…it will be up to local groups and individuals willing to participate in the… process to ensure that the personal use… isn’t weakened during implementation… Ultimately, we recognize that all reforms are a push-and-pull of what people who think about policy all day want to see and what legislators, donors, drafters, lobbyists, opposition blocks, funders…
Springfield officials expressed support for continuing to explore the possibility of a drug treatment court, but Mayor Sean VanGordon said the city is “a long way from the finish line.” The city is prepared to apply for funding to start a drug treatment court as soon as the federal funding window opens, said Presiding Municipal…
The Eugene Police Department seized an estimated 18 pounds of suspected fentanyl… in what the department says is the largest fentanyl seizure in its history. The pills were a mixture of blue- and rainbow-colored, according to photos of the seized drugs from EPD. The seizure comes five months after EPD reported the department’s previous largest…
As part of the new contract, the city and White Bird are doing a reset to make sure responsibilities are clearly laid out, Police Chief Chris Skinner said. While CAHOOTS is a good model and garners national attention for a reason, that same success has led to some challenges, Weinzetl said, namely a bottleneck in…
The competition for patents is well under way… each company has interpreted the decision as a win, with Freedom to Operate saying the decision limits Compass Pathways’ “ownership [to] . . . the exact shape of their form of psilocybin, and not others,” while Compass Pathways does not “see how avoiding infringing on their patents…
…because there’s a dimension of mind changing with psychedelics, it takes off all the fences and we are more open to think differently, or to take another path. I will go back to the example of the elephants who travel another path. This is something that you can see in MRIs. There are new connections…
A small 2019 study in Psychopharmacology found that after taking ayahuasca, people showed better emotional regulation. That is, they were less prone to negative judgment and knee-jerk emotional reactions in response to triggering situations. When Zaharo Tsekouras drank ayahuasca at a retreat in Oregon, on the second night, she saw a grandmother figure holding a…
…the most important reason to have insurers onboard isn’t just to save society money on treating costly mental ailments – it’s to make sure the benefits are distributed to more than just affluent individuals who can afford hours long psychedelic journeys integrated by therapy. “Governments and corporations are selfish. Our job is to fight the bastards…
In 2021 study it was recognised that high moisture and moderate temperatures are the ideal settings for mushroom growth, suggesting that droughts dry the soil, meaning that less plants and fungi have an opportunity to survive. Water transportation is pivotal to mycelium growth, and it is widely accepted that an increase in drought affects interactions…
…a new wave of research is exploring the therapeutic uses of other substances such as magic mushrooms, MDMA and LSD, not just as party drugs but as real-life neurotechnologies that can act as a chemical nudge on the brain systems involved in love and attachment. …let’s not forget, love itself is also not to be taken lightly. Instead of…
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