Image : Peach Tree in Blossom with Fruit : Eight-Fold Screen Painting of the Sun, Moon, and Peach Trees An agenda report to the City Council’s Public Safety Committee, signed by City Council Member Noel Gallo, cites Decriminalize Nature Oakland’s opposition to sale of the plants. The report suggests that, to improve access, the city could…
Although the psilocybin industry is still in its nascent stages, all signs suggest that the momentum behind developing psychedelic medicines will continue to grow. As James Hamblin recently wrote in The Atlantic, “The growth of cannabis is a reminder that once there is money to be made, industries form lobbies in Washington, D.C., and it becomes…
The Vancouver Police Department said it is aware of Larsen’s online shop and is looking into it. Long-time pot advocate Dana Larsen launched his latest venture, Medicinal Mushroom Dispensary, selling microdoses of psilocybin mushrooms. “I think that just like cannabis, it is time to start to change the perception of psilocybin mushrooms,” Larsen told CTV…
Curaleaf, the Massachusetts company buying Cura’s recreational marijuana business, is backed by a Russian billionaire whose fortune helped fuel its rise. That would make Curaleaf more valuable than all but three public companies in Oregon were it based here, despite reporting less than $80 million in revenue last year along with a $56 million loss.…
Back in March 2019, the BLM issued a draft Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) that contained a provision troublesome to Fourth Amendment fans: the event would be required, as a permit condition, to hire a private security firm with the power to search any citizen who wanted to enter the event—with neither warrant nor probable cause—and turn them…
Cluster Headaches: I was 33 and living in Portland, Oregon, when I first started getting them. They came like clockwork every night at 1, dragging me out of my dreams and onto my feet. Psilocybin Containing Mushrooms: “Mind telling us what you’ve got here?” the K9 trooper asked, holding the travel case in which I…
Legislation [was introduced] on Friday, June 10, 2019 to remove a legal barrier that scientists say makes it unnecessarily difficult for them to study the medical benefits of psychedelic drugs like psilocybin and MDMA. “Academics and scientists report that provisions like this create [stigma] and insurmountable logistical hurdles to researching schedule I drugs,” the summary…
Twenty prosecutors from major cities across the U.S. are touring Portugal this month to learn about the successful implementation of the country’s drug decriminalization law. In Portugal, where all drugs were decriminalized in 2001, the prosecutors will observe the impacts of that nationwide policy, which according to research has reduced incarceration rates and improved public health…
In other words: no one… [ought to] go to jail for fungus. The shrooms won. In a nail-biting, first-of-its kind result, Denver voters decided to decriminalize a psychedelic: psilocybin mushrooms. “The last day has been the trip of my life,” said Kevin Matthews, head of the Decriminalize Denver campaign. “We won!!” With this initiative, city…
On average, 50 people were arrested in each of the last three years by Denver police for the sale or possession of psilocybin… Eleven of those cases were prosecuted. “One of the folks very much involved with our campaign was one of those people,” says Sovine-Miller. “[He] was arrested and thrown in jail, and still…
