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Psilocybin: Next to treat depression, OCD and nicotine addiction

Alison Knopf

Alcoholism & Drug Abuse Weekly September 24, 2021 DOI: 10.1002/adaw.33204 (opens in new tab)

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Characteristics Historical analysis Peer reviewed
Topics Addiction Cannabis Psilocybin Depression
Keywords Nicotine addiction Advertising
Key points Argues that the marijuana industry lobbied to restrict home cultivation in legalized states to maintain profitability by creating artificial scarcity.

Abstract

First it was the plant, cannabis. How could this be made into a saleable profit‐making commodity when it grows in the ground? Witness the marijuana (a chemical from the plant) industry, which lobbied to make sure laws in states that legalized it banned people from growing more than a few plants.

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