In late January 2022, the Oregon state legislature filed a pre-session, psilocybin social equity bill to supplement the state’s groundbreaking Measure 109 program. That legislation is new Senate Bill 1580, sponsored by ten Democratic state lawmakers… a critical time, as Oregon’s new legal psilocybin program serves to transition psilocybin from an illegal substance into a…
Psychedelic therapies are receiving unprecedented financial and political support – and much of it comes from the right. Psychedelics can certainly increase openness – but this can be openness to Nazism, eco-fascism or UFO cults as well as to peace and love. Julius Evola, an Italian philosopher and fascist admired by both Hitler and Steve Bannon,…
…people have… found that compounds such as psilocybin can have psychotherapeutic benefits. However, that has not addressed their evolution in nature… …scientists from the University of Plymouth are conducting a first-of-its-kind study using advanced genetic methods and behavioral experiments to address previously untested hypotheses into the origin of psychedelic compounds in fungi. Original Article (Phsy.org):Scientists to…
The proposed quota for psilocybin is the same in 2023 as it was this year [2022], at 8,000 grams. But it’s looking to double the manufacturing of the other key ingredient in so-called magic mushrooms, psilocyn [ie, psilocin], from 4,000 to 8,000 grams. For LSD, the agency’s 2023 quota is 1,200 grams, almost triple the…
…the review of marijuana’s federal scheduling status will be tasked to the Food and Drug Administration… “The president was very clear – he wants this done as quickly as possible,” U.S. Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Xavier Becerra said, “It’s not new science, but there’s lot of information to gather because in many states…
While there is always room for more research to be conducted, as of now, studies have shown that kratom has many benefits… kratom leaf has been chewed for at least 150 years in Southeast Asia… Kratom has been shown in studies to have antidepressant and appetite-suppressant properties. In one animal research, researchers discovered that kratom…
60 people participated in two psilocybin trials and had their fMRI brain scans analysed by scientists… scans were taken before and after treatment… The results showed that the psilocybin treatment reduced connections within brain areas that are tightly connected in depression. According to this research, scientists found that psilocybin rewires the brain for up to…
…the supervised therapeutic use of psilocybin and psilocin, two psychoactive compounds in magic mushrooms, for adults ages 21 [&] decriminalize the personal possession, growing, use and sharing of those substances, as well as ibogaine, mescaline and dimethyltryptamine, or DMT, for adults 21 years old and up. Denver became the first city in the U.S. to…
…in mice, MDMA can reopen the critical period for social learning after it should have closed permanently. In 2019, neuroscientist Gül Dölen’s laboratory at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, found that the psychedelic drug MDMA resensitizes the brains of adult mice so they can learn from their social environment in a way that’s normally…
It would also be permissible for New Jersey citizens to grow mushrooms at home… …“authorizes production and use of psilocybin to promote health and wellness; decriminalizes, and expunges past offenses involving psilocybin production, possession, use and distribution,” the use of psilocybin, if this bill were to be enacted, would be governed by the Department of…
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