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Glut of shroom guides… [Oregon]

“It is a little heavy-hearted that we let the psilocybin program go,” Synaptic founder Matthew Hicks said. [In Oregon]… “There’s a lot of underemployed facilitators right now,” Hicks said. Original Article (Willamette Week):Glut of shroom guides leads to hold on trainingArtwork Fair Use: Public Domain

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Legalization of psychedelic drugs is on the ballot in Massachusetts

[In Massachusetts]… a yes vote would trigger the state’s commission and advisory board to establish a regulatory framework for the psychedelics… residents may also grow psychedelics in a 12-foot-by-12-foot space, as long as it’s secured from anyone under 21… Oregon was the first state to legalize psilocybin for adult use, but with a very tight…

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…women are being prosecuted for using marijuana… while pregnant following Roe’s repeal…

Wendy Bach, principal investigator of the report and professor at the University of Tennessee law school… “We learned that prosecutions in the year after Dobbs represent a high-water mark in pregnancy criminalization, following from increased suspicion and surveillance of pregnant people,” she said. “It is significant that… in thirty-one of those eighty-six cases, the only…

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Raids on magic mushroom dispensaries are a knee-jerk reaction…

The recreational and medicinal markets are far more intertwined than many are aware. As so often happens… we have seen this phenomenon with cannabis and opioids, and it now appears to be happening with psychedelics. A recent survey found that less than 34 per cent of Canadians who reported using psychedelics did so to self-medicate…

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Olympia decriminalizes some psychedelic drugs like mushrooms

“To me, it’s about allowing people to seek healing using things that are available in the world,” City Councilmember Clark Gilman said. The Olympia City Council declared that entheogens/psilocybin-related investigations, arrests, and prosecutions will have the lowest level of priority from law enforcement, meaning some psychedelic drugs like mushrooms will be decriminalized within city limits.…

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How should we sell psychedelics?

…so if we’re going to consider the retail sale of psychedelics… public conversation about how a retail psychedelic market might actually work has been all but nonexistent. So far, most debate over how to expand legal access to psychedelics has focused on segmented approaches like therapy, religious exemptions, or supervised retreat centers. The reports from Transform and RAND…

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Multnomah County, Portland leaders outline drug deflection plan

“We must offer people suffering from addiction alternatives to incarceration or we will be right back where we started,” Multnomah County Chair Jessica Vega Pederson said at a press conference. “When the drug possession laws change on Sept. 1, [2024], it is so important for us to be ready.” In Multnomah County, only people possessing…

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