Spirituality

Denver City Council digs Into more mushroom decriminalization… panel reports no issues since decriminalization of psilocybin mushrooms

“Arrests related to psilocybin decreased by more than half since the passage of I-301,” the review panel’s recent report notes… arrests involving mushrooms in Denver are down 50% compared to before decriminalization and, of arrests involving mushrooms, 89% include other illicit substances. Mushrooms also account for less than 1% of drug felonies and misdemeanors in…

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Politics

Big tech’s psychedelics grift

They helped create the disease, and now they want to hoard the cure. This was the plug for Prozac when it first came on the market in 1988… no matter: a new therapeutic savior has arrived in the form of psychedelics. If you think it’s a little strange that Big Tech – currently best known…

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Politics

Can psychedelics and capitalism co-exist?

The fact that someone who tried psychedelics for the first time in 2014 now talks openly about restricting access to them might be unsettling to many in the psychedelic community. But some investors are already adopting a gatekeeping approach to these ancient medicines. For example, German billionaire Christian Angermayer, founder of biotech company Atai Life…

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Medicine/Healing

Will the magic of psychedelics transform psychiatry?

Unfounded claims that psychedelic drugs have no medical uses, as the US Congress once declared, and are fundamentally dangerous, kept research endeavours in a straitjacket… Decriminalize Nature, which argues humans have an unalienable right to develop their own relationship with natural plants, persuaded US authorities in half a dozen municipalities, including Washington DC, to decriminalise…

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Science

FDA approves first clinical trial using naturally sourced psychedelics

With… propriety technology… stable formulations of both psilocin and psilocybin from magic mushrooms.  …drug development efforts are focused exclusively on extracting, purifying, and standardizing natural psychedelic compounds. Original Article (Psychedelic Spotlight):FDA approves first clinical trial using naturally sourced psychedelicsArtwork Fair Use: Perdula

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Biography/Memoir

Psychedelics patent claim raises questions from researchers who say they did it first

Their research was not cited in the patent application. Yet, if this patent application was granted… it could block others… The application, published on May 20 2020, was originally filed on November 15, 2019. (Patent applications are kept secret for 18 months)… the application has claims on organisms genetically modified to produce psilocybin by giving them…

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Anthropology

[61.1% of] Detroit voters… decriminalized magic mushrooms and other ‘entheogenic’ plants

More than 53,000 Detroit voters voted yes on Proposal E… residents turned out to decriminalize the possession and therapeutic use of entheogenic plants, which includes psilocybin “magic” mushrooms, peyote, mescaline, ayahuasca, and dimethyltryptamine, or DMT. Only until naturally occurring psychedelics are legalized will we be able to regulate them, which includes the buying, selling, and…

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Modern Culture

Detroit down-ballot results… shrooms

The onset of mental illnesses appears for the first time before the age of 25 62.5% of the time… one solution to this dilemma is right in front of us and has been throughout our country’s history – psychedelics… read about them, look into the work of psychedelic plant activists, do your own research and develop your…

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Politics

Detroit voters approve decriminalization of magic mushrooms and other entheogenic plants

Now that it’s passed, Detroit’s law department and police will determine how to interpret decriminalization of entheogenic plants. City attorneys cite legal precedents from Coalition for a Safer Detroit v Detroit City Clerk, stating that election officials do not have the authority to “assess the substance of the petition or to determine whether, if passed, it would…

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