Politics

Oregon’s sketchy framework for psilocybin program portends a new implementation disaster

Oregon… has established a licensure pathway for “psilocybin facilitators” without requiring any medical or mental health training. In fact, the only education required is a high school diploma; a 120-hour course that includes instruction on irrelevant topics including history and cultural equity; and 40 hours of in-person training. Potential psilocybin users must review a mandatory “informed…

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Medicine/Healing

‘Magic Mushroom’… shows early promise in easing migraines

The idea of using psilocybin against migraines is not far-fetched… like other psychedelics, exerts its effects by stimulating certain brain receptors for the chemical serotonin. That makes it similar to many standard migraine medications, which also act on serotonin receptors (albeit differently). In the United States alone, about 39 million people suffer from migraines, according…

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Psychology

Estrogen impacts the effects of psilocybin for women

We are left behind in mainstream medical system and so when you when we want to discuss these things… women have had a lot of difficulty in the mainstream medical system—and that’s not to say that I have a problem with the mainstream medical system—however, there is a history of women being gaslit at the…

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Politics

…land beyond the drug war

It’s more than fifty years on from our declaration of a war on narcotics, and people are getting higher on more destructive shit than ever. Every state and every town in this country has a fentanyl problem, because for distributors, fentanyl is one hell of a product. It’s potent – up to fifty times stronger…

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Politics

We’re on the cusp of another psychedelic era. But this time Washington is along for the ride

Advocates still must overcome stigma associated with 1960s drug culture and concerns about side effects, but they’ve never enjoyed such strong support inside government… federal agencies are signaling a willingness to cooperate… If Washington assents, manufacturers are poised to deliver. In the House, Democrats including Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York and Lou Correa of California, and Republicans led by Dan…

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Politics

Measure 110 program manager resigns, says state was ‘maliciously negligent’

In August 2021, Oregon Health Authority hired Dr. Angela Carter to roll out the state’s voter-approved drug decriminalization law…. In a July 17 2023… resignation letter to the health authority’s interim director, David Baden, Dr. Angela Carter… outlined… the agency’s “maliciously negligent” oversight of the Measure 110 program: “it appears that OHA leadership has made…

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Biography/Memoir

Microdosing magic mushrooms with… Mom…

Question: “Do you feel safe talking to me, talking in front of our cameras about this?” Answer from Mikaela: “I wouldn’t be here if I didn’t feel safe.” Question: “As you know being pregnant there’s so many rules or so called rule with what you can’t eat, what you can’t drink, what you can eat,…

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Politics

Oregon Gov. Kotek signs bills aiming to bolster behavioral health, Measure 110

“That’s why today is so important. The bills I am signing mark progress towards building a behavioral health continuum of care that incorporates harm reduction, suicide prevention, stronger tools against substance abuse among youth and adults, and improvements to the implementation of Measure 110,” Governor Tina Kotek said.  …increases staffing and aims to speed up…

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Politics

…repeal… 110[?]

More Oregon voters believe that the root cause of homelessness is drug addiction and mental health problems than a lack of access to affordable housing… Jackson County commissioners call for a repeal of Oregon’s Measure 110… say it hasn’t worked… unanimously called for the repeal of Ballot Measure 110. Clackamas County sends referendum on Measure…

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