Veriheal

MARCH 20, 2023

Psilocybin Policies Around the Nation Let’s explore where psilocybin is legal, decriminalized, and on the ballot across U.S. Decriminalized Decriminalization does not mean psilocybin is legal. Smith cited results from clinical trials showing that MDMA holds promise in the treatment of PTSD. Missouri Rep.

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Cannabis Law Report

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Senate Bill 519 would have decriminalized the personal possession of certain psychedelic substances, legalized life-saving public health interventions, and studied future approaches to increasing use of psychedelics. However, the Assembly Appropriations Committee stripped the primary intention from the bill.

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The Cannigma

MAY 19, 2021

While many countries around the world have legalized or decriminalized cannabis or have eased up on enforcement in recent years, in Japan in 2018 there was a sharp increase in cannabis-related arrests — and 80% of them were possession charges. That could potentially change in the near future, however. The future of weed legalization in Japan.

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Cannabis Law Report

JULY 9, 2021

Not only are more and more jurisdictions decriminalizing the use of psychedelics for recreational purposes, but it appears that psychedelic substances are the new horizon for the treatment of severe psychological disorders and other ailments. Published Via JD Supra. The state of the law on psychedelic substances is in flux. Id ; 21 CFR 312.1-10;

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Veriheal

JUNE 29, 2021

This Act permits individuals that have been diagnosed with life-threatening conditions or diseases that have exhausted all other approved treatment and therapeutic options that are also unable to participate in clinical trials the ability to access certain treatments that would otherwise be unapproved for access.

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Cannabis Law Report

MAY 31, 2022

The only psychedelic drug that is approved (outside of clinical trials) for psychiatric use—as opposed to anesthesia—through the traditional medical system is Ketamine. These therapists will likely benefit from further decriminalization measures and may be able to transition to state-regulated systems as these go live.

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Cannabis Law Report

JANUARY 7, 2020

PsychedeliTech is our newest “Incubaby” designed to create a global ecosystem to accelerate psychedelic innovation by investing in research, education and clinical trials. The first PsyTech Summit Global Event will take place in Tel Aviv on March 29-30, 2020.

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Canna Law Blog

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

took significant steps to decriminalize or legalize medical or recreational marijuana. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) granted permission for a Canadian marijuana company (Tilray) to export medicinal cannabis to University of California San Diego for clinical trial. Many countries (e.g., market to imported marijuana.

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Cannabis Law Report

JULY 1, 2021

Clinical trials repeatedly demonstrate their promise for treating mood, anxiety, and substance use disorders. cities and the State of Oregon have decriminalized them, and last November, Oregon voters legalized the supervised administration of psilocybin. Background. Due to their therapeutic and commercial potential, the U.S.

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Cannabis Law Report

JULY 9, 2021

federal law, despite this prohibition, a limited number of states have either sought to decriminalize or authorize the medical use of certain psychedelic drugs and substances in limited circumstances. While the medical and adult use of certain psychedelic drugs and substances are generally prohibited under U.S.

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Cannabis Law Report

JUNE 29, 2021

I have watched Rick Doblin over the past thirty-fiveyears take on what seemed impossible, that is, to change people’s minds about psychedelics and pave a path to decriminalization, regulation, and medical research,” shared Deborah Parrish Snyder, Publisher and CEO at Synergetic Press.

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SpeedWeed

JULY 31, 2021

Casey Weinstein and Terrence Upchurch, both representing Northeast Ohio districts, first introduced their 180-page bill two weeks ago, which includes four major components: decriminalization, a cannabis excise tax, commerce and licensing, and medical cannabis. The time is now, and I look forward to getting this done in a bipartisan fashion.”.

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The Cannigma

AUGUST 31, 2021

The researchers stated that these knowledge gaps must be addressed and that “clinical trial data about how medical cannabis improves patient quality of life domains is desperately needed as this information can impact clinical decision-making.”.

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Canna Law Blog

MARCH 4, 2020

Recently, the decriminalization of psilocybin (by various cities) has been in the news as an emerging medicine. Similar to ketamine, psilocybin has shown great promise in clinical trials for helping to effectively treat depression and PTSD (and we’ve written about psilocybin several times on this blog, including here and here ).

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SpeedWeed

JULY 6, 2021

The US Food and Drug Administration is also currently sponsoring clinical trials that could lead to the federal legalization of psilocybin- and MDMA -assisted therapy within the next two years.

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Cannabis Law Report

MARCH 7, 2019

Switzerland’s government will allow 5,000 citizens to use cannabis legally, as part of a country-wide clinical trial. Those who sign up to the trial would receive a small amount of cannabis each month, to smoke or eat. In 2013, Switzerland decriminalized possession of small amounts of cannabis, 10 grammes or less.

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Cannabis Law Report

AUGUST 7, 2022

In recent years, as more clinical trial results show that psychedelics can be used in conjunction with therapy to treat illnesses like depression and post-traumatic stress disorder, legislators pushed to make certain substances available in certain settings. But these substances remain illegal under federal law.

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Cannabis Law Report

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Forbes reported on Hopkins researchers’ recommendation that, if psilocybin should clear Phase III clinical trials, the FDA should reclassify it from a Schedule I to a Schedule IV drug. Dr. Johnson speaks with Denver NBC News, offering his thoughts on the Denver initiative to decriminalize psilocybin.

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Cannabis Law Report

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Psilocybin’s therapeutic benefits are so promising that Denver, Colorado became the first city to decriminalize psilocybin in May 2019, and in 2020, Oregon passed Measure 109, which paved the road for a program allowing for legal manufacture, delivery, and administration of psilocybin to clients at supervised, licensed facilities in the state.

