Biography/Memoir

First, marijuana. Are magic mushrooms next?

In Oregon and Denver, where marijuana is legal for recreational use, activists are now pushing toward a psychedelic frontier: “magic mushrooms.” Tom Eckert, a Portland, Ore.-based therapist who leads the psilocybin decriminalization campaign with his wife, Sheri, said the proposed limitations on psilocybin use are important. “Psilocybin is generally safe, but it puts you in…

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Anthropology

Maybe white people shouldn’t take drugs from Indigenous cultures

*ECfES recognizes the direct human/plant relationship HERE. Of course, not all non-native people who take ayahuasca [or other potent plants]… [ingest it]… purely for recreational purposes; some want to pay homage to indigenous wisdom, [and also for other legitimate reasons] … [but generally speaking] white people’s drug usage in general [has been historically] filled with hypocrisies……

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Politics

A Beaverton couple is about to gather signatures to legalize the therapeutic use of psychedelic mushrooms in Oregon

In Oregon, possession of psilocybin is a misdemeanor offense, downgraded from a felony last year. “Psilocybin addresses huge issues such as depression and addiction,” Tom Eckert said then. “Psilocybin works for smoking cessation better than any other. This is a revolutionary thing. We have to be careful with it. We don’t want to screw it up.”…

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Anthropology

New data shows smoking marijuana is a dying trend

It seems that smoking marijuana is a dying trend. Now that more health-conscious cannabis consumers are searching for alternatives to inhaling their buzz, the cannabis industry has set its sights on this multi-billion dollar market with products destined to make pot-consumption more socially acceptable. ​In other legal states, pot-infused products are doing much of the…

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Spirituality

Sincerity, ‘religiosity’ challenged In ongoing Cannabis Church lawsuit

“People from organized religions were persecuting me for my belief in cannabis as sacrament. Demanding their secular members invade temples where believers obtain sacrament and learn the ways of peace, these persecutors relentlessly attacked with words of hatred and violence.” — from the sixth of “The Nine Epiphanies. LINK Thomas Fisher, representing the state, says…

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Spirituality

Mormons and pot

The large pharmaceutical companies don’t want easily available medical marijuana. That is no surprise and it’s easy to see their motivation. If approved through the “appropriate channels” and legalized as a prescription drug, it would probably be the most profitable drug ever to hit the market. What costs around $150 per ounce in those states…

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Politics

Canada plans to legalize weed – but will those convicted of crimes get amnesty?

Shall potent plant legalization merely become?… Socialism for the rich, capitalism for the poor? Privatizing profits and socializing losses? “Legalization without amnesty is oppressive monopolization.” -Campaign for Cannabis Amnesty LINK [Canadian President Justin] Trudeau has himself admitted to smoking marijuana as a sitting MP, and last year admitted that family resources and connections helped his…

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