…courts and state agencies that are willing to run roughshod over Oregonians’ “rights of conscience.” “In Oregon there is no legal way to be a psilocybin religion, there’s no legal way to be an ayahuasca religion. There’s no way to be any type of Schedule I religion unless it’s a peyote religion and if you…
A: …the current rules do limit the varieties of fungi that can be utilized in this program to, they limit it to a single variety called psilocybin cubensis and so there are over a 100 other types of psilocybin producing fungi that could have been included in the program and you mentioned the cannabis industry…
….beer twice as expensive… That’s because the cost of a key ingredient, malted barley, could soar as…barley becomes harder to grow. The price of a six-pack in the United States might rise by as much as $8 on average, the study found… [coffee] six-in-ten of the known species of coffee are now under threat of…
To be eligible for patent protection, an invention must be a “process, machine, manufacture, or composition of matter.” Moreover, it must not fall into one of three categories of excluded subject matter, the so-called judicial exceptions to patent eligibility, which include laws of nature, abstract ideas, and natural phenomena. This animating principle excludes naturally occurring psychedelics, and the…
Mushrooms were grown and extracted with boiling hot water. Effects of the four water extracts on 15-LOX activity were determined… natural [fungi] with medicinal properties have been used to treat all sorts of inflammatory conditions and studies have shown that natural products have advantageous structural diversity over synthetic compounds, which thus make them a potential…
…psilocybin truffles have “a lot of psilocybin but little psilocin.” This hypothesis is corroborated in the literature. …, Pellegrini et al. reported: “…no trace of psilocin could be found at least at the limit of the detection of the assay” (0.3 µg per 100 mg truffles). In stark contrast, a 2019 study… found that a…
The DEA declined to comment for this story. …one of two terminally ill patients seeking access to psilocybin under Right to Try, a federal law and an array of state laws meant to grant people facing death access to experimental drugs outside of a clinical trial… the court’s decision left the issue at a “crossroads,”…
So what has science been able to offer since Shulgin? There have been at least two contributions to the field: The first is the structural determination of a psychedelic-bound 5-HT2A receptor at near-atomic resolution. These reconstructions have enabled detailed computer simulations to identify thousands of candidate compounds which can be tested to evaluate their kinetic…
Security… is friendly, but also well-equipped to deal with any potential problems. To join the church (40,000 people have), you must show up in person, be 18+ with a valid government-issued ID, and sign a waiver declaring that you’re not a law enforcement officer or informant, and that you accept entheogenic[s]… as part of your…
[“We need a civil rights movement for your consciousness,” said Paul Stamets in a TED2022 talk] …there are colourful new signs advertising magic mushrooms for sale inside… that’s been operating in the neighbourhood for years. Walking up a few stairs and through Mushroom Cuts‘ glass doors, you’ll see two salon chairs framed with neon lights…
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