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0829 US Cannabis component may fight psychosis
In a report published today in the American Medical Association journal JAMA Psychiatry, British scientists reveal how a non-intoxicating component of cannabis acts in key brain areas to reduce abnormal activity in patients at risk of psychosis, suggesting the ingredient could become an anti-psychotic medicine.
While regular use of high-T-H-C forms of cannabis by adolescents may increase the chances of developing psychosis, the chemical cannabidiol [canna-buh-DIE-ol], or C-B-D, appears to have the opposite effect.
C-B-D has also shown benefits in epilepsy, and is the main component in a new drug that has been approved by the F-D-A to treat pediatric epilepsy.
C-B-D also helps people with sore muscles and anxiety.
Researchers scanned the brains of thirty-three young people who were experiencing psychotic symptoms but had not been diagnosed with full-blown psychosis.
They found that giving these subjects CBD capsules reduced abnormal activity in the striatum, medial temporal cortex, and midbrain.
Abnormalities in all three of these brain regions have been linked to the onset of psychotic disorders such as schizophrenia.
CBD works differently from most current anti-psychotic drugs, which target the dopamine chemical signaling system in the brain.
C-B-D is also well tolerated, avoiding the adverse side effects such as weight gain and other metabolic problems associated with existing medicines.
The article, titled “Effect of Cannabidiol on Medial Temporal, Midbrain, and Striatal Dysfunction in People at Clinical High Risk of Psychosis,” is open access and available in full for free from the JAMA Psychiatry website.
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0829 US California Clean Energy
The California state legislature took a big step in the battle against climate change, approving a law that would require the state to have 100% of its electricity produced without fossil fuels by 2045.
California became the largest economy in the world to commit to a 100% clean energy grid.
Senate Bill 100 still needs senate approval, which is expected, and governor Jerry Brown’s signature.
Governor Brown has been under increased pressure to deal with climate issues, especially in light of the huge, continuing wild fires in his state.
The chief sponsor of S-B 100 was Democratic State Senator Kevin de León, who is challenging Dianne Feinstein for her U.S. Senate seat.
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0829 CA No More Cash Bail
California has become the first state in the nation to eliminate cash bail for people awaiting jail.
The state’s cash bail system was declared unconstitutional by a state appeals court last year.
Under the old system, people arrested and charged with a crime had to empty their savings or pay a bail bond agent to be released.
While that was no problem for people with sufficient means, those with low incomes or no savings could find themselves held behind bars until the end of their trial.
Criminal justice reform advocates have argued for decades that these cash bail systems force people to accept guilty pleas for crimes they did not commit, just to end the disruption to their lives from being incarcerated indefinitely awaiting trial.
Under this new law, local courts will decide who to keep in custody and whom to release awaiting trial based on the court’s discretion.
The California A-C-L-U withdrew its support from the bill at the eleventh hour because of concerns that judges will be allowed too much discretion under this new law.
An estimated seven thousand jobs in the bail bond industry could be affected, so the industry is expected to file suit to try and have the law overturned. ###
0829 CA Supervised Injection Bill Goes to Governor
Overdose prevention sites, safe consumption spaces, and supervised injection facilities are all names for a life-saving strategy that will soon be operating in the city of San Francisco.
These facilities are spaces where people who use drugs can do so in a safe, sanitary environment, overseen by healthcare professionals and medically trained staff.
This week, the California State Assembly this week approved Senate amendments to Assembly Bill 186, which will allow officials in the city and county of San Francisco to set up and operate these facilities.
The bill now goes to the desk of Governor Jerry Brown, who is expected to sign the measure into law.
Similar efforts are underway in several locations around the United States, including Portland.
On Monday, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein wrote an op-ed in the New York Times in which he warned cities and counties against harm reduction strategies.
Instead, Rosenstein suggested that communities instead stick with traditional law enforcement and “just say no” campaigns.
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0829 CA Supervised Injection Bill Goes to Governor
Overdose prevention sites, safe consumption spaces, and supervised injection facilities are all names for a life-saving strategy that will soon be operating in the city of San Francisco.
These facilities are spaces where people who use drugs can do so in a safe, sanitary environment, overseen by healthcare professionals and medically trained staff.
This week, the California State Assembly this week approved Senate amendments to Assembly Bill 186, which will allow officials in the city and county of San Francisco to set up and operate these facilities.
The bill now goes to the desk of Governor Jerry Brown, who is expected to sign the measure into law.
Similar efforts are underway in several locations around the United States, including Portland.
On Monday, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein wrote an op-ed in the New York Times in which he warned cities and counties against harm reduction strategies.
