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“The FDA says this is the first drug approved in the U.S. that contains a purified substance derived from marijuana.” NPR: FDA Green Lights Marijuana-Based Pharmaceutical Drug.

+ It’s taken decades to approve the first marijuana-based drug with no major side-effects. Meanwhile, other drugs with potentially deadly side-effects are being rushed to market by the FDA.

+ Buzzfeed: Meet The Kratom Warriors Who Say This Plant Will End The Opioid Epidemic. “There’s just one problem. The government is in secret talks to possibly ban the plant, suspecting that kratom is not the answer to the opioid crisis, but the start of a new one.”

+ Vice: Psychedelics are going mainstream, because the mainstream needs them.