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YOUR WORLD BENEATH THE SURFACE.
Just last year Maryland legalized recreational marijuana for sale and consumption. Now, lawmakers are opening a possible pathway for psychedelic substances to be less scrutinized by the law.
The House of Delegates passed a bill 136-1 this week to establish a task force that would look into the possibility of decriminalizing psychedelic substances and make recommendations about how the law should handle them.
The report would be due by July 2025.
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“This is actually an area that’s been studied far more than cannabis, whether for behavioral health issues related to post traumatic stress disorder, addiction broader behavioral health, depression issues, addiction, chronic pain, just another tool in the toolbox when you’re dealing with a treatments,” said Sen Brian Feldman (D-Montgomery County), a sponsor for the bill.
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Jason Woody has been leading B’More Clubhouse as its executive director for 11 years. The program – now housed in a historic Mount Vernon firehouse at the intersection of Calvert and Read streets – is…
Starting this fall, Johns Hopkins University students from families earning less than $300,000 will have their tuition completely covered by a $1 billion gift from Bloomberg Philanthropies.
The Chesapeake Bay earned a C+, its highest grade since 2002, on a report card from the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science.
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