Politics

Oregon rolls out psilocybin… as nation watches

Mushroom cultivation requires much less space, water, time and electricity than cannabis cultivation.  Measure 109 allows for local jurisdictions to opt out of allowing [IP-12 to IP-34 to Measure 109 to ORS 475A to Division 333] psilocybin services within their borders. In the last general election, more than 100 of the state’s cities and counties voted…

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Politics

What’s next… psychedelic mushrooms… road ahead…

…people who want a voice in this process… For now, there is evidence that the decriminalization of psychedelic mushrooms in Denver in 2019 has “not since presented any significant public health or safety risk in the city,” according to the Psilocybin Mushroom Policy Review Panel’s Comprehensive Report in 2021. Original Article (Aspen Times):What’s next for…

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Modern Culture

Colorado… psilocybin… home-grow

Nicole Foerster of Decriminalize Nature Boulder County… psilocybin a person can grow and possess [and share]… …any encroachment on those positions, Foerster said, “would be considered a rollback of the personal use section” of the measure… Kevin Matthews [who said, “I don’t like the word ‘fight’ – they’re prepared to defend the measure… I didn’t…

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Biography/Memoir

Oregon congressman… the trend will ‘continue’

“I still think these are the greatest thing since sliced bread,” Marty Clements says about the mushrooms. He takes a prescription bottle out of his bag, opens it and takes a couple of squares of psilocybin chocolate into his hands. He puts the chocolate back in the bottle and snaps the lid shut. Since Marty…

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Politics

Ferndale decriminalizes magic mushrooms and other psychedelics

Ferndale is the fourth Michigan city to decriminalize psychedelic plants and fungi after Detroit, Hazel Park, and Ann Arbor. Ferndale City Council unanimously approved a resolution to decriminalize… investigation and arrest of persons for planting, cultivating, purchasing, transporting, distributing, engaging in practices… with entheogenic plants and fungi like psilocybin mushrooms, ayahuasca, and dimethyltryptamine (aka DMT).…

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Biography/Memoir

Wall street… tweaks

The analog of psilocybin that Gilgamesh is developing has been designed to eliminate the hallucinogenic experiences that are often set off by so-called magic mushrooms. Researchers working with the company [including team members from ATAI, Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson, etc], administer test drugs [new chemical entities] to mice and then capture their reactions using video…

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Modern Culture

…black psychedelic…

…disproportionate drug arrests, cultural stigma regarding drugs, and lack of visibility in the space… inaccessibility, and cost. BIPOC are not included in clinical trials nearly in the same frequency as white people. Most research right now is white-centered, and it is not a secret also that the scientific community also lacks diversity. Original Article (Psychedelic…

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Politics

…psilocybin bill protecting patients from prosecution and promoting research

The House Alcohol, Tobacco and Controlled Substances Committee… …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. Oklahoma lawmakers have approved bill in…

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Spirituality

…psychedelics… mystic’s path…

…the use of psychedelics as a spiritual path… the vast majority of both active and lapsed Christians are unaware of the rich mystical traditions in the Christian faith… …this openness to the idea that we may find the divine in our own experience – that in a sense we are God, that there is no…

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