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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Anthropology

Magic mushrooms… San Francisco…

Hodges said his church, which has nearly 92,000 members, is accepting new members only at its original location in Oakland. Dave Hodges, the founder of Zide Door… his organization is not relying on the Board of Supervisors’ 2022 resolution for legal protection and is instead relying on the federal government’s First Amendment right to freedom…

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Politics

California’s psilocybin legalization campaign OK’d to collect signatures

This year, organizers see an easier path to land on the ballot, citing a lower 546,651 signature threshold, and the absence of pandemic-era roadblocks that made signature gathering more difficult. Volunteers have until Jan. 10, 2024 to meet that goal. The initiative’s language would legalize the use of psilocybin mushrooms for medical, therapeutic, religious, spiritual, and recreational…

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Medicine/Healing

…psychedelic… its big promise?

In 2020, the Bill Richards Center for Healing became… non-­university site in the United States… receiv[ing] FDA clearance to conduct clinical trials with psilocybin… Psychedelics have drawn an unlikely crowd of evangelists, and many of the cultural battle lines that defined the War on Drugs are being erased. You can find supporters in both former…

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Biography/Memoir

Former OLCC director Steve Marks files tort claim notice alleging Kotek fired him at Rosa Cazares’ behest

“Marks was summarily forced out of office by Gov. Tina Kotek in early 2023 because Rosa Cazares, prominent owner of one of Oregon’s largest dispensary chains and an opponent of cannabis regulations, wanted him gone,” alleges the claim, submitted by Marks’ attorney, Bill Gary of the Harrang Long firm. “Cazares placed herself in close orbit…

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Modern Culture

…magic mushroom [edibles]

Featured in High Times… potential of psilocybin mushrooms while reaping the health benefits of CBD… cultivator, supplier and exporter of… psilocybin products and biomass… in the gift shops… packaging… alongside tanning oils and sun hats. Think: gluten-free, direct trade and locally-farmed dark chocolate bars… organic psilocybin mushrooms, prioritizing purity and potency… more enjoyable and palatable……

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