Politics

Who will control the future of psychedelics…

“If there’s one thing to take away from this, it’s this: Capitalist interests invading this space is a nationwide problem,” said [Bryan] Kim, an organizer with Decriminalize Nature Portland who traveled from Oregon to speak on a panel about decriminalization efforts across the country. Decriminalize Nature Colorado… officially entered the fray, submitting… proposed ballot initiative…

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Biography/Memoir

…questions…

On December 15 [2021], Freedom to Operate filed their post-grant review on a patent filed by COMPASS on what the company claims are proprietary, lab-made formulations of psilocybin. A week later, on December 22 [2021], FTO filed a second post-grant review of a second COMPASS patent. Once I saw the patent info, I sent it…

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Science

Drug testing: dramatic drop in bath salts being sold as MDMA

In a statement, Police National Drug Intelligence Bureau Manager Blair Macdonald said he was pleased with how this summer’s festival season had taken shape. …the Drug and Substance Checking Legislation Act, which was passed by Parliament in November 2021, has created a safer environment for people to get their drugs checked before they choose to…

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Biography/Memoir

Why scientists invented a magic mushroom that has no magic

…a team of scientists from China designed a new drug they say acts in a similar fashion to… psilocybin, but without leading to hallucinations. Sheng Wang, a biochemist with the Chinese Academy of Science and a senior author of the new study,” said, “The hallucination effects definitely restrict their potential use. But now, non-hallucinogenic drugs…

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Biography/Memoir

Hempcrete insulation submitted for U.S. building codes

Under current U.S. codes, builders, engineers, and architects must get approval to use hempcrete on a project-by-project basis, although the material is commonly used in the United Kingdom and France and has been approved for use for 30 years in Europe. The U.S. Hemp Building Foundation, the non-profit arm of the U.S. Hemp Building Association (USHBA), earlier…

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Biography/Memoir

[Oregon]… psychedelics scheduling… DEA

Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-OR) (on a call with former Pennsylvania Rep. Ryan Costello)… said that while he’s yet to meet with Anne Melissa Milgram [Administrator of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA)], he looks forward to doing so and will convey that the psilocybin case “is a golden opportunity for that agency to get in step…

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Politics

growing… policy on psychedelic…

[Oregon’s Measure 109] …does not legalise psilocybin [for homegrowing, as cannabis is now] or make it available at dispensaries, as cannabis is now… …screening process should help exclude those unsuited to it. Oregon’s health department will license the centres, facilitators, psilocybin producers and testing labs… does not mean Oregonians can pick up a few mushrooms…

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Biography/Memoir

69 years ago… groundwork… psychedelic

This drug, Moksha, could be seen as the mirror image of Soma: a fantastic agent for spiritual liberation that provides a full-blown mystical experience and stands at the foundation of the utopian society described in the novel… Huxley’s fascination with the threat and promise of consciousness-altering chemicals constitutes a thread that runs through his writing. Brave…

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