April 19 is a Big Day Every Year for People Who Love Psychedelics as its the Anniversary of a Momentous, Stoned Bicycle Ride Taken in 1943 by Albert Hofmann, the Chemist Who First Synthesized Both LSD and Psilocybin
While working for Sandoz Pharmaceuticals in 1938, he had synthesized LSD from ergot, an invasive fungus that infects rye. Five years later he accidentally scratched some LSD into his skin. Intrigued by the mental changes he experienced, he purposefully ingested 250 mg of the drug a few days later; that was a whopper of a dose. Hofmann asked his lab assistant for help getting home. They both got on their bicycles, and the assistant escorted him to safety. Today on April 19 we celebrate that Hofmann made it home at all and that the psychedelic era was launched.
Top Senate Democrat marks 4/20 by calling for end to federal weed ban
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Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer marked 4/20, the unofficial marijuana holiday, on the Senate floor calling to end the federal cannabis ban.
“It’s as appropriate a time as any to take a hard look at our laws that have overcriminalized the use of marijuana and put it on par with heroin, LSD and other narcotics that bear little or no resemblance in their effects either on individuals or on society more broadly,” Schumer D-N.Y., said Tuesday.
“I believe the time has come to end the federal prohibition on marijuana in this country.”
House acts to allow legal cannabis businesses to accept credit cards, write checks
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Marijuana dispensaries like the Botanist Compassionate Care in Monroe Township would be able to accept credit cards under legislation that passed the U.S. House.Michael Mancuso | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com
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The U.S. House voted late Monday to allow federally regulated banks to provide credit cards, checking accounts and other financial services to legal marijuana businesses.
The Secure and Fair Enforcement, or SAFE, Banking Act, passed by a vote of 321-101, including 106 Republicans. As a sign of how non-controversial the issue has become, the bill was considered under an expedited track with limited debate and a two-thirds majority required for passage.
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Poll shows record support for legalizing weed across the nation
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Heather Randazzo, a grow employee at Compassionate Care Foundation s medical marijuana dispensary, trims leaves off marijuana plants in the company s grow house in Egg Harbor Township on March 22, 2019.AP
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A record percentage of U.S. voters say marijuana should be legalized, according to a poll released Thursday.
The Quinnipiac University Poll recorded its highest percentage ever, 70%, in support of legal weed, with 24% in opposition.
When the survey first asked the question in December 2012, 51% of registered voters answered yes and 44% answered no.
“This is not entirely surprising,” Quinnipiac Polling Analyst Tim Malloy said. “The whole country is trending this way”