Anthropology

One year on, Oregon drug decriminalization…

 …there were 60 percent fewer total drug arrests in state over the 10 months after February 1, 2021, compared with the same period the previous year. 16,000 Oregon residents have already accessed services… the largest portion – over 59 percent – have received harm reduction services, like sterile syringes, naloxone and associated training, or safe…

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Biography/Memoir

[Ninth Circuit] federal appeals court dismisses ‘right-to-try’ psilocybin lawsuit by cancer patients

The lawsuit was filed against the DEA by three Seattle-based patients… The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has dismissed a lawsuit by cancer patients seeking to use psilocybin to treat end-of-life depression and anxiety… the plaintiffs argue that DEA’s position leaves no path forward for accessing psilocybin as an end-of-life treatment. Original Article (Ganjapreneur):Federal…

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Science

why do people see elves and other “entities”… DMT…

Given the strikingly similar DMT entities reported by unconnected people from around the world, scientists are now attempting to understand more about the nature of these psychedelic characters… …a study… of the 2,561 DMT users surveyed by the Johns Hopkins team, 65 percent said their encounter filled them with “joy”, while 63 percent experienced a…

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Biography/Memoir

…difference between [sclerotia galindoi truffles] microdosing & placebo, trial finds

…doses were made by the participants using dried [sclerotia galindoi] truffles… …did not find an effect of [sclerotia galindoi truffles] microdosing on interoceptive awareness, nor on emotion processing or symptoms of anxiety and depression… Original Article (New Atlas & Journal of Psychopharmacology): Psilocybin microdosing does not affect emotion-related symptoms and processing: A preregistered field and…

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Biography/Memoir

Marijuana companies urged governor to ban… home cultivation, document shows… [are psilocybin… companies doing the same?]

“From our perspective, it’s really hard to see any real reason – other than individual and corporate greed – to be against home cultivation at this point,” Erik Altieri, executive director of NORML… “There’s not a lot of rational concerns when it comes to allowing a limited amount of plants for an individual to grow at…

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Science

Microdosing zebrafish… shows its potential benefits for humans

…repeatedly microdosed… zebrafish with LSD.… …using behavioural neuroscience tests to quantify locomotion, boldness and anxiety-like behaviour… we [also] found that zebrafish acutely dosed with the terpene limonene (found in citrus fruit peels and cannabis) and myrcene (found in cannabis and hops), showed a significant reduction in anxiety-like behaviour… [with terpene limonene & myrcene] no negative…

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