Biography/Memoir

I visited a magic mushroom dispensary…

I stuck around the store for nearly half an hour, and I estimate that 25-30 new people visited the store during that time. I came right when work ended on a Thursday afternoon, which seemed like a busy time for the store. …requires all interested buyers to sign a four-page disclosure document that states they…

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Biography/Memoir

One psychedelic ride… bike for… magic mushrooms

According to Colin Pugh, the executive director of BPS, the Brooklyn Psychedelic Society’s mission is to “make psychedelic healing a publically-accessible good by creating a nationwide network of psychedelic co-ops.” “I think there’s a real opportunity here to build a new kind of mental healthcare system that is owned and operated by the people,” Pugh…

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Biography/Memoir

…industry…

…this is not to rain on the whole psychedelics parade – which potentially promises significant relief for a lot of humans (or at least the ones that can afford treatment). …the bankrupt or nonoperational Canadian mining companies that have spontaneously converted themselves into psychedelic outfits, thanks to the fact that the companies’ continued “exist[ence] as…

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Politics

Momentum builds… major cannabis bill

Senators on both sides of the aisle are throwing support behind a proposal to tuck key marijuana banking legislation into a larger package aimed at boosting U.S. competitiveness… conferees are expected to complete a compromise China competitiveness bill… …under conference committee rules, lawmakers cannot modify the SAFE Banking Act to add additional social equity or…

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Biography/Memoir

The advantages of psychedelic prohibition

She’s walking away from the above-ground therapy world… she let her designation as a “therapist” from… Department of Regulatory Agencies lapse. It was a deliberate renunciation, a conscious break. She doesn’t agree with the state’s regulations for therapists, believing they’re too restrictive and can actually interfere with her ability to support her clients- and, among…

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Anthropology

Cannabis now America’s fifth most profitable crop

…in five of the states where adult-use cannabis sales are legal – Alaska, Colorado, Massachusetts, Nevada, and Oregon – cannabis is actually the most valuable crop… focused on operating adult-use states – the 11 states where any adult can walk into a licensed store and buy cannabis. That figure of a little more than $6…

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Politics

Drug policing… impressions

For conventional crime, police activity can actually reduce it. For drugs policing it never does. In fact Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (LEAP) members and allies all over the world note that, more often than not, drugs policing actually increases crime. Police do not reduce the size of a market, they just change the shape of…

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Science

Fentanyl found… bring fentanyl test strips…

Lane County Public Health’s prevention supervisor, Elisabeth Maxwell has been watching the crisis closely. She said it’s been going on for years… Naloxone, also known as Narcan, can be used to reverse an opioid overdose. Investigators with the Eugene Police Department are on high alert for mass overdose events. They report that fentanyl is found…

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