The federal monopoly on growing marijuana for research… “Only one responsible source and no other supplies or services will satisfy agency requirements,” NIDA said in the new notice. That one supplier will continue to be the University of Mississippi. The problem, as far as researchers are concerned, is that the quality of the government’s marijuana…
…a longtime cannabis activist from the Bay Area, said soon after she started micro-dosing psilocybin earlier this year, police raided the Oakland “church” where she was getting her mushrooms… some of the most promising research suggests psilocybin might be of use to address various forms of depression. She was devastated, since she was experiencing relief…
…one topic has received increasing public attention. Once called a “non-starter” by some legislators, the right of [people] to cultivate (or “home grow”) a limited number… has become a real possibility. The possibility [that some legislation]… would not allow home grow is a perplexing one. Every one of the 11 states that have legalized cannabis…
Vancouver would become the first Canadian city to decriminalize the possession of small amounts of illicit drugs under a new proposal aimed at reducing the number of overdose deaths. If approved by council, the city and Vancouver Coastal Health will submit a formal request to the federal ministers of Health and Public Safety and to…
“There is more research needed on these compounds in order to better understand the entourage effect experienced by patients which has shown dramatically effective results compared to single-molecule synthetic psilocybin in preliminary studies… …we are pleased to announce the completion of our first commercial harvest of natural psilocybin mushrooms,” said Joshua Bartch, CEO and Chairman…
The Governor’s Budget invests $112.6 million to implement Measure 110 which decriminalizes possession of drugs and invests $5.6 million to begin implementing Measure 109, which legalized psilocybin for medicinal use as a potential treatment for behavioral health disorders… The budget recognizes the enormous need for behavioral health services and includes significant funding for substance use…
Trained civilians, not sworn police officers, could better respond to hundreds of 911 calls. The good news is that other cities are paving the way forward with trained civilian community responders. In Eugene, Oregon, the CAHOOTS program has been operating for 31 years. CAHOOTS dispatches de-escalation experts to 911 calls related to mental health, substance…
Dr. Bruce Tobin… said the decision is a “huge milestone in Canadian medical history,” [and] said there was an emerging need for doctors and other healthcare workers to have legal access to psilocybin for training purposes… “Imagine what it would be like to go to a sex therapist who you know has never had sex.”…
It does not decriminalize psilocybin, but makes possession of up to one ounce a disorderly persons offense rather than a third degree crime. That would drop penalties to a maximum of a $1,000 fine and six months in jail. Currently, those convicted can face between three and five years in prison. New Jersey is not…
For millennia, mushrooms were the only available source of psilocybin for human consumption. These days, they remain the most propagated way of taking psilocybin in informal circles outside of clinical trials. Critics of chemically-isolated psilocybin argue that psilocybin-producing mushrooms contain a number of other compounds that could contribute to their overall therapeutic effect. “The biggest…
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