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US CA: Award-Winning Pot Has Deep Purple Hue, Aroma of Sweet Berries
The Press Democrat, 15 Dec 2009 - In a sign of marijuana's growing legitimacy, more than 700 people braved bad weather Saturday for Mendocino County's sixth annual Emerald Cup awards ceremony, the culmination of a month of examining, tasting and smelling pot. The once clandestine event has emerged f ...
US CA: Humboldt County's Pot Culture Is a Boon for Some
Sacramento Bee, 12 Dec 2022 - ARCATA -- Stephen Gasparas was destined for this fog-chilled, redwood-shrouded coast -- America's most renowned region for legal cultivation of marijuana. He started growing skunky-smelling pot as a young man, in the closet of his mother's suburban Chicago home. Later h ...
US: Gang Violence Grows on an Indian Reservation
New York Times, 14 Dec 2022 - PINE RIDGE, S.D. -- Richard Wilson has been a pallbearer for at least five of his "homeboys" in the North Side Tre Tre Gangster Crips, a Sioux imitation of a notorious Denver gang. One 15-year-old member was mauled by rivals. A 17-year-old shot himself; anothe ...
US CA: Column: A Gentler Vision of 'Holy Death'
Los Angeles Times, 07 Dec 2022 - A GENTLER VISION OF 'HOLY DEATH' Santa Muerte Is Linked to Narcotics Trafficking in Mexico. As It Moves North, the Sect Takes on a New Age Glow. The prayer in Spanish sounded like one from an ordinary Catholic Mass. But the man who led it wore a coyote-skin headdress ...
Brazil: Edu: Psychedelic Sermons in the Amazon
The Meliorist, 19 Nov 2022 - In the murky depths of the Amazon, there is a rare combination of vine and plant geneses, when combined, they are among one of the most powerful hallucinogens known to man. Its many forms, which vary from brewer to brewer, are known as ayahuasca. The drug conjures up ima ...
UK: OPED: Can Mind-altering Drugs Have Mental Health Benefits?
Daily Telegraph, 16 Nov 2022 - New Studies Are Testing Whether Psychedelic Drugs Such As LSD and MDMA Can Treat OCD, Post Traumatic Stress and Cancer Related Anxiety. On September 19 this year, 12 people gathered in the suburban Hermsdorf district of Berlin for a group psychotherapy session that all ...
CN BC: Maple Ridge Matrix Program Cut
Maple Ridge News, 11 Nov 2022 - Maple Ridge's Matrix program for youth battling drug and alcohol addiction will be shut down next month as the Fraser Health Authority tightens spending in an attempt to balance its budget. The program offers drug counselling, detox, practical support, post-acute with ...
CN ON: Edu: OPED: Salvia Neither 'Party Drug' Nor Threat
The Ontarion, 29 Oct 2022 - Salvia Divinorum is a plant that has seen shamanic use as a visionary sacrament in Mexico and South America for centuries. It is a unique drug, as it is the only k-opioid receptor agonist, which has a strong hallucinogenic effect. Scientists have been very interested in r ...
CN BC: Homelessness Knows No City Borders
Vancouver Sun, 31 Oct 2022 - Problems Facing Downtown Eastside's Unhoused Are Challenges For All Levels Of Government This is a condensed version of Chapter 17 of the new book A Thousand Dreams: Vancouver's Downtown Eastside and the Fight for Its Future. ...
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