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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) declined on Friday to approve MDMA-assisted psychotherapy as a treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The agency has asked Lykos Therapeutics, which submitted the new drug application (NDA) in February, to conduct an additional Phase 3 clinical trial, which would take years and millions of dollars. It is a major setback that dismayed veteran advocates and others who see MDMA as a potentially life-changing psychotherapeutic catalyst for people struggling with longstanding psychological challenges that currently approved treatments have not ad...
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A new meta-analysis of 148 studies estimates that 9.3 percent of patients who receive opioid prescriptions for chronic pain experience "dependence" or "opioid use disorder" (D&OUD). The authors, Kyla Thomas and six other researchers at Bristol Medical School in England, also calculated prevalence rates for "signs and symptoms" of D&OUD (29.6 percent), "aberrant behavior" (22 percent), and those deemed "at risk" of D&OUD (12.4 percent). They conclude that "problematic pharmaceutical opioid use appears to be common in chronic pain patients treated with opioid analgesics, with nearly one in 10 ex...
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Vice President Kamala Harris' selection of Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as her running mate, Marijuana Moment's Kyle Jaeger notes, means that "the ticket now consists of two candidates who support marijuana legalization"—a "historic first." Walz actually arrived at that position before Harris did. His record as a congressman from 2007 through 2018, a period when Harris was still laughing at the very idea of legalization, includes several votes in favor of marijuana reform, and he ran for governor in 2017 on a promise to "create a system of regulation and taxation for adult-use marijuana." As govern...
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Last May, the Department of Justice (DOJ) proposed a rule that would move marijuana from Schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act, the most restrictive category, to Schedule III, which includes prescription drugs such as Tylenol with codeine, ketamine, and anabolic steroids. The public comment period for that proposed rule expired yesterday. According to an analysis by the Drug Policy Alliance, most of the commenters thought the DOJ proposal was too timid: Nearly 70 percent of the 30,000 or so comments favored "descheduling, decriminalizing, or legalizing marijuana at the federal level." Th...
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You probably have never heard of 2,5-dimethoxy-4-iodoamphetamine) (DOI), let alone heard that it is commonly abused. Yet the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) wants to ban the synthetic psychedelic, a promising research chemical that has figured in more than 900 published studies, by placing it in Schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act, a category supposedly reserved for drugs with a high abuse potential and no recognized medical applications—drugs so dangerous that they cannot be used safely, even under a doctor's supervision. Students for Sensible Drug Policy (SSDP), which defeated ...
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When the Supreme Court rejected a challenge to the federal law that disarms people who are subject to domestic violence restraining orders last month, its ruling was narrow. "Our tradition of firearm regulation allows the Government to disarm individuals who present a credible threat to the physical safety of others," Chief Justice John Roberts wrote for the majority in United States v. Rahimi, which overturned a 2023 decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit. The justices left for another day the question of whether the Second Amendment allows the government to disarm people w...
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More than two decades ago, Natalie Burke, a legal immigrant from Jamaica, was convicted of transporting and selling marijuana in Arizona. Although that is now a legal business in her state, and despite a pardon that Burke received from Arizona's governor last year, her life has been thrown into limbo by the federal government's determination to deport her based on her drug record. That attempt to exile Burke, which led to a year and a half of immigration detention and years of stress, has caused ongoing anxiety that may have contributed to a stroke she suffered while fighting to stay in the co...
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Why is marijuana legalization such a mess in New York? The answer seems clear: The rollout of licensed dispensaries has been "a disaster," as Gov. Kathy Hochul puts it, because of misguided policies and bureaucratic ineptitude. But Manhattan Institute Fellow Charles Fain Lehman is unsatisfied by that explanation. He prefers one that makes little sense but gives him an excuse to discuss "the real problem with legal weed": that marijuana addiction is more common and severe than people tend to think. In a recent New York Times Magazine article, Lehman argues that Americans generally do not take t...
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After OxyContin manufacturer Purdue Pharma filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2019, members of the Sackler family, which controlled the company, arranged a resolution that included personal protection from civil liability for contributing to opioid-related deaths. That shield was part of a mass settlement that promised myriad litigants a total of $6 billion. The Supreme Court narrowly rejected that deal today. "The bankruptcy code does not authorize a release and injunction that, as part of a plan of reorganization under Chapter 11, effectively seeks to discharge claims against a nondebtor wit...
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In June 2022, the Supreme Court clarified the constitutional test for gun control laws, saying they must be "consistent with this Nation's historical tradition of firearm regulation." To illustrate the public safety implications of that ruling, Bloomberg Law reported last year that the decision had "forced the Justice Department to abandon a firearms charge against an Iranian American drug user with suspected ties to foreign terrorism." As reporters Ben Penn and Seamus Hughes told it, "The firearm charge against Ali Hemani, 26, appears to have served the same purpose as when it's often brought...
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