The value of psilocybin is undeniable… this psychoactive substance is found in hundreds of mushroom species across the globe… if cannabis [plants]… [are] any indication, psilocybin [ie, psilocybe mushrooms are] not going to be federally rescheduled anytime soon… it’s unsurprising that many states and cities are taking their citizens’ mental health into their own hands.…
For the first time in the history of the $26 billion legal pot market, employment declined last year, according to a new study… but analysts have high hopes for 2023. This year, cannabis sales are expected to grow by almost 12%, according to Whitney Economics, a cannabis-focused data firm. By 2024, Whitney forecasts 20% nationwide…
…proposed legislation would effectively extend a moratorium on new cannabis business licenses by tying future licenses to Oregon’s population. Oregon’s legal marijuana industry has faced slumping wholesale prices before, with the median wholesale price of a pound of cannabis falling to $649 in April 2019, according to OLCC data… The OLCC report estimated demand was…
H 3589 – Concerning the legalization of certain natural plants and fungi would legalize the possession, cultivation, and personal use of plants and fungi that contain psilocybin, N,N-dimethyltryptamine (DMT), psilocin, ibogaine and mescaline for people 21 or older. It would explicitly prohibit the sale or transfer of the substances for financial gain and would limit…
Protecting the right to grow… psychedelic… at home is a health and economic justice issue… convenience and commerce at the expense of public health is nothing new… I saw growing my own as a way to end my reliance on this prohibition-driven headache… has made me less susceptible to the commercialization… it grounds me and…
A psilocybin research bill cleared a Washington State House committee… passing on a bipartisan 23-8 vote after lawmakers rejected a Republican-led amendment to restore the measure’s original provisions to broadly legalize facilitated use of the drug. In [prior] Senate committees… Democrats subsequently gutted the bill, removing legalization provisions and instead creating a task force and advisory group…
Dave Miller [of Oregon Public Broadcast (OPB)]: “Do you feel that it is a professional necessity or benefit for you to do a supervised session yourself to better understand the world you are a part of regulating?“ Angela Allbee: “I think it’s important to remember that I work for the Oregon Health Authority, a State…
Bay Staters for Natural Medicine, a grassroots community group with more than three thousand volunteers across New England, has worked with five city councils to pass measures decriminalizing psychedelic plants, including psilocybin mushrooms. Now the group has set its eyes on another goal: ensuring that psychedelic treatments are kept affordable for residents in the future.…
The Wine & Spirits Wholesalers of America (WSWA) said that “the current conflict between state and federal law is not only causing adverse consequences for consumers and non-consumers of cannabis but will also have long-term public health and safety costs that are too great to ignore.” …makes a point to endorse the idea of having…
Our mission: decriminalize fungi and plant medicines for home growing, group healing, and ceremonial and religious purposes. Working initially in Portland… this resolution declares that the investigation, arrest, and prosecution of anyone engaging with entheogenic substances shall be among the City of Portland’s lowest enforcement priorities and recognizes the right to cultivate, prepare, possess, or…
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