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Former UO pre-med student gets jail and probation for dealing LSD, psychedelic mushrooms

“Lane County Circuit Judge Mustafa Kasubhai said during… sentencing hearing that he ­regretted not being able to ­impose a harsher sentence.” …had applied to medical school before the incident but eventually withdrew from the U of O, four classes short of obtaining his human physiology degree… “He knows that he’s not going to become a…

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Algorithmic reduction of psychedelic states

“Every…psychedelic researcher has a pet theory of what these compounds are really doing in one’s mind. Many of these folk theories about the effects of psychedelics involve ontologies that currently have little scientific support (such as souls, thought fields, spirit worlds, archetypes, alien conspiracies, and so on).” Although we cannot rule out explanations of this…

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LSD now: How the psychedelic renaissance changed acid

“Nonetheless, psychedelics – including acid – have unquestionably returned to the American mainstream. One study suggests that Google searches for LSD nearly doubled between 2012 and 2014, and the amount of activity around the world – including the organization of a worldwide psychedelic community – suggests an almost undeniable psychedelic uptick.”  The growing acceptance has…

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LOCAL Eug VOICES: Real Issues.

“On the death of a Eugene youth at a local addiction treatment center and in the defense of ethnobotanical plants such as Iboga, Kratom, and others. When the science is ignored, the people continue to suffer.” Whenever a loved one is lost due to allegations of medical malpractice, pangs of anguish emerge. How can those we trust to care for…

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Would you take LSD to give you a boost at work? …a trip inside the world of microdosing

“It is no longer a fad. It is being accepted as a very different way to more safely benefit from psychedelics without any ‘psychedelic effects’,” he says. In such low doses, psychedelics should be viewed more like anti-depressants and cognitive enhancers. “Except you take them far less often.” Activating the brain: LSD affects the brain’s…

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