Today’s guest editorialist Percy Menzies is the founder of the Assisted Recovery Centers of America, which is based in St. Louis. He’s also a subject of my upcoming documentary Antagonist, about the under-used opioid (and alcohol) treatment drug naltrexone. The doc is going well: We’ve been interviewing some of the best-regarded experts in addiction treatment from around the country, both in favor of, and critical of, naltrexone. In early July I’m traveling to San Francisco to talk to noted scientists and shoot the scene on the ground in the Tenderloin. Please
In Vancouver, BC a group has been using cannabis to get people off deadlier drugs, The Cannabis Substitution Program.
They're currently being charged for trafficking (in a country with federally legal cannabis) for doing it. Criminals for saving lives.
Free the weed. Free the people.