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A groundbreaking drug law is scrapped in Oregon. What does that mean for decriminalization?
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A groundbreaking drug law is scrapped in Oregon. What does that mean for ...
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Gov. Tina Kotek said she will sign House Bill 4002. The bill covers a lot of ground. For instance, it makes it easier to prosecute drug dealing and to get ... Show more
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Oregon Gov. Kotek to Sign 'Unconscionable' Bill Recriminalizing Drugs: The landmark decriminalization measure passed by state voters in 2020 "now ...
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Oregon Gov. Kotek to Sign 'Unconscionable' Bill Recriminalizing ...
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Oregon’s opioid crisis: Why the state is going to recriminalize all drugs, including psychedelics like LSD, M…
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Oregon’s opioid crisis: Why the state is going to recriminalize all drugs ...
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Democratic states abandon soft drug laws, embrace strict policy: Questions of how to approach drug addiction, mental health and homelessness are dividing the ...
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Democratic states abandon soft drug laws, embrace strict policy
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Oregon Is Ready to Restart the Drug War: A radical three-year experiment in drug decriminalization is poised to end in the Pacific Northwest.
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Oregon Is Ready to Restart the Drug War
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Left Turn: Liberal Bastions Pivot to Tougher Stances on Drugs, Crime: Oregon, San Francisco and D.C. are taking aim at nuanced social problems with striking ...
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Left Turn: Liberal Bastions Pivot to Tougher Stances on Drugs, Crime
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Oregon Is Ready to Restart the Drug War: A radical three-year experiment in drug decriminalization is poised to end in the Pacific Northwest.
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Oregon Is Ready to Restart the Drug War
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Oregon Is Ready to Restart the Drug War: A radical three-year experiment in drug decriminalization is poised to end in the Pacific Northwest.
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Oregon Is Ready to Restart the Drug War
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San Francisco ties welfare to drug-screening, boosts police powers: In a bid to address the city's drug crisis — and the crime and homelessness that come with it ...
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San Francisco ties welfare to drug-screening, boosts police powers
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Balancing the books on N.Y’.s cannabis legalization: It’s easier to focus on a single complicated aspect of a new system, like dispensaries ...
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Balancing the books on N.Y’.s cannabis legalization
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Education Should Focus on Stopping Drug Use Before It Starts | Opinion: Efforts to prevent drug use and encourage kids to live free from drugs have come under ...
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Education Should Focus on Stopping Drug Use Before It Starts | Opinion
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Destigmatizing Drug Use Has Been a Profound Mistake: Blue America needs to send a stronger, more consistent message that hard drugs should be shunned.
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Destigmatizing Drug Use Has Been a Profound Mistake
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Drug decriminalization stumbled in Oregon. Other states are taking note.: PORTLAND — Just before Portland’s city council approved a ban on public drug use last ...
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Drug decriminalization stumbled in Oregon. Other states are taking note.
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Fentanyl killed 672 people in Fort Worth area. Will threat of murder charge stop dealers?
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Fentanyl killed 672 people in Fort Worth area. Will threat of murder ...
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Three years ago, Oregon decriminalized small amounts of hard drugs, including cocaine, heroin, and methamphetamine. Now even some of the policy’s supporters ... Show more
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Oregon Tried a Bold Experiment in Drug Policy. Early Results Aren’t Encouraging.: A bold reform effort hasn’t gone as planned.
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Oregon Tried a Bold Experiment in Drug Policy. Early Results Aren’t ...
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Oregon Tried a Bold Experiment in Drug Policy. Early Results Aren’t Encouraging.: A bold reform effort hasn’t gone as planned.
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Oregon Tried a Bold Experiment in Drug Policy. Early Results Aren’t ...
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How the ‘Zombie Drug’ Tranq Reveals the U.S. Drug Law Failure: It further complicates the fight against the opioid crisis—with deadly consequences for some.
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How the ‘Zombie Drug’ Tranq Reveals the U.S. Drug Law Failure
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What If America Decriminalized All Drugs?: Washington nearly joined Oregon in decriminalizing drugs. Whether the U.S. should, and how it might ...
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What If America Decriminalized All Drugs?
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How some families are banned from food stamps for life due to past drug convictions
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How some families are banned from food stamps for life due to past drug ...
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How MDMA Became the Club Drug of the Century: Seemingly overnight, it became the drug of nightlife.
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How MDMA Became the Club Drug of the Century
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Today's Drugs Are Anything but 'Recreation' | Opinion: Protecting public health and helping more individuals achieve healthy, drug-free lives must remain the top ...
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Today's Drugs Are Anything but 'Recreation' | Opinion
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Public health experts and most Democrats say a GOP-sponsored bill risks repeating mistakes made during the 1970s war on drugs.
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Overdose prevention centers are tough sell in U.S. despite successes: The supervised injection sites allow people to take illegal drugs like fentanyl under watch ...
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Overdose prevention centers are tough sell in U.S. despite successes
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As opioid crisis claims more lives, NYC unveils vending machine stocking overdose-reversing naloxone
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As opioid crisis claims more lives, NYC unveils vending machine stocking ...
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The next frontier of the drug crisis — xylazine: The Biden administration wants to show it has learned from the fentanyl crisis. Its first test is here.
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The next frontier of the drug crisis — xylazine
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U.S. Backs Study of Safe Injection Sites to Prevent Drug Overdoses: The grant provides more than $5 million over four years to New York University and Brown ...
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U.S. Backs Study of Safe Injection Sites to Prevent Drug Overdoses
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Can S.F. ever learn to shut up and follow the data on drugs?: A renewed push to jail people who use drugs wouldn’t work even if we wanted it to.
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Can S.F. ever learn to shut up and follow the data on drugs?
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Overdose prevention centers are tough sell in U.S. despite successes: The supervised injection sites allow people to take illegal drugs like fentanyl under watch ...
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Overdose prevention centers are tough sell in U.S. despite successes
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As Illinois explores psilocybin bill, Evanston blocks local proposal: Despite Reid’s referral not gaining support this time around, he told Pioneer Press he ...
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As Illinois explores psilocybin bill, Evanston blocks local proposal
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80+ Groups Mark 4/20 With Call for Biden to End Federal Marijuana Prohibition: The groups urged the president's administration to "take whatever steps ...
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80+ Groups Mark 4/20 With Call for Biden to End Federal Marijuana ...
Quick Glance: Heady Homebrew: Making Beer from Cannabis
  • Brewing Techniques Using Cannabinoids

