Politics

Coloradans to vote on an… access model

…while Oregon voters in 2020 approved the supervised use of psychedelic mushrooms, the citizen initiative on the Colorado ballot in November [2022] goes further… would allow the personal use of psilocybin mushrooms and certain plant-based psychedelic substances by adults 21. As of June [2022], 15 cities and other local U.S. jurisdictions have decriminalized… psilocybin or…

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Legalization justice act… filed in Salem, Oregon [Cannabis Measure 91 & Psilocybin Measure 109]

In late January 2022, the Oregon state legislature filed a pre-session, psilocybin social equity bill to supplement the state’s groundbreaking Measure 109 program. That legislation is new Senate Bill 1580, sponsored by ten Democratic state lawmakers… a critical time, as Oregon’s new legal psilocybin program serves to transition psilocybin from an illegal substance into a…

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Science

Scientists to examine how mushrooms become magic

…people have… found that compounds such as psilocybin can have psychotherapeutic benefits. However, that has not addressed their evolution in nature… …scientists from the University of Plymouth are conducting a first-of-its-kind study using advanced genetic methods and behavioral experiments to address previously untested hypotheses into the origin of psychedelic compounds in fungi. Original Article (Phsy.org):Scientists to…

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Health secretary… talked to FDA about Marijuana scheduling review…

…the review of marijuana’s federal scheduling status will be tasked to the Food and Drug Administration… “The president was very clear – he wants this done as quickly as possible,” U.S. Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Xavier Becerra said, “It’s not new science, but there’s lot of information to gather because in many states…

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What does kratom do?

While there is always room for more research to be conducted, as of now, studies have shown that kratom has many benefits… kratom leaf has been chewed for at least 150 years in Southeast Asia… Kratom has been shown in studies to have antidepressant and appetite-suppressant properties. In one animal research, researchers discovered that kratom…

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How does psilocybin rewire the brain?

60 people participated in two psilocybin trials and had their fMRI brain scans analysed by scientists… scans were taken before and after treatment… The results showed that the psilocybin treatment reduced connections within brain areas that are tightly connected in depression. According to this research, scientists found that psilocybin rewires the brain for up to…

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What is Colorado proposition…

…the supervised therapeutic use of psilocybin and psilocin, two psychoactive compounds in magic mushrooms, for adults ages 21 [&] decriminalize the personal possession, growing, use and sharing of those substances, as well as ibogaine, mescaline and dimethyltryptamine, or DMT, for adults 21 years old and up. Denver became the first city in the U.S. to…

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How MDMA resensitizes the brain

…in mice, MDMA can reopen the critical period for social learning after it should have closed permanently. In 2019, neuroscientist Gül Dölen’s laboratory at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, found that the psychedelic drug MDMA resensitizes the brains of adult mice so they can learn from their social environment in a way that’s normally…

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