[Colorado] voters passed a referendum in 2022 to decriminalize certain… [naturally-occurring psychedelics] by a wider margin than one to allow grocery stores to carry wine. Denver had done the same a few years prior. In the 2022 election, Colorado passed Proposition 122, which decriminalized the consumption, cultivation and possession of a handful of psychedelic drugs,…
…based on figures released by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, an average of 195 Americans died every single day in 2021 In Multnomah County, Oregon, fatal opioid-related overdoses saw a fivefold increase between 2018 and 2022, according to public health data. A record-high 209 people in the county died from fentanyl overdoses last year. Andrew Suchocki… medical director……
University of Michigan and Columbia University; scientists report that the use of non-LSD hallucinogens in the United States nearly doubled between 2018 and 2021 among young adults under the age of 30. In 2018, the prevalence of young adults who used hallucinogens other than LSD over the prior year was 3.4 percent. By 2021, that…
Colorado voted to legalize psilocybin in 2022 [including state-wide home cultivation] and Oregon was the first state to allow adults to use [it] after a successful ballot measure passed in 2020. James Davis [who now runs Bay Staters for Natural Medicine] said legalization in Massachusetts would reduce the stigma that surrounds research scholars from studying…
…a shroom tender… psilocybin is still astoundingly just like cannabis, a schedule one controlled substance… criminal penalties for people who are just trying to help themselves and heal themselves. There’s no reason to get law enforcement involved with any of this. Now, I can see both sides of the argument about the benefit of doing…
Christian Angermayer (billionaire) owns an extensive art collection that includes ancient artifacts highlighting the role that psychedelics have played in human history… that is, the inventors’ definition controls, “even if it is contrary to the conventional meaning of the term” according to Christopher G. Paulraj, Tina E. Hulse, & Sheridan K. Snedden… the U.S. Patent…
…psychedelics spurred new growth in both baby and mature neurons. But the mind-bending substances were 1,000 times more efficient than Prozac at grabbing onto a key molecular hub, TrkB. With just a single dose, the drugs elevated mood in mice under chronic stress and reduced a previously-established fear. Psychedelics produce fast and persistent antidepressant effects…
Reggie Harris, founder of Oakland Hyphae, a Black-owned psychedelic education and cultural organization, said half a gram of shrooms costs less than $1 to produce. “What are we paying for? Are we paying for the 1-2 hours for somebody to sit with you on a microdose? No insurance is paying for this, it’s a straight out…
…has leased the top floor of the Fair-Haired Dumbbell office building, at 11 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. The 5,000-square-foot space in the colorful building is currently under design, with an emphasis on making it a calming and comfy environment, said Rachel Aidan… [former CEO of the now bankrupt Synthesis which locked 300 students out…
While the high cost of services (possibly unavoidable under current rules) is a constant focus, particularly among advocates and the broader psychedelic community, I often find myself debating the terminology for psilocybin services under Measure 109, particularly the use of the term “therapy.” Using “therapy” to describe services under Measure 109 is… a misnomer. In traditional healthcare settings, therapy…
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