“Literally a grandma could take my video, watch it, and produce LSD,” says Willy. “This was like a fucking movie between the FBI contacting us and going to Pakistan. Just so many things had to line up correctly for this to happen, says Willy. “It’s never happened to date, and it’s been over 86 years…
A new analysis of the National Survey of Drug Use and Health (NSDUH), conducted annually by the federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), found broadly that “perceptions of harm associated with substance use have been steadily declining for most substances since 2015.” While risk perception has declined across multiple substances over the…
…as people merge getting high and self-care… we need a new way to make sense of it. In today’s chaotic marketplace… the internet also transformed supply and demand… the idea of drugs as a social evil and the belief that only doctors define what is medical is being challenged… the distinction between licit “medicine” and…
The agency is now prohibiting the use of three compounds in the mushroom – muscimol, ibotenic acid and muscarine – given safety concerns identified in its review of the evidence. Exactly how the FDA will decide to enforce its decision remains to be seen… “[FDA] is clearly addressing this mushroom,” says Kevin Feeney, a lawyer…
The United States and Canada should fully decriminalize the use and possession of drugs rather than double down on a failed drug war, according to a new report from the Global Commission on Drug Policy. The report recommended expanding the availability of opioid agonist therapy such as methadone and buprenorphine, syringe service programs, overdose prevention centers,…
…Clyde Apperson, 69, was charged in 2000 for running what was at the time the largest LSD lab ever discovered. ….the lab in an abandoned Atlas nuclear missile silo outside of Wamego [Kansas]… at the time of the seizure of the LSD lab in the Kansas missile silo, the DEA said it had only ever…
…[Shroom House]… to downtown Portland [Oregon] gets probation… …will spend five years on probation and forfeit a hefty chunk of change, a judge ruled… a plea deal with Multnomah County prosecutors… Original Article (Oregon Live):Man who brought rogue psilocybin business to downtown Portland gets probationArtwork Fair Use: Steve Morgan
The pope met an emissary from the psychedelic world at a “holy meeting” at the Vatican, where a Jesuit lawyer named Brian Muraresku presented Pope Francis with a manifesto for a psychedelic “New Reformation.” Pope Francis accepted a copy of Muraresku’s 2020 book The Immortality Key at the meeting, which took place in late 2021 or early…
The study, published in the Journal of Psychoactive Drugs, found that when administered under specific conditions, the mushroom extract restored spatial learning and memory impairments and increased levels of brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF), a protein essential for brain plasticity. These effects were observed in rats subjected to a chronic unpredictable mild stress protocol, a widely used…
Zide Door will close its location in the city’s SOMA neighborhood with its pastor citing harassment from the San Francisco Planning Department. The church also accused the planning department of criticizing the church in the media. Hodges said that he is concerned that the Planning Department’s “targeting” of the church could constitute religious discrimination… Zide…
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