Students For Sensible Drug Policy at Loyola Chicago

03/13/2019

SSDP Loyola Chicago is co-hosting a FREE documentary screening of W**d the People next Monday, March 18th at 8pm in the Damen Cinema!
W**d the People is a heartfelt story about children with cancer utilizing the healing powers of cannabis.
Hope to see you there!!

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NSXz3bsG1c

02/06/2018

Interested in fighting the war on drugs and reforming drug policy across the nation? Join SSDP for an opportunity to learn more about how federal drug policy is impacting society and our day to day lives. We are currently in the works of scheduling our first meeting and hope to see new faces this semester. Stay tuned for dates and locations!

07/03/2017

Any Loyola students want to join the e-board for leadership positions?

11/22/2016

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11/09/2016

Thank you to everyone for making this happen. This is a big step to end the war on drugs, and is solid proof that your vote is not useless.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/news/wonk/wp/2016/11/08/medical-ma*****na-sails-to-victory-in-florida/?client=safari

But it faces considerable uncertainty under a presumptive Trump administration.

10/17/2016

http://www.npr.org/2016/10/16/498171533/youre-about-to-see-a-lot-more-cuban-ci**rs-in-the-u-s

David Savona of Cigar Aficionado talks about the lifting of restrictions on importing ci**rs from Cuba, and why Cuban ci**rs are so special to smokers.

10/13/2016

Progress is made!

The DEA is reversing its 'insane' decision to ban the op**te-like plant kratom -- for now.

10/06/2016

'Nothing in the medical legislation limits the number of cultivation licenses a single entity can hold, and nothing in the medical legislation requires regulators to assess whether issuance of licenses could lead to a monopoly or anti-competitive behavior — as is the case with Proposition 64,' Kinney said."

Come November, medical pot dispensary operator Lanette Davies won’t be joining others in her industry in voting for Proposition 64, a measure that would legalize the recreational use of ma*****na.

10/06/2016

Even though magic mushrooms and L*D are illegal in many countries, Lily views them as safer than her legal meds. Not only are the doses small and infrequent, she has found no evidence that psychedelics are physically addictive. "I don't think we're going to find out that microdosing f***s up your liver," she says.

http://www.wired.co.uk/article/lsd-microdosing-drugs-silicon-valley

Under pressure to perform, Silicon Valley champions are taking tiny hits of L*D before heading to work. Are they risking their health or optimising it?

09/07/2016

"Schedule I drugs, substances, or chemicals are defined as drugs with no currently accepted medical use and a high potential for abuse.

This is not true for Kratom, it has been shown numerous times in reports from users to help recovering Op**te addicts, treat pain, combat depression and anxiety, and much more. Deaths that involve Kratom being a persons' system have always been from the result of mixing Kratom with other drugs, rather than Kratom alone. In states that banned Kratom, Alabama specifically, op**te usage and deaths went up after Kratom was banned in the state. Please stop the DEA from scheduling Kratom as Schedule I, there are many people who will suffer from this."

Schedule I drugs, substances, or chemicals are defined as drugs with no currently accepted medical use and a high potential for abuse. This is not true for Kratom, it has been shown numerous times in reports from users to help recovering Op**te addicts, treat pain, combat depression and anxiety, and...

03/30/2016

This decision is problematic, to say the least.

"Drug dealers are murderers," Lycoming County coroner Charles Kiessling says. "They need to be prosecuted as murderers."

02/29/2016

"'What we have to do is we have to change our views, we have to change the way in which we approach things. The whole purpose of any drugs policy must be to minimise the harm that those drugs cause to individuals, to our communities. It also needs to optimise the benefits that drugs could bring,' he added, referring to the medicinal uses of cannabis."

Law Enforcement Against Prohibition pressure group says current policy on drugs doing more harm and urges reform