drug reform

Welcome to Benzinga’s psychedelics headlines roundup. This is our pick of must-read news items from weeks three and four of January 2024. See previous edition Psychedelics Headlines: MDMA & Coping Skills In PTSD, LSD’s Perceived Risks, Knowledge Gaps, Surveys & More  Research...

Welcome to Benzinga's weekly psychedelics news roundup. We have pulled together several must-read news items from the last week of December 2023 and the first of January 2024.  Research Disorders due to substance use: Hallucinogens and MDMA-related...

The U.K.’s drug policy and reform is underway through several paths. On August 30, Parliament’s Home Affairs committee presented a report urging the reclassification of psilocybin mushrooms and other psychedelics to Schedule 2 to support the “growing body of evidence” with...

This story was originally written by Lucía Tedesco for El Planteo and appears here with permission. Translation from Spanish was provided by Benzinga's Lara Goldstein.  In a recent interview with MSNBC, actress Jamie Lee Curtis opened up about her personal struggle with...

Original article by Lucía Tedesco for El Planteo. Portugal’s Parliament recently decriminalized the use of synthetic drugs. The new law equates the legal treatment of these substances with that of classic drugs.  It further eliminates the criteria based on the number of doses to...

The psychedelics reform wave has arrived in Illinois, specifically Evanston where councilmember Devon Reid intends to advance a local decriminalization measure in an upcoming December 2022 committee meeting, reported Marijuana Moment. Reid’s bill recycles...

A recent poll, led by University of Maine professors R. Glover and K. Sporer during July and August 2021 and shared this week, found that of the 400+ Mainers, a majority believe the priority is to treat people who have opioid and general drug use disorders rather than punish them under...

Voters in the District of Columbia have approved an initiative that aims to effectively decriminalize the use of several psychedelic substances. Initiative 81 makes non-commercial possession, distribution, purchase and cultivation of psychedelic and hallucinogenic plants and fungi a lowest law...

By The Fresh Toast's Brendan Bures, provided exclusively to Benzinga Cannabis. Joe Biden updated his marijuana stance this week, although some advocates say the former VP hasn’t gone far enough. Joe Biden remains full of surprises when it comes to marijuana. The presumptive...