The psychedelics reform movement is quietly advancing throughout the country, with four more major cities poised to take up proposals to decriminalize [entheogens] such as psilocybin mushrooms. Advocates in Chicago, Berkeley, Portland, and Dallas are pushing decriminalization measures—either through City Council action or ballot measures. Original Article (Marijuana Moment):Four more major cities take steps to…
The psychedelics reform movement is quietly advancing throughout the country, with four more major cities poised to take up proposals to decriminalize [entheogens] such as psilocybin mushrooms. Advocates in Chicago, Berkeley, Portland, and Dallas are pushing decriminalization measures—either through City Council action or ballot measures. Original Article (Marijuana Moment):Four more major cities take steps to…
“I want to model how to be a safe and responsible user without going the clinical route… for individuals who want to participate within a community-based environment, while receiving support and being safe.” -Co-founder Nicolle Greenheart (Decrim Nature Oakland) “I’m from Chicago, so there’s a regional difference in reception of natural plant medicines compared to Oakland. Indigenous…
“So this is how the healers who are attempting to be born are treated in this culture. What a loss! What a loss that a person who is finally being aligned with a power from the other world is just being wasted.” Dr. Somé proposes that what we call depression, bi-polar, psychosis and schizophrenia may perhaps…
Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR), another vocal advocate for hemp, also weighed in on USDA’s interim rule. “I’ve long said that if you can make and sell hemp products in America, you should be able to grow hemp in America,” he said in a statement. “Congress passed my bipartisan Hemp Farming Act, and now federal regulations must…
As the third-largest city in the United States… …the resolution in Chicago will likely be viewed as a major milestone to scientists, drug policy reformers, and psychedelic and entheogenic plant… [decriminalization] advocates. Original Article (Psychedelic Review):Chicago follows Oakland, decriminalizes psychedelic plants Artwork Fair Use: Ruth Hartnup
Former Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Scott Gottlieb [Pfizer Board Member] said… that the federal government should regulate state marijuana programs. He provided some clarification—hinting that federal drug scheduling laws should be reformed for cannabis — he is beginning to lay out specific details of a regulatory agenda. Gottlieb said during the TV interview that…
Let us be clear: we are not suggesting malicious intent. Our point is that paradigmatic expectations can make it all too easy to cherry-pick, misunderstand and then misrepresent results so as to render them consistent with the reigning worldview. And because the community at large shares the same expectations, such errors easily go unnoticed. Perhaps more worryingly, paradigmatic expectations…
“What we try to do in palliative care at the moment is to relieve the pain and suffering as much as possible by giving people pain medication. But morphine’s not going to take away their anxiety or their depression.” Certain people have further suggested that palliative [synthetic] psilocybin could be used to help those who…
Our study, like all other studies that explore relations between experiential states and brain states (whether about psychedelics or not), is entirely irrelevant to this metaphysical question [about materialism]. …by misrepresenting the explanatory reach of our findings in order to motivate metaphysical discussions irrelevant to our study, they risk undermining the hard-won legitimacy of a neuroscience…
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