Politics

Canada OKs drug decriminalization test in British Columbia

Dana Larsen, a drug policy reform activist, called the announcement “a step in the right direction,” but said he would prefer to see development of a safe drug supply. “The drugs are still going to be contaminated,” Larsen said. “I think we need stores where you can go in and find legal heroin, legal cocaine…

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Politics

Psychedelic patents are broken…

It’s a common story in the U.S.: An old and cheap drug was transformed into an expensive, inaccessible product. This happened through patents, legally granted rights to exclude others from making or selling an invention.  In the short time that psychedelic drugs have received attention from start-up companies and venture capitalists, there have already been…

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Medicine/Healing

Can magic mushrooms be…

Psychedelic history is just as diverse as the psychedelics themselves. Combined with artistic performances and group discussions, the community psychedelic ritual allows you to absorb the “full tapestry of life”: the threads woven between the molecules in a psilocybin mushroom… psychedelic-assisted therapy is commonly portrayed as an individual experience – for example, Patient A ingested…

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Spirituality

Oregon… community access…

Oregon isn’t a state that generally tries to short-change people on civil liberties issues… …an expensive program [like M109] in Oregon creates a new kind of religious or spiritual inequity that I don’t think we are capable of fully comprehending yet, but it clearly exacerbates other types of social problems that already plague us. Original…

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Politics

Rewards for staying off meth…

Oregon is poised to pay for them… …with meth there aren’t highly effective medications people can use to control their cravings like there are for heroin… and the federal government agrees… saying (rewards for staying off meth) is the only approach with strong clinical evidence behind it… (with rewards) people are almost twice as likely…

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Biography/Memoir

Colorado activists… signatures… psychedelics

Decriminalize Nature Colorado campaign would… allow adults 21 and older to… …possess, cultivate, gift and deliver psilocybin, psilocyn, ibogaine, mescaline & DMT. Further, the proposal says that it would be lawful to conduct psychedelics services for guidance, therapy and harm reduction and spiritual purposes without accepting payment. It would not be legal to sell any…

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Biography/Memoir

…Burning Man… Davos

The program, a first for Davos… …Medical Psychedelic Series [took] place between May 21 and May 26, at the Medical Psychedelics House of Davos, located at Platzhirsch Club Davos, Promenade 63, 7270 Davos, Switzerland… arriving at Davos amid a renaissance of popular interest… most are still considered illegal, although a number of cities and states…

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Science

…magic mushroom… smell loss?

Later that night, he reveled in the enchiladas they had for dinner. “I could taste the individual ingredients,” he said. “I mean, it’s not anything I’d wish on anybody to lose their sense of smell, but to lose it and have it come back that abruptly was really — it was a special experience.” Neuroscientist…

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Modern Culture

Utah festival educates about power of fungi

Folks gathered over… Utah’s first-ever fungi festival. …interest in mushrooms is absolutely booming – from using mushrooms for composting in gardens, to the use of mushrooms as super foods, to the growing interest in micro dosing psilocybin, or, “magic mushrooms.” Original Article (ABC4):Utah festival educates about power of fungiArtwork Fair Use: Public Domain

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Biography/Memoir

Olympia committee wants to talk about magic mushrooms

Olympia City Council member and Community Livability and Public Safety Committee chair Dontae Payne is mulling having a comprehensive discussion about psilocybin mushrooms and other psychedelic drugs in his committee. Mayor Pro Tem Clark Gilman first brought up the topic of psilocybin mushrooms in a recent city council meeting. Gilman said there is a movement…

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