Jay Noeller, an OSU professor of crop and soil science who is to head the new center also noted a sense of an historical cycle coming around. “By bringing the center to Oregon, you can also think of it as we’re returning it home, because this was the site of national research on hemp from…
“We just solved the same equation, for the harmonic patterns, on the human connectome instead of other geometrical shapes, like metal plates or spheres where it has been applied before,” Atasoy explains. “Then, when we take the fMRI data, instead of looking at where we see higher activity versus lower activity, we can ask the…
During the past few months, so many of you have spoken with legislators, or with the media, or with each other. Today that work has paid off. But this is just the beginning. On the afternoon of June 20th, 2019 Oregon Governor Kate Brown signed Senate Bill 582, the so-called “cannabis export” bill. In doing…
Landlords in Oregon are now expressly prohibited from refusing to rent their properties to individuals based on their status as a medical marijuana patient. In the past year, there have been several high-profile cases involving medical marijuana patients who had been evicted from their homes for simply using their medicine, even though it is legal in the…
Iowa state Rep. Jeff Shipley, who filed a bill in February to decriminalize psilocybin in [Iowa] State, brings up another argument: personal freedom. “Where did government derive authority to regulate substances to begin with?” he asks … Decriminalization is not the same as legalization; Denver and Oakland will no longer use city money to impose criminal penalties on people age…
During the night of the resolution’s passing, over 100 people testified about how they have been helped by natural psychedelics. The use of psilocybin, mescaline or other natural psychedelic “drugs” can no longer be policed in the city of Oakland, California … “the full spectrum of plants, fungi, and natural materials … that can inspire personal…
“Under legalization, you would have big companies not just making mushrooms available but aggressively marketing them to people, as we’re seeing with cannabis,” said Michael Pollan. Under decriminalization, Oakland police will now put enforcement down among its lowest priorities (which means it won’t be a priority at all), and the city is forbidden from prosecuting…
How quickly is the push to decriminalize psilocybin progressing, exactly? So quickly that it’s even surprised psychedelics advocates. “The fact that it’s happening so fast is kind of amazing,” says Brad Burge, spokesperson for the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS), which leads studies of psychedelic therapies, including the aforementioned MDMA trial. “Here we have…
Cluster Headaches: I was 33 and living in Portland, Oregon, when I first started getting them. They came like clockwork every night at 1, dragging me out of my dreams and onto my feet. Psilocybin Containing Mushrooms: “Mind telling us what you’ve got here?” the K9 trooper asked, holding the travel case in which I…
It’s a very strong statement by the Oregon Legislature that will reverberate across the country. “There are serious environmental, patient access, public safety, regulatory compliance, economic and social justice issues that would be solved or ameliorated by allowing interstate commerce in cannabis. This issue is important to us all.” Original Article (OPB and Adam Smith):Oregon House…
