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What does it mean…

This is the best way to explain it: Say you really love to grow tomatoes. You can grow as many tomatoes as you want, pick them, and make as big of a dinner as you want with those tomatoes. There’s no government oversight over how many tomatoes you can grow, gather, or gift. That’s because…

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…psilocybin therapy opt-out

Dave: The introductory session to set the intention and to sort of get the parameters of what’s going to happen, the hallucinogenic session, and then the follow up seession… all of that is laid out in this statute you want voters to say yes to. In other words, it would be Oregon law that people…

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…psychedelics efforts advance, ‘shrooms could…

…grew out of concerns that… lead to a for-profit industry that would end up making it harder for people who’d traditionally used psychedelic drugs to access them… support a ‘grow, gather, gift’ model, so it means you’re growing your own… “Once you create a market, and a legal, regulated access framework, what you’re doing is…

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Many counties are voting to opt out… [of M109]

…you won’t be able to purchase it and take it home, Angela Allbee said… if you were to just look at the map… you’ll quickly grow concerned and confused about the future of Measure 109 in Oregon. After all, didn’t the state vote “Yes?” …clients will have an opportunity to take psilocybin in a controlled,…

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Avoiding the power trip

Maybe most important of all… looking at what Timothy Leary would have called the “set and setting” in which today’s psychedelic renaissance is occurring. Is it one of love, mutual aid, and collective development? Or is it about control, profit, and further domination? This matters. …this dovetailed all-too-well with John Barlow telling the psychedelic internet that…

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Psilocybin microdosing… scientific [studies]

The new study is one of the first to use placebo controls, the researchers [erroneously, apparently] said. For their study, researchers recruited 34 people who were planning to start a microdosing regimen. For 1 week, some of the subjects got a half gram of dried mushrooms in a gel cap, and others got a placebo……

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Cities, counties will ask voters to ban psilocybin facilities

Measure 109 Implementation and Local Government Role. (Alex Cuyler, Lane County Intergovernmental Relations Manager)… this issue does not neatly fit into existing County Policy… under Measure 109, psilocybin-producing fungi is recognized as a crop for the purpose of a farm use, a farm, and farming practice… service center may not be located in municipalities on…

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What mushrooms can do for N.J.: A Q&A with a psilocybin expert

New Jersey just launched its recreational marijuana industry three months ago, and now its architect is proposing that the state legalize psilocybin, the… compound found in magic mushrooms. The bill drafted by Sen. Nick Scutari allows anyone over 21 to use the psychedelic drug and to grow it at home – no prescription necessary… Original…

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