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Hazard of psychedelics
underplayed in article
Re: “A visit to therapeutic” (Web page A1, Aug. 27).
Your article within the East Bay Instances detailed the therapeutic energy of psychedelic medicine. To stability your article, you briefly quoted the warning of a mom who tragically misplaced her son to psychedelic medicine. However many of the article was dedicated to the “therapeutic” energy of those harmful medicine. You listed examples of how these medicine have been a dependable palliative for PTSD in firemen.
As a accountable newspaper, you wanted to state categorically and emphatically that these medicine can be utilized solely below strict scientific supervision the place the dosage is skillfully managed by skilled personnel. They don’t seem to be experimental medicine for an off-the-cuff consumer. I saved in search of such a cautionary assertion however didn’t discover it.
Silloo Tarapore
Lafayette
Bushes want protections
in turf watering invoice
The “turf watering prohibition” invoice, AB 1572, wants stronger language to guard timber. Many timber planted in turf rely solely upon grass irrigation as their solely supply of water. While you flip that off, the tree dies. You see this in HOAs that assume they’re being water-thrifty and eco-friendly, and inside 9 months all their timber and shrubs are useless too.
Hearth has already taken tens of thousands and thousands of timber in California; bark beetles, thousands and thousands extra. Bushes present shade and cooling that’s ever extra vital in a quickly overheating local weather. They “breathe in” carbon dioxide and exhale oxygen. They’re important in our battle towards local weather disruption in addition to making our city and suburban areas enticing and livable.
The invoice must be amended with stronger language to suggest or require (not simply permit) continued irrigation for timber and shrubs if irrigation to the grass is turned off.
Rosalie Howarth
Walnut Creek
Congress ought to cease
undermining IRA
One yr in the past, I sweated on the White Home garden when President Biden signed the Inflation Discount Act (IRA) — probably the most important motion to handle world warming in historical past. As we mark its first anniversary, the IRA is in hassle.
Tens of millions are threatened by the acute warmth and harmful fossil-fueled excessive climate we skilled this summer season. As a substitute of rapidly implementing the IRA and maximizing the billions of {dollars} it allotted for clear power and local weather resiliency, some Congress members are prioritizing polluting firms over the well-being of our communities by making an attempt to kill the IRA via this yr’s authorities funding course of.
Budgets are ethical paperwork — reflecting our values as a nation. Congressmembers’ makes an attempt to undermine local weather motion that Individuals assist counters our values. Urge Congress to cease blocking progress and totally fund the IRA. Heading off local weather catastrophe will save lives, there’s nothing extra helpful than that.
Susan Hendershot
Oakland
GOP’s lasting embrace
of Trump is disgusting
I watched the Republican debate final Wednesday. The query that I used to be keen to listen to was by no means introduced up, specifically, “Do you assume that the 2020 election was stolen?” Unbelievable. The difficulty is tearing our nation aside, they usually weren’t even requested for a present of fingers.
