…things about our relationship with visionary drugs: it’s incalculably old, globally pervasive, and rich with meaning… in 2005, two peyote “buttons” (the crown of the peyote cactus) recovered from Shumla Cave in southwest Texas were radiocarbon dated to 3780-3660 BC. Later analysis by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry detected the naturally occurring psychedelic compound mescaline in both…
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…
…talk to almost anyone who has begun tripping recently and you learn that most of them are confronting the end times, not running from them. Mushrooms have been popular in this part of the world since the 1960s… the cool, wet state is perfect for growing Psilocybe semilanceata, the slender little ‘shroom better known as the…
“We are trying to be above-ground for a reason…” said Brian Cantalupi. The rising demand… has led to hundreds of churches… “In every major city in the United States, every weekend, there’s multiple ayahuasca ceremonies. It’s not just a twice-a-year thing,” said Sean McAllister, who represents an Arizona church in a lawsuit against the federal…
…counterculture wisdoms for whom these… were never “fringe,” but always foundational. In place… the emergence of well-capitalized biotech companies offering multimillion-dollar IPOs/pursuit of standardization… we emphasize the care and wisdom of the Indigenous and countercultural teachings – traditions that have made psychedelics available to the emerging corporate/research partnership in the first place… Original Article (Anthropology…
Is all this time and money worth it? Given that the sessions are expected to cost hundreds, if not thousands, of dollars – and, obviously, won’t be covered by insurance… I find it hard to believe there’ll really be enough rich people to keep all the currently training PSFs [psilocybin services facilitator] busy. (Then again,…
After a few failed attempts at finding fungus in the neighboring cow pasture, Mom got an eighth from a friend and said she’d split it with me. Mom and I started tripping. The mushrooms made everything seem fresh. On one of the first trips from my mother’s homegrown batch, I remember watching the green nautiluses…
…if the city was concerned about the store, it could have filed a restraining order instead of asking for a search warrant… not aware of the city sending a cease and desist order or pursuing an injunction. …highlighted that there are no reports of anyone being harmed by the products allegedly sold at the store……
“Based on the government’s allegations… thought what they were doing was lawful,” said… public defender… the judge set each of their bails at $1.5 million… Senator Elizabeth Steiner said, “This was 100% not what was intended with Measure 109. I don’t think I can be any clearer than that.” She continued, “The therapeutic psilocybin will…
…many people aren’t going to wait… …while the legal status of these shops are in limbo, overall, it’s a sign that times are changing faster than policymakers know how to respond. What’s even more compelling than these openings is the extreme demand for [psilocybin]… hundreds of Portland, Oregon residents stood in line for hours in…
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