Instead, Rosenstein suggested that communities instead stick with traditional law enforcement and “just say no” campaigns.
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0829 INT Global Firearms Deaths On the Rise
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The number of firearms deaths around the world has increased dramatically in the past two decades, according to new research published by the Journal of the American Medical Association.
The study found that in 2016, a total of two hundred fifty-one thousand people died globally from firearms injuries in 2016, compared with two hundred and nine thousand in 1990.
The following audio report comes to us courtesy of the Journal of the American Medical Association, and features Doctor Daniel Webster, Director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Policy and Research.
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The article, Global Mortality from Firearms 1990 to 2016, is open access, and available in full from the Journal of the American Medical Association’s website.
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0829 INT Myanmar Rejects UN Genocide
Myanmar’s government has rejected the United Nations Report that accused them of genocide.
The UN called for Myanmar military officials to face war crime charges over their violent campaign against the minority Rohingya Muslim population.
The state-run Global Light of Myanmar newspaper reported that the allegations were false and denied the UN’s findings.
The newspaper wrote, QUOTE “We didn’t allow the FFM (the UN Fact-Finding Mission) to enter into Myanmar, that’s why we don’t agree and accept any resolutions made by the Human Rights Council.”
They added that the government has QUOTE “zero tolerance for human rights violation.”
They also said the country has set up its own Independent Commission of Inquiry in response to the accusations.
Since late 2016, around twenty-five thousand Rohingya have been killed in the violent campaign, and seven-hundred thousand have fled to neighboring Bangladesh.
According to the UN Human Rights Council, its fact-finding mission to Myanmar documented mass killings, large-scale gang rape and other sexual violence, grave violations against children, and the deliberate and systematic destruction of entire villages.
Because they received no cooperation from the Myanmar government and were not allowed to enter the country, the UN based its findings on indepth interviews with nearly nine hundred victims, satellite imagery analysis, and a range of authenticated documents, photos, and videos.
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NEWS FROM THE BOO
Wednesday, August 29, 2018
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Today on News From the Boo, we say goodbye to our Summer intern Sy, in an interview by another intern, Whitney. Sy will return to Centennial High School as a junior this Fall, and she will be missed. We wish her the best!
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0829 OR Audio Overflights
Wednesday, August 29, 2018
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Today at City Council, civil activists Gary Koonz, Sherry Caldwell, and Andrew Pritchard called for Portland’s aid in moving the Oregon Air National Guard, The Port of Portland, and the Oregon Legislature, to end chest-shaking military jet overflights.
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That was audio from today’s Portland City Council meeting, at which local residents asked for the city’s help in ending noisy Air National Guard overflights.
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0829 OR Health Advisory Cannon Beach
A health advisory was issued for the water at Cannon Beach.
The Oregon Health Authority says they found high levels of fecal bacteria in ocean waters and people should avoid any direct contact.
In a released statement the OHA wrote, QUOTE “While the advisory is in effect at Cannon Beach, visitors should avoid wading in nearby creeks, pools of water on the beach, or in discolored water, and stay clear of water runoff flowing into the ocean.”
Although the OHA did not give a specific reason, they did say that QUOTE “increased pathogen and fecal bacteria levels in ocean waters can come from both shore and inland sources such as stormwater runoff, sewer overflows, failing septic systems, and animal waste from livestock, pets and wildlife.”
Symptoms of exposure can be diarrhea, stomach cramps, skin rashes, upper respiratory infections, and other illnesses. Children and older people may be more vulnerable.
Health advisories have also been issued for Agate Beach, Nye Beach, and Harris Beach.
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0829 OR Wolf Pups in Cascades
Two wolf pups were caught on a trail camera in the Warm Springs Reservation in Oregon’s Northern Cascades.
The pictures were released by the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife.
In the photo the endangered White River Wolf pups can be seen alongside one parent.
These wolves are the first breeding pair since the animals returned to Oregon.
The animals were hunted and trapped to near extinction in the Pacific Northwest in the mid-twentieth century.
They only returned to Oregon in 2009 after being reintroduced in Idaho and Wyoming.
In 2017, Oregon had at least 124 wolves, mostly located in the northeast corner of the state.
Wolves in Western Oregon have federal protection under the Endangered Species act. However, on the Eastern half of the state, the animals can be killed if they have been shown to repeatedly prey on livestock.
The Executive Director of Cascadia Wildlands, Josh Laughlin, said QUOTE “Today, we let out a huge howl knowing that a wolf pack is rightly back on the landscape around iconic Mt. Hood after the species was systematically exterminated decades ago.”
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That’s followed at 7 by Combined Culture Radio, a program with a mission to help inspire and spread knowledge to the community.
