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…the shadow of [Oregon] psychedelic…

The Oregon Health Authority used the Synthesis course as the template for its psychedelic… programme… at one point the Synthesis retreat facilitators tried to unionize, but instead they were shifted from long-term to short-term contracts. The first sign that things were going awry in Oregon was in early 2022; reported in Vice; that Tom Eckert –…

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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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Oregon… setback… bankruptcy

The graduation ceremony for 35 students was being held Friday [3/10/23]…Tom Eckert… InnerTrek… Rachel Aidan… Synthesis… bankruptcy… …a dosing session at a licensed center… a couch or mats for clients to sit or lie on, an eye mask, comfort items like a blanket and stuffed animals, a sketch pad, pencils and a bucket for vomiting… typically…

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…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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‘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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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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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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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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