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Massachusetts… commits to home grow for 2024 ballot

On September 20, 2023, Jared Moffat, spokesman for the New Approach PAC (“New Approach”), sent an email to supporters of a 2024 Massachusetts ballot initiative that would change how the state regulates psychedelic substances, [stating] “What I believe is that decriminalizing home cultivation, is the right thing to do. And it’s the best policy because,…

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Maine’s biggest city advances proposal to decriminalize psychedelic plants and fungi

The Portland, Maine’s, Health and Human Services and Public Safety Committee… passed the resolution on a 3–0 vote… amended the bill to cover home cultivation of natural entheogens for personal use and sharing without compensation. Criminal enforcement would not change for selling, dispensing, possessing on school grounds or driving under the influence of the substances.…

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Psilocybe mushrooms: KLCC: NPR [CPR] news: morning edition: 7/4/2023

Steve Inskeep & Rob Smith: After being… [the first state]… to legalize marijuana… [for home grow…] Voter’s approved [Colorado] Proposition 122. It allows Coloradans to grow and use plants and fungi containing psychedelic substances like psilocybin… “122 gave us the opportunity to use our voice and to share the healing power of mushrooms with others,”…

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In defense of drug decriminalization – yes, in Oregon

The passage of Measure 110 was the culmination of years of efforts to show Oregonians and people across the country that the harms of incarceration can compound on, exacerbate, and – in some cases- exceed the harms caused by drug use itself. Oregon’s Health Authority has reported a 44 percent increase in people seeking treatment…

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Decriminalisation on the ground: Inside a drug consumption room in Lisbon

The Portuguese authorities have not stopped targeting organised crime. Law enforcement officials The Journal met in Lisbon confirmed that they are still seizing tonnes of drugs annually.  Psychologist Roberta Reis said many of the service users come from work in the evenings. “They come here and they can function normally,” she said. “We asked our service users…

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The medicalized psychedelic narrative is out of control

…remember when tripping on mushrooms in the forest and taking MDMA on a dance floor at an underground rave was fun? Not on the corporate psychedelia watch. Psychedelics are tools of the medical establishment now, cogs in a closed loop economy dictated by pharmaceutical conglomerates and their armies of gatekeepers. Tripping is now serious business……

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Biden administration moves to loosen weed restrictions

The DEA confirmed… that it received the letter… the DEA is not required to follow Department of Health and Human Services recommendation. The Biden administration’s Department of Health and Human Services is recommending that the Drug Enforcement Administration significantly loosen federal restrictions on marijuana but stopped short of advising that it should be entirely removed…

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Meet shroom mom, LA’s most fabulous… dealer

Around the time I met Shroom Mom, I was having a druggie fling with a fentanyl dealer… while fentanyl …boy and mushroom mama are both, technically, drug dealers, they occupy opposite ends of the spectrum: …boy pulsed with the carnivorous bloodlust of the streets, and I watched him callously cut cocaine with chemical fillers (not…

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