Tonight’s Weather: increasing clouds with a low of 59 degrees. Tomorrow: mostly cloudy, with a twenty percent chance of drizzle and a high of 73 degrees.
This Day in History: in 2005, Hurricane Katrina made landfall near New Orleans, Louisiana. Katrina became the worst natural disaster in the history of the United States. Also on this day in history, in 2013, fast food workers in several US cities went on strike, demanding an increase in wages to fifteen dollars per hour.
Today’s quote is from Michael Eric Dyson, who said, “Hurricane Katrina overwhelmed levees and exploded the conventional wisdom about a shared American prosperity, exposing a group of people who didn’t have fifty dollars for a bus ticket out of town. If we want to learn something from this disaster, the lesson ought to be: America’s poor deserve better than this.”
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PO Justice Optimistic
Wednesday, August 29, 2018
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KBOO news poet Dan Raphael is optimistic, and that worries him.
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0829 US Cannabis component may fight psychosis
In a report published today in the American Medical Association journal JAMA Psychiatry, British scientists reveal how a non-intoxicating component of cannabis acts in key brain areas to reduce abnormal activity in patients at risk of psychosis, suggesting the ingredient could become an anti-psychotic medicine.
While regular use of high-T-H-C forms of cannabis by adolescents may increase the chances of developing psychosis, the chemical cannabidiol [canna-buh-DIE-ol], or C-B-D, appears to have the opposite effect.
C-B-D has also shown benefits in epilepsy, and is the main component in a new drug that has been approved by the F-D-A to treat pediatric epilepsy.
C-B-D also helps people with sore muscles and anxiety.
Researchers scanned the brains of thirty-three young people who were experiencing psychotic symptoms but had not been diagnosed with full-blown psychosis.
They found that giving these subjects CBD capsules reduced abnormal activity in the striatum, medial temporal cortex, and midbrain.
Abnormalities in all three of these brain regions have been linked to the onset of psychotic disorders such as schizophrenia.
CBD works differently from most current anti-psychotic drugs, which target the dopamine chemical signaling system in the brain.
C-B-D is also well tolerated, avoiding the adverse side effects such as weight gain and other metabolic problems associated with existing medicines.
The article, titled “Effect of Cannabidiol on Medial Temporal, Midbrain, and Striatal Dysfunction in People at Clinical High Risk of Psychosis,” is open access and available in full for free from the JAMA Psychiatry website.
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0829 US Gillums Florida Victory
It didn’t take long after progressive Andrew Gillum’s victory in Florida’s gubernatorial primary for his Republican opponent to draw national attention to the race.
Republican victor Ron DeSantis, referring to the African American Gillum, told Florida voters not “to monkey this up” by electing the Democrat.
During his campaign, DeSantis aligned himself with the White House, which gave him strong support.
Working without support from the Democratic Party, against a wealthy opponent, Gillum mobilized wide-spread grass roots support to create a large increase in voter turnout and a victory.
If he wins, Gillum will be Florida’s first black governor. ###
0829 US Seventy Two Thousand Drug Overdose Deaths in 2017
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0829 US Seventy Two Thousand Drug Overdose Deaths in 2017
The U-S Centers for Disease Control announced this month that approximately seventy-two thousand people died in 2017 from a drug overdose.
That’s a significant increase from 2016, when more than sixty-three thousand people died from a drug overdose.
Much of the growth in drug overdose deaths has been fueled by a synthetic opiate called fentanyl, and analogs of fentanyl, which have contaminated many street drugs, particularly heroin.
In the last year, however, there has also been a dramatic increase in deaths attributed to cocaine overdose, from nearly eleven thousand in 2016 to more than fourteen thousand in 2017.
Friday, August Thirty-First, is International Overdose Awareness Day.
Community members, families, and harm reduction activists around the world will hold memorials, demonstrations, and other events to remember those who have lost their lives to drug overdose.
People in the Portland area can attend the Overdose Awareness Day Memorial this Friday at Outside In.
Outside In is located at 1132 Southwest Thirteenth Avenue in Portland, and folks will gather there at six P-M in the courtyard, again that’s this Friday August Thirty-First.
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0829 WA Washington teacher strikes
Thousands of Southwest Washington students are getting their summer vacations extended, thanks to teacher strikes.
Classes did not start as scheduled this morning for 24,000 Vancouver Public Schools students, and 6,500 students in Longview Public Schools.
School was canceled yesterday for over 30,000 students in the Evergreen Public Schools and the Washougal School District.
Also yesterday, teachers and staff in Washington’s largest school district, Seattle, voted to authorize a strike unless an agreement is reached by the school years scheduled start date of September 5th.
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