  • Keith Villa, Ph.D. (author of Brewing with Cannabis) provides his advice on using cannabis compounds containing THC and CBD safely in the beermaking process.

  • Understand the many cannabis applications relevant to homebrewers, refute some of the prevalent cannabis fallacies and pseudo-science, and investigate potential opportunities in the cannabis beverage industry.

  • The following Brewers Publications titles contain everything a homebrewer needs to know to get started brewing with cannabis and hemp.
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'Tranq': The street drug designated as an 'emerging threat to the US' by the White House
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'Tranq': The street drug designated as an 'emerging threat ...
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The Fight Over a Drug That Is Great for Horses but Horrific for Humans: Drug dealers are mixing xylazine, an animal tranquilizer relied on by veterinarians ...
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The Fight Over a Drug That Is Great for Horses but Horrific for Humans
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Biden administration says fentanyl-xylazine cocktail is a deadly national threat: The White House says drug deaths linked to a mix of synthetic drugs including ...
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Biden administration says fentanyl-xylazine cocktail is a deadly national ...
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Congress moves to make xylazine a controlled substance: US lawmakers are moving to classify xylazine, the animal tranquilizer that's increasingly infiltrating ...
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Congress moves to make xylazine a controlled substance
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The Must-Have Gear for Going Out This Summer? Narcan!: With overdose deaths on the rise, it’s more important than ever to carry potentially life-saving ...
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The Must-Have Gear for Going Out This Summer? Narcan!
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Annapolis mom who lost son to drug overdose writes book, advocates for drug reform
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Annapolis mom who lost son to drug overdose writes book, advocates for ...
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Biden promise to crack down on fentanyl trafficking divides experts: Measures to combat overdose crisis include stiffer penalties but some worry it may signal a ...
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Biden promise to crack down on fentanyl trafficking divides experts
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San Francisco moves to allow non-profits to operate supervised drug injection sites
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San Francisco moves to allow non-profits to operate supervised drug ...
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Biden talks fentanyl crisis in Mexico: What experts say should be done to stop overdose deaths
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Biden talks fentanyl crisis in Mexico: What experts say should be done to ...
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As overdose deaths climb in NYC, East Harlem residents say a safe space for users is hurting their neighborhood
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As overdose deaths climb in NYC, East Harlem residents say a safe space ...
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Drug war destabilized S.F.’s Filipino community. Can cannabis heal it?: From gang member to gang mediator, an S.F. man wants to revitalize his Filipino community ...
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Drug war destabilized S.F.’s Filipino community. Can cannabis heal it?
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Nassau drug dealer convicted of heroin sale that led to 2018 overdose death: The dealer, James Tunstall, faces up to life imprisonment, following Tuesday's jury ...
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Nassau drug dealer convicted of heroin sale that led to 2018 overdose ...
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Sterilization, Execution, Labor Camps: Rhetoric Against Drug Users Is Escalating: Politicians are floating more and more extreme solutions to the U.S ...
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Sterilization, Execution, Labor Camps: Rhetoric Against Drug Users Is ...
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She sold a fatal dose of heroin. She’s also an addict who shouldn’t be in prison, critics say.
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She sold a fatal dose of heroin. She’s also an addict who shouldn’t be in ...
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Oregon Governor Pardons 45,000 Marijuana Offenders in Bid to 'Right the Wrongs' of Failed Drug War
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Quick Glance: The governor of Oregon has pardoned basic marijuana possession offenses.
  • Kate Brown (D) stated on Monday that she is pardoning earlier offenses for simple marijuana possession, clearing the records of almost 47,000 people.

  • Brown's pardon will be applied to electronically available records of Oregon convictions for marijuana possession of one ounce or less.

  • Brown's action comes around six weeks after President Biden stated that all federal charges for simple marijuana possession will be pardoned.

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Fentanyl deaths in Los Angeles county rose 1,280% from 2016 to 2021 – report: Last year’s death toll also marks a 31% increase from 2020 in LA’s epidemic that ...
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Fentanyl deaths in Los Angeles county rose 1,280% from 2016 to 2021 – ...
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When doing the obvious is impossible: Why are so many obviously failed public policies unable to be reformed?
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When doing the obvious is impossible