Science

[Psilocybe] mushroom extract outperforms synthetic psilocybin…

March 14, 2024By

…mushroom extract demonstrated a stronger and more prolonged impact on synaptic plasticity… Metabolomic analyses indicated distinct metabolic profiles between the mushroom extract and synthetic psilocybin… Original Article (Neuroscience News & Nature):Mushroom extract outperforms synthetic psilocybin in psychiatric therapy & Effect of chemically synthesized psilocybin and psychedelic mushroom extract on molecular and metabolic profiles in mouse…

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Psychology

Psilocybin’s role in trauma recovery may be mental and physical…

March 14, 2024By

“Our study explored whether those who engaged in recreational psilocybin use also had lesser psychological distress,” he said. “It also explored whether the effect of psilocybin in reducing distress appeared to differ according to the level of childhood adversity.” In short, the answer is yes to both outcomes. To measure distress, researchers asked participants to…

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Politics

Oregon is ready to restart the drug war

March 8, 2024By

The Oregon experiment was unique in America, where on any given day 350,000 people – roughly the equivalent of the population of Cleveland – are locked up on drug offenses, and drug-possession arrests occur at a clip of one every 23 seconds… three years later, Measure 110 now stands as a cautionary tale about the failure to match…

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Biography/Memoir

‘It makes me more thoughtful’: Push to decriminalize magic mushrooms gains momentum in Massachusetts

March 8, 2024By

“There is more awareness when it comes to psychedelics, especially mushrooms,” Valera said. Salem City Councilor Andy Varela believes micro-dosing psilocybin has helped him. “And people are trying to do everything they can to put their health in their own hands, and I think that’s why this conversation has changed for the better.” As a…

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Modern Culture

Are mushrooms the social drug of 2024?

March 8, 2024By

Jack is one of the many for whom microdosing has become the new happy hour. For the past few years, psychedelic mushrooms have been sprouting across Silicon Valley corporate culture, wellness retreats, and research labs for their therapeutic potential. But now they’re seeping into our social lives as new users, friends, and family see what…

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Biography/Memoir

Oregon… drug decriminalization… turn

March 8, 2024By

Mr. Holton said the tickets don’t even include a phone number to call for help.  Dwight Holton told me… Mr. Holton, a former U.S. attorney for Oregon, is CEO of Lines for Life, a nonprofit that housed the hotline until last year [2023]. Though law-enforcement officers have issued more than 6,000 tickets in Oregon since decriminalization…

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Biography/Memoir

‘It makes me more thoughtful’: push to… magic mushrooms gains momentum…

March 8, 2024By

[Oregon is poised to legislate the return to recriminalizing personal possession of psilocybin-containing mushrooms (as well as LSD and MDMA) on Tuesday March 12, 2024; with citizens awaiting Democratic Governor Tina Kotek’s signature to do so.] “There is more awareness when it comes to psychedelics, especially mushrooms,” Valera said. Salem City Councilor Andy Varela believes…

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Politics

…organizers push back against HB 4002’s passage…

March 5, 2024By

Shouts of “For justice, for justice!” and “We won’t go back to the war on drugs!” permeated the state Capitol Saturday [3/2/2024] afternoon… Republican Senator Tim Knopp added that the goal of the bill is not to go back to the war on drugs. “The war on drugs decades ago disenfranchised minority communities,” he said.…

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Politics

Oregon… recriminalizing…

March 1, 2024By

“The passage of this bill will still be a regression toward the failed war on drugs,” said Rep. Mark Gamba, D-Milwaukie, who said opposing the bill was the toughest vote he’d taken as a lawmaker. “It’s a step backwards for us as a society.” Democrats who backed the bill argue this treatment-forward approach would still…

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Science

…psychedelic vape

March 1, 2024By

Democratization of psychedelic chemistry and extraction methods, coupled with ubiquitously available and cheaply manufactured disposable vaporizer technology, has packed the most powerful known psychoactive substances into portable devices… DMT… 2C-B… [etc.] the long-term effects of vaping are largely unknown to science, let alone any potential adverse effects derived from the psychoactive chemicals being layered on…

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