Apr. 11 Larry Jefferson, a long-serving Thurston County public defense attorney, is taking over as director of the state Office of Public Defense (OPD). The justices of the state Supreme Court appointed Jefferson to replace retired director Joanne Moore, who has served for 23 years, according to a Friday news release. As director, Jefferson will administer state-funded programs that offer .
Washington state led on legalizing marijuana. Plant-derived psychedelics could be next.
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In this Friday, May 24, 2019 photo a vendor bags psilocybin mushrooms at a pop-up cannabis market in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel)
Tatiana Luz first ingested mushrooms containing psilocybin in 2018. It was life-changing.
“I feel like I’ve lived a pretty normal life. I’m a pretty resilient person,” she says. “But when it came to the residuals of trauma, I never knew how much it was affecting me until I had my first psychedelic experience.”
As a child in northern New Jersey, Luz experienced domestic violence over a number of years. She never got to know her father, who, she says, was a casualty of the war on drugs. As an adult, she was barely aware of how these childhood experiences had shaped her, making it hard to trust people or initiate meaningful relationships. Psilocybin changed that. “It really awakened me to the constructs that my body and my mind had created t
Time running out as lawmakers race to fix drug possession law tossed by state high court Matt Markovich, KOMO News reporter
Time running out as lawmakers race to fix drug possession law tossed by state high court
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The clock is running down for a fix to the drug possession law that was thrown out by the Washington State Supreme Court in February, stripping local law enforcement agencies of the ability to make arrests for that charge.
One bill in the state legislature appears to be emerging as a middle of the road, Goldilocks consensus proposal because it has something that may please everyone who has an interest in the law. But that could mean the legislation has too much in it for all sides to reach agreement.
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