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3 men charged… magic mushroom…

Three men have been charged after psilocybin (magic mushroom)… allegedly sold at an Oshawa business. Two Oshawa men, ages 39 and 62, and a 26-year-old Richmond Hill man are charged with possessing a controlled drug or substance for the purpose of trafficking and possessing proceeds obtained by crime under $5,000… police executed a search warrant…

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…psychedelic… advance… 2024 ballot

Advocates looking to advance their ballot questions to the 2024 state elections cleared another hurdle Wednesday, December 6, 2024 when they submitted thousands of signatures to the secretary of state’s office. Massachusetts for Mental Health Options, the group behind the psychedelics question, said they turned in more than 95,000 signatures to Galