Every June 26, the United Nations commemorates the International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking, a date that has historically been used to reinforce discourses of control and punishment surrounding psychoactive substances. However, in recent years, this day has been reappropriated by civil society organizations around the world to highlight the devastating consequences of repressive policies and demand approaches focused on health, human rights, and social justice. The post In...| ICEERS
Language, in addition to communicating, can become an ideological tool. Words are not only vehicles of information, but also construct realities. And, in the field of drug policy, the words used determine who is criminalized, which practices are delegitimized, and which knowledge is rendered invisible. The post Words Matter: Decolonizing Language About Psychoactive Plants appeared first on ICEERS.| ICEERS
From DMT vapes to MDMA gummies, psilocybin mushroom chocolate bars, and LSD microdots, an expanding range of psychedelic Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) products is becoming increasingly available in the U.S. and Europe. The post The Booming Market For Psychedelic Consumer Packaged Goods first appeared on Lucid News. The post The Booming Market For Psychedelic Consumer Packaged Goods appeared first on Lucid News.| Lucid News
The future of ibogaine therapy was a central topic at the 2025 Psychedelic Science conference, where it was endorsed by former Texas governor Rick Perry and others. Other states are following suit, but some advocates worry about possible exploitation of the plant medicine. The post 2025: The Year of Ibogaine Therapy first appeared on Lucid News. The post 2025: The Year of Ibogaine Therapy appeared first on Lucid News.| Lucid News
In part 2 of our series on campaign finance, new complaints filed by former staffers of the Massachusetts Yes on 4 psychedelics initiative to the Massachusetts Office of Campaign and Political Finance appear to contradict assertions from a senior campaign advisor that payments were done in accordance with state law. The post Details of Alleged MA Initiative Campaign Finance Violations In New OCPF Complaints first appeared on Lucid News. The post Details of Alleged MA Initiative Campaign Finan...| Lucid News
The state of Arizona has allocated $10 million in funding for ibogaine research as part of the 2026 fiscal year budget.| Lucid News - Psychedelics, Consciousness Technology, and the Future of Wellness
Jacqueline Hackett, who earned a MPH from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, serves as deputy chief of staff for the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy| The Hub
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Two former campaign staffers of the failed Yes on 4 ballot initiative in Massachusetts have filed complaints with the state Office of Campaign and Political Finance alleging violations of campaign finance law.| Lucid News - Psychedelics, Consciousness Technology, and the Future of Wellness
Violet Butler, MJLST Note/Comment Editor Sex and drugs don’t mix. Or do they? A scroll on the popular LGBTQ+ hookup and dating app Grindr will...| LawSci Forum
When it comes to voting on psychedelics, there’s no messing with Texas. In this first column in the new series “The Psychedelic State(s) of America," Noah Daly and Jack Gorsline explore the roots of Texas' fast-moving psychedelic policy reform efforts, what the Texas Ibogaine Initiative aims to accomplish, and the future of psychedelic access in Texas beyond the scope of the state legislature.| Lucid News - Psychedelics, Consciousness Technology, and the Future of Wellness
Speakers at the 2025 Psychedelic Culture conference focused on the collective resilience of international plant medicine communities while noting that two presenters were not permitted to enter the U.S. and others were denied visas.| Lucid News - Psychedelics, Consciousness Technology, and the Future of Wellness
Today we launch the 2023-2024 Drugs at Crew report! The report is split into three parts: Part 1 – Drug Trends In Part 1 we discuss local, national and international trends. Part 2 – Drug-related Deaths In this part we take a deep dive through the statistics for drug-related deaths in Scotland and give context to the […]| Crew 2000
Massachusetts voters consider The Natural Psychedelic Substances Act which would legalize the possession and cultivation of certain psychedelics.| Lucid News - Psychedelics, Consciousness Technology, and the Future of Wellness
In the first part of a two-part series, Ann Harrison interviews addiction treatment expert Dr. Howard Kornfeld about the FDA decision to reject the Lykos Therapeutics proposal for MDMA-assisted therapy.| Lucid News - Psychedelics, Consciousness Technology, and the Future of Wellness
Prior to last week's FDA decision to reject Lykos Therapeutics' proposed MDMA-assisted therapy for PTSD, Rep. Jack Bergman (R-MI) reflected on the urgent need for better PTSD treatments to reduce veteran suicides and the game plan for lawmakers to keep support for psychedelic-assisted therapies moving forward.| Lucid News - Psychedelics, Consciousness Technology, and the Future of Wellness
by Victoria Litman, M.Div., J.D., LL.M. On May 21, 2024, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) published a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) signed by Attorney General Merrick Garland in the Federal Register. This publication kicks off a 62-day comment period on a rule that would move marijuana to Schedule 3 of the Controlled Substances Act| Bill of Health
Despite the common refrain that jails and prisons are de facto treatment facilities, most prioritize punitive mail scanning policies and strict visitation rules that fail ...| www.prisonpolicy.org
Unfortunately, this year saw the return of many types of failed criminal legal system policies that would be more at home in 1993 than 2023. ...| www.prisonpolicy.org
