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Adult-Use Marijuana Facility Proposed in Brighton

Click through to learn more about Natural Selections’ proposal and to share your thoughts

Posted byQuinn DiazDecember 13, 2018January 3, 2019Posted inMarijuana Policy38 Comments on Adult-Use Marijuana Facility Proposed in Brighton

Dissuasion — the Portuguese Approach

Portugal has consolidated efforts to help people with addiction under a single public-health-oriented umbrella agency and relies heavily on medically assisted treatments for people with opioid addiction.

Posted byWill BrownsbergerOctober 18, 2018October 18, 2018Posted inDrug Policy38 Comments on Dissuasion — the Portuguese Approach

Marijuana Vote in Belmont on Tuesday

A yes vote will approve a new town Bylaw limiting the number of retail marijuana establishments in Belmont and prohibiting testing, manufacturing and cultivation facilities in Belmont.

Posted byWill BrownsbergerSeptember 22, 2018September 22, 2018Posted inMarijuana Policy19 Comments on Marijuana Vote in Belmont on Tuesday

Alexis Ivy

On July 24, Alexis Ivy read her poetry of homelessness and addiction in the statehouse.  Worth listening.

Posted byWill BrownsbergerAugust 4, 2018August 8, 2018Posted inDrug Policy, Homelessness, Women's Rights15 Comments on Alexis Ivy

Mandatory Minimum Sentences for Drug Crimes

Mandatory minimum sentences for drug crimes are a hot button issue in the conversation about criminal justice reform. Here is an explanation of the issue and how we treat it in the final criminal justice reform package signed by the Governor on April 13, 2018.

Posted byWill BrownsbergerMarch 24, 2018June 13, 2018Posted inCriminal Law, Drug Policy2 Comments on Mandatory Minimum Sentences for Drug Crimes

Once Opposed, Mass. Medical Society President Ready to Give SIFs a Try

MMS President, Dr. Henry Dorkin, authored an op-ed in STAT, a national health and medicine publication, earlier this month, charting the evolution of his thinking on establishing SIFs in Massachusetts, which he now supports.

Posted byQuinn DiazDecember 21, 2017December 21, 2017Posted inSafe Injection Facilities

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