Well, well, well, (wellness), what have we hear? (Oogie Boogie Man)

Investing in psychedelics.

Philadelphia Nonprofit Opening Nation's First Supervised Injection Site Next Week

Philadelphia safe injection site

Emotions of a NIMBY character on display in this NPR feature (3 minute listen + transcript at the URL)

Cannabis policy in the news -Amsterdam

Cannabis policy in the news -Amsterdam

New vocabulary word for the day: gedoogbeleid

The municipality is particularly keen to dissuade foreign visitors from taking advantage of gedoogbeleid, “policy of tolerance”, towards cannabis.

Pronounciation: https://forvo.com/word/gedoogbeleid/

Cannabis policy in the news

Cannabis policy in the news

Stalin and Demerol

meperidine

Honest words from Sir David Goldberg

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/the-psychiatrist/article/professor-sir-david-goldberg/70F529C865F9EA0F41867F5124DA3E3C

CBD and social anxiety

This article from 2011 just surpassed an Altmetric threshold.

Hooked on Video Games?

Can one become addicted to video games?

Depends upon how you define the terms.

Andrew Przybylski says it’s an ‘epistemic dumpster fire’ with pathologizing of a generally benign hobby in a fashion that allows promotion of sham treatments.

Merry merry!

NPR transcript and 7-minute podcast

Heckman and powerpoint

Link to Powerpoint collection with Heckman example

More on Walter Pahnke

Seeing the world through eyes of others

Read:

https://raypeatforum.com/community/members/nestito.5085/

More is here:

https://raypeatforum.com/community/threads/poll-about-ayahuasca.20844/page-2

Brought to mind by the late Walter Pahnke, who was a pioneer in psychedelics research, and who shared his thoughts with me long ago.

Walter died July 1971, not long after I met him, an inexplicable scuba death.

An interesting cannabis consumer perspective

The question to the Quora community was:

Does smoking pot make you unhappy?

This answer was:

Old compounds: new indications

Leads for future medications development

Not sure it’s possible to understand the experience without reading the book. (A to -do list item).

sanity and madness

RIP, Mark

Obituary

I always enjoyed being on panels with Mark.

World Drug Report, 2019

World Drug Report link

Broaden your view beyond the US, but beware the politics and stigma-laden vocabulary and rhetoric.

Good public health advocacy: Opioids OD prevention

NYT Op-Ed

Latkin et al., 2018

Going around social media: 19th century nostrum

Not sure it is authentic.

Cannabis images: signs of our times

For a time you can see the video with this search:
@sideofricepilaf joint

I do not take responsibility for whatever else it dredges up.

Still shot of video: