronger law enforcement.” The stiffer sentencing policies for drug crimes—not a net increase in crime—caused the American prison population to quadruple between 1980 and 2000.
Ibram X. Kendi • How to Be an Antiracist
Is the Controlled Substances Act really responsible for the general decline since 1970? We’re not sure, but what is clear is that drugs are foundational technologies, like the motor, combustion engine, semiconductor, or the concept of an experiment. New drugs lead to scientific revolutions. Some of those drugs, like coffee, continue to fuel fields ... See more
Slime Mold Time Mold • Higher than the Shoulders of Giants; Or, a Scientist’s History of Drugs
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The high cost paid by people of color from what we now call “the war on drugs,” may not have been an incidental byproduct but an unstated goal from the start.
Moises Velasquez-Manoff • Can CBD Really Do All That? (Published 2019)
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In all, more than a quarter-million Americans died from drug overdoses, alcohol, traffic accidents, and homicides in 2020, a rise of over fifty thousand. Those deaths primarily occurred in younger people.16 Even excluding traffic accidents, the rise in deaths of despair in people under fifty—not the total number, but the increase from 2019 to 2020—
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Higher than the Shoulders of Giants; Or, a Scientist’s History of Drugs
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How should psychedelics be legalized: the gas station model? The driver’s license model? The gun range model? (over the counter, after studying, or under supervision).
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illicit substance abuse should be regarded as a public health concern rather than a criminal justice matter,
Amy Wright Glenn • Holding Space: On Loving, Dying, and Letting Go
CBD might be a badly needed new weapon with which to fight the opioid epidemic that claims more than 130 lives daily in the United States.
Moises Velasquez-Manoff • Can CBD Really Do All That? (Published 2019)
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