Lane County Public Health’s prevention supervisor, Elisabeth Maxwell has been watching the crisis closely. She said it’s been going on for years… Naloxone, also known as Narcan, can be used to reverse an opioid overdose. Investigators with the Eugene Police Department are on high alert for mass overdose events. They report that fentanyl is found…
This therapeutic land rush is in turn dependent on the “return” of psychedelic science and clinical research. Here too we have seen various professional bodies and discourses, with rivalries between them, attempt to establish their dominance over the knowledge basis of psychedelics, partly with an eye to extract value for a hungry pharmaceutical and mental…
On the academic front, over 84 fully sequenced genomes from different psilocybe mushrooms… …were published online with open access… now, everyone can access… psilocybin genomic library. Original Article (Bengazi):Magic mushrooms have over 80 different species – and their DNA is now available online & DNA From 80 psilocybe mushrooms published onlineArtwork Fair Use: Prokofiev
…psilocybe mushrooms are thriving in landscaped urban environments in the Pacific Northwest – which hints that their future is tied to people… the geographic origins of these magic mushrooms are similarly mysterious… genetic evidence points to… Pacific Northwest as their ancestral home… there is still much to learn about their biology, ecology, and evolutionary history……
…the social ramifications engendered by taking psychedelics have alarmed state security apparatuses, historically speaking… only 26 percent of participants attributed consciousness to plants prior to their psychedelic experience; afterwards, that number jumped to 61 percent. The jump for fungi was comparable. These impacts persisted with survey respondents reporting an average of eight years after the…
Paul Stamets… chat… about the path toward legalizing various psychedelics, psilocybin in particular. He offers caution around the recent relaxing of laws on psychedelics and suggests that “we don’t box ourselves into something” that doesn’t allow for later modification, especially since the science around psychedelics is rapidly evolving. He critiqued Oregon’s new law, in particular,…
…psychedelics such as psilocybin and LSD are relatively safe. According to Office for National Statistics figures there were fewer than 10 deaths related to the substances in the UK – not just last year, but back to 1993. Original Article (Proactiveinvestor):Second mover advantage: UK investor community can learn from North America’s psychedelic mistakesArtwork Fair Use:…
…to the uninitiated… ‘magic mushrooms’… could be dismissed… …evidence from animal trials suggests psilocybin’s effect on mental wellbeing may be connected, in part, to its ability to reduce inflammation – an immune response in the body’s tissues to dangers ranging from stress to physical injuries… Original Article (Time Magazine):Psilocybin could be a therapeutic breakthrough for addictionArtwork…
No matter the species, growing “magic” mushrooms is relatively cheap. …”magic” mushroom species… grow in the Pacific Northwest. Not every mushroom expert agrees with Oregon’s decision to hone in on one “magic” mushroom species. [Out of about 200 mushrooms, there’s (approximately) four of them that cause wood-lovers paralysis]. Original Article (Business Insider):‘Magic’ mushrooms will be…
Oregon is so far the only state to legalize the… use of psilocybin… Butler, who lives in the Salt Lake City suburbs, is among military veterans in several U.S. states helping to persuade lawmakers to study psychedelic mushrooms for therapeutic use. The recently retired Green Beret had already tried antidepressants, therapy and a support dog.…
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