Modern Culture

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The mushroom community in Colorado built around this ‘Grow, Gather, Gift’ model has yielded some incredible results and world-class data.  …an example of community self-regulation through the development of testing standards and data sharing… Colorado has been a hotbed of mushroom entrepreneurism over the last two years since Proposition 122 was passed with a 54%…

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Medicine/Healing

…a compelling case for the use of magic mushrooms in pain relief

Indeed, in April [2024], the Yale School of Medicine published the results of the first randomised control study of psilocybin for pain relief. Although it enrolled just 10 CH [Cluster Headache] sufferers, half of those who received psilocybin as opposed to a placebo reported a reduction in attacks. Precisely how psilocybin interrupts the cycle of headaches is an open question. Brain scans suggest…

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Modern Culture

Psychedelics group wants to protect Portland… users of… plant- or mushroom-based psychedelics… from cops

Portland advocates for psychedelic drug use are hoping to put an initiative on the city’s 2026 ballot that would protect people who use what they call non-toxic and non-addictive plant- or mushroom-based psychedelic drugs from arrest. Under the proposed initiative, non-toxic and non-addictive psychedelics would be designated police officers’ “lowest priority for enforcement,” according to the initiative…

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Modern Culture

Colorado’s first psychedelic healing centers could offer psilocybin yoga or microdosing at a coffee shop

That could mean retreat centers, yoga studios or social clubs could offer the treatments… While guided trips on large doses of mushrooms may be suitable for some… believe smaller dosing options are more approachable to a broader demographic… Denver business… will focus on microdosing. Their concept includes two separate spaces. The first is a coffee…

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Politics

An NYT story blamed leftists for obstructing psychedelic therapy… truth is…

Without the efforts of this “small band of anticapitalist activists,” the authors argue, Lykos Therapeutics’ “$250 million investment” in MDMA-AT may have paid off by being the first psychedelic therapy to get federal approval – potentially establishing the company as a multibillion-dollar enterprise. As a journalist who has followed the psychedelics movement for years and attended hearings…

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Politics

Oregon board rejects… request to direct all opioid settlement funds to harm reduction

That means Save Lives Oregon, a state-funded program that provides harm reduction resources, training and items such as clean syringes, Narcan and fentanyl test strips to local organizations, will get $5.1 million instead of $21.6 million in opioid settlement funding through 2027. Several members of the 18-person Opioid Settlement Prevention, Treatment and Recovery Board… stressed that…

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