Medicine/Healing

Colorado… what’s passed…

Proposition 122 appears headed to victory after opponents conceded the race on Wednesday [11/09/22] night. Colorado… decriminalized grow, gift and use… psychedelic mushrooms… this means people will be allowed to grow, share and gift these substances, but they would not be allowed to sell them directly… The measure was ahead by about 3 points –…

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Politics

…we cannot forget… personal-use protections are the most important…

“We cannot forget that the decriminalization and personal-use protections are the most important part of this measure…” said grassroots organizer Nicole Forester. The proposal also gives the Colorado Department of Regulatory Agencies the authority to create a legal framework for psychedelics access. DORA is now charged with licensing “healing centers,” where people can go to consume psychedelics…

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Politics

The most comprehensive state psychedelic reform measure…

The passage of this measure comes four years after Denver became the first U.S. city to decriminalize psilocybin… mushrooms… Possession, use, cultivation and sharing of psilocybin, ibogaine… DMT… will be legalized for adults 21 and older… [and] the development of rules for a therapeutic psychedelics program where adults 21 and older can visit a “licensed healing center…

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Politics

…the covered activities include…

The covered activities include “growing, cultivating, or processing plants or fungi capable of producing natural medicine for personal use.” The initiative also eliminates civil and criminal penalties for possessing, storing, using, transporting, or obtaining the listed psychedelics or distributing them to adults 21 or older “without remuneration.” All of the psychedelics covered by Proposition 122…

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Biography/Memoir

Coloradans… psilocybin… access model…

Alan Floyd is a cancer patient who uses psilocybin under the federal Right to Try Act. Floyd said traditional pharmaceuticals did not work for him, and that some even made him suicidal. However, he found some solace in psychedelic mushroom capsules. “The way we’ve defined personal use, and that we’re approaching decriminalization, is that individuals…

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Politics

Pot prohibition continues collapsing, and psychedelic bans could be next

…people might use psychedelics for fun. Judging from the election returns so far, Coloradans have decided… they can live with. Colorado seems to be forging ahead. If its lead holds up, Colorado’s Proposition 122 will eliminate civil and criminal penalties for a wide range of noncommercial conduct related to consumption of five natural psychedelics: psilocybin, psilocyn, dimethyltryptamine,…

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Biography/Memoir

Psychedelics can treat ptsd, so should they be given to soldiers?

Another question is whether they’d even want to fight. “Would people all become hippies and leave the military? I don’t think that’s the case. There’s something noble about defending others and defending your country. Some people will choose to serve and some will not,” said Rick Doblin, the founder of the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic…

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Medicine/Healing

How psychedelics can transform end-of-life care

More than two dozen other states and the U.S. House of Representatives are also grappling with their own versions of psychedelic legislation… the end of life is not only a universal experience, we also know it’s one where psychedelic medicines can spur a massive paradigm shift in how we provide care. The human body and…

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Anthropology

Multiple cities… ban psilocybin-related businesses

Coburg, Cottage Grove, Creswell, Dunes City and Junction City all supported the banning… The state established temporary rules for the product with permanent rules to come after Dec. 31 [2022]. Original Article (Register Guard):Election results: multiple cities on track to ban psilocybin-related businessesArtwork Fair Use: Mapoflanecountyoregon

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