Drug recriminalization in Oregon: 5 Questions for attorney Jon Dennis

Home Secretary: You can’t compare harms from an illegal activity with a legal one. Nutt: Why not? Home Secretary: Because one’s illegal. Nutt: Why is it illegal? Home Secretary: Because it’s harmful. Nutt: Don’t we need to compare harms to determine if it should be illegal? Home Secretary: You can’t compare harms from an illegal activity with a leg

For more than 7,000 years, hallucinogens, also known as psychedelics (magic mushrooms, ayahuasca, peyote), have had sacramental uses across diverse cultures. When hallucinogens became popular and widely available as recreational drugs in the counterculture movement of the 1960s, however, harms multiplied, leading to LSD being made illegal in most p

An ongoing controversy in the field of addiction medicine is whether people who have been using drugs in an addictive way can return to moderate, nonrisky use.

He believes you can only ethically give out drugs if you are also at the same time trying to solve the deeper problem.