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Psychedelics Today has graced me once more with publication of another of my articles, The Farmer and The Cowman Should Be Friends: Why the Pharmaceutical Industry and Grassroots Reformists Should Join Forces. "Our regular contributor on legal matters explains how the nascent psychedelic pharmaceutical industry and [...]

Episode 2021-006 - Interview: Pollen Sense On this episode, I interview Landon Bunderson, PHD and Kevn Lambson  of Pollen Sense. They discuss new atmospheric pollen sensing technologies and the costly threats that fugitive pollen and other contaminants pose to the cannabis industry. Part 1:  https://youtu.be/jXjQzQVjmfQ [...]

The Marijuana Industry Trade Association is producing a free education series on Social Equity, in the run up to the Arizona Department of Health Services' issuance of 26 social equity licenses under its new recreational marijuana program later this Spring. This is my second appearance [...]

The Marijuana Industry Trade Association is producing a free education series on Social Equity, in the run up to the Arizona Department of Health Services' issuance of 26 social equity licenses under its new recreational marijuana program later this Spring. I have been invited to [...]

Here are links to my two-part interview of Kathryn Tucker, Esq., one of the country's top legal experts on rights of the dying.  Kathryn and I spend an hour discussing her latest efforts to apply Right to Try laws to permit palliative use of Schedule [...]

Psychedelica Lex Episode 2021-001: A Review of Idaho Senate Joint Resolution No. 101  to Constitutionally Ban Psychoactive Medicines  - on the Psychedelica Lex YouTube Channel

Chacruna has graced me once again, by publishing another of my articles.  In December 2020, the United States Supreme Court issued its decision in Tanzin v. Tanvir, 592 U.S. ___ (2020).  The case confirms that psychedelic religions have an additional tool to fight government discrimination, namely [...]

My latest article,  Tips for Businesses in the Wake of Proposition 207, published this week in inBusiness magazine. Do check it out.

Psychedelics Today was gracious to publish my article outlining my proposal for a uniform plant and fungi medicine act. You can read it here:   Uniform Model Law on Plants and Fungi Medicines: A Better Path to Reregulation – Psychedelics Today With publication of that article, [...]

In December 2020 (auspiciously, at the start of Hanukkah) I had opportunity to interview Adriana Kertzer, Esq. about her law practice in her all-women/all immigrant-owned New York firm, Plant Medicine Law. Born in Brazil, and Jewish, Adriana has a deep interest in the nexus between [...]

The Arizona Bar Convention took place in the first week of December 2020. I was the Arizona Cannabis Bar Association Panel Chair, so I made the a video. Mind, these are six questions aimed specifically at Arizona's just-passed Proposition 207, Arizona's recreational cannabis initiative.

Psychedelica Lex Episode 19: Interview of Dr. Bryon Adinoff, addiction psychiatrist. In late November 2020 I had opportunity to chat with Dr. Bryon Adinoff on his views of drug policy and reform, following his more than 30 years in the trenches a as a national [...]