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Cannabis Law Report

JANUARY 14, 2020

The MORE Act would decriminalize marijuana and THC at the federal level by removing it from Schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act, which currently classifies it as an addictive drug that has no accepted medical use, akin to heroin. 1151, Veterans Medical Marijuana Safe Harbor Act.

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SpeedWeed

JULY 7, 2021

Peyote is now considered an extremely endangered species, and even though some cities have passed laws decriminalizing the use of natural psychedelics, most continue to prohibit peyote in order to respect its endangered status. View original article.

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SpeedWeed

SEPTEMBER 4, 2021

“DEA is proposing significant increases to the APQs of the schedule I substances psilocybin, psilocin, marihuana, and marihuana extract, which are directly related to increased interest by DEA registrants in the use of hallucinogenic controlled substances for research and clinical trial purposes,” the DEA writes. .

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Cannabis Law Report

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Decriminalization and legalization of medical marijuana in some countries have led to significant shrinkage in the black market. Global Legal Cannabis Industry: Number of Clinical Trials, By Region. Moreover, the high efficacy of marijuana-derived CBD is one of the pivotal factors accountable for the segment’s large share.

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Cannabis Law Report

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

13, 2021 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ — A host of scientific research and clinical trials around the world are affirming the remarkable effectiveness of psilocybin, the principal psychoactive component of “magic mushrooms,” in the treatment of a variety of medical conditions, including depression, anxiety, addiction, and PTSD.

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Otherside Farms

SEPTEMBER 28, 2019

FDA requires large-scale clinical trials to determine the benefits and risks of the plant but no such trials have come about. It has been decriminalized in 15 states and legalized in 11 states. In addition, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has not approved marijuana as medication. Medical Marijuana.

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Cannabis Law Report

MARCH 2, 2020

In lockstep with the FDA’s more open-minded approach toward psychedelic medicine, Denver, Oakland, and Santa Cruz all decided to decriminalize magic mushrooms. This flurry of clinical activity and growing public interest in pyschedelic medicine is expected to spark a handful of initial public offerings (IPOs) soon.

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MMJ Recs

JULY 3, 2024

Federally, the 2018 Farm Bill decriminalized hemp-derived CBD with less than 0.3% A review of clinical trials and meta-analyses suggests that CBD may reduce anxiety symptoms in individuals with generalized anxiety disorder (GAD), social anxiety disorder (SAD), and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

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The Blunt Truth

AUGUST 13, 2019

331(ll)), the FDA prohibits the sale of products containing an ingredient that has been treated as a drug or involved in clinical trials, without prior FDA approval. One such exemption is that the drug was marketed in food before any approval and before substantial clinical investigations involving the ingredient were instituted.

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Cannabis Law Report

JULY 9, 2022

In Michigan, right next door to Indiana where Thornton lives, three cities have decriminalized psychedelics for personal use. Another neighboring state, Illinois, has opened up discussions about statewide psychedelic decriminalization. In Indiana, on the other hand, psychedelics are primarily viewed as illegal, dangerous substances.

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The Cannigma

AUGUST 26, 2021

Medical: Legal Recreational: Illegal (though at least one territory has adopted decriminalization). These products can only be accessed through the Special Access Scheme by an authorized healthcare practitioner, or as part of a clinical trial, according to the Office of Drug Control. Costs of medical marijuana.

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Cannabis Law Report

MAY 19, 2019

But in recent years, some nations have adopted a different strategy, of decriminalizing marijuana usage as a way of combating it. In countries as varied as the Netherlands, Germany, Mexico, Peru, and Canada, the emphasis has shifted towards the decriminalization of marijuana. Underlining supplied for emphasis).

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Cannabis Law Report

JULY 12, 2019

There is an apparent reluctance amongst NHS doctors to prescribe medicinal cannabis prior to more data being available from UK based randomised controlled clinical trials; Analytical Cannabis highlights how the NHS has not issued a single prescription since the law was passed in 2018.

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Cannabis Law Report

JULY 21, 2022

By decriminalizing cannabis at the federal level, the CAOA also ensures that state-legal cannabis businesses or those in adjacent industries will no longer be denied access to bank accounts or financial services simply because of their ties to cannabis.

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Cannabis Law Report

JUNE 30, 2019

Lou Correa (D-CA) that would require the VA to conduct clinical trials on the therapeutic potential of cannabis in the treatment of such service-related conditions as post-traumatic stress disorder and chronic pain. The panel also took up a bill sponsored by Rep.

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The Cannigma

MARCH 12, 2021

We’re not going to get over the fact that there’s not the same sort of clinical trial and that type of evidence for cannabis and cannabis treatments in the very near future for various reasons. There’s the one drug, one target, cannabis is multiple active ingredients and acts on multiple targets in the body.

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Cannabis Law Report

JUNE 10, 2021

Marijuana Decriminalization, Medical Marijuana Laws, and Fatal Traffic Crashes in US Cities, 2010–2017. 9-tetrahydrocannabinol on driving performance: a randomized clinical trial. Fatal crashes in the 5 years after recreational marijuana legalization in Colorado and Washington. Accident Anal Prev. 2019;132:105284.

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Canna Law Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

We discussed how licensed facilities won’t be up and running for a few more years, and how, in the meantime, people will have to make do with general decriminalization under Measure 109 and maybe, in certain cases, reliance on Right to Try access. Unlike with many precursor state laws, no institutional review board review is required.

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