Biography/Memoir

Patented…

Paul Stamets… US patent… covers combinations of psilocybin and lion’s mane extract, alone and with niacin, has been issued… is now the subject of a drug development push by Stamets’… Paul Stamets will be issued a… patent exploring the medicinal properties of psilocybin, a major psychoactive component of the Psilocybe mushrooms that now bear his…

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Anthropology

…psychedelic decriminalization/legalization… religious use… dispensaries… spreading…

City council meetings have become key forums for rolling back the drug war… Current laws must change, agrees the psychedelic movement. But what to replace them with is a hot debate. In Oregon [which] now regulates psilocybin as an… [adult use] tool… for example. Some Decriminalize Nature advocates opposed the measure because of barriers to who can…

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Biography/Memoir

…psilocybin mushroom grow house…

…narcotics detectives with the Fresno County Sheriff’s Office, Special Investigations Task Force (SITF) seized… …500 plastic tubs containing psilocybin mushrooms in the early developmental stages… the tubs had the potential of producing close to 33,000 grams in a year. Detectives also uncovered 3,600 grams of processed mushrooms… Original Article (KMPH)Nearly 500 tubs of “magic mushrooms”…

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Politics

Oklahoma House has passed a psilocybin decriminalization bill

…the state’s Republican-controlled House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly, 62-30, to pass House Bill 3414… ….bill would decriminalize the possession of up to one and a half ounces of psilocybin… instead of jail time, those found in possession of psilocybin would only face a $400 fine. Original Article (Any Law):Oklahoma House has passed a psilocybin decriminalization billArtwork…

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Politics

The expense… psilocybin service center will make shrooms a costly experience

Expected charge for a single psilocybin… session… $3,000… One of the biggest criticisms of Oregon’s psilocybin program, run by the Oregon Health Authority, is that guided therapy sessions will be unaffordable for most people because of the costs involved. Original Article (Willamette Week):The expense of opening a psilocybin service center will make shrooms a costly…

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Politics

Rhode Island lawmakers… decriminalize psilocybin… home cultivation…

A Rhode Island House committee held a hearing on Thursday [3/9/3023] on a bill that would remove penalties for the use and possession of psilocybin and allow the home cultivation of psychedelic mushrooms for personal use. Rhode Island legalized marijuana for adults through an act of the legislature last spring. The first retail shops opened in December. Medical…

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Politics

Oklahoma… psilocybin bill protecting patients from prosecution…

…providing legal protections against prosecution for people with eligible conditions who possess the psychedelic. …people who face prosecution over psilocybin possession would be afforded an affirmative defense if they can “demonstrate by clear and convincing evidence” that they have a medical condition that falls under the list of study subjects like PTSD or chronic pain.…

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Biography/Memoir

‘Father of Cannabis Science’ Raphael Mechoulam…

Raphael Mechoulam, the first person to synthesize THC, earning him the moniker the “Father of Cannabis Science,” has died at 92. THC, CBD, and CBG are basically household names today… …while working as a chemist in the early 1960s at the Weizmann Institute, Mechoulam got some weed from the Israeli police with his goal already…

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Psychology

Psychedelic patents and pharma… drug reform advocacy

…drug prohibition is clearly one of the larger drivers of systemic inequality in the psychedelic industry, including many of the perceived problems of medicalisation. When a hospital or clinic is the only place people can access relatively harmless and common drugs, the problem is not just the hospital, the practitioners, or the manufacturer of the…

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Biography/Memoir

Oregon’s psilocybin program… trainer… bankruptcy

Rachel Aidan admitted to the company’s bankruptcy… The puzzling question is: why would this boutique SaaS company, Retreat Guru, from Canada step in to take over a financially distressed U.S. state-licensed psilocybin facilitator training program… one thing’s certain… “Allow me to emphasize”, Johnson said, “Retreat Guru is not an educational program”. The answer, according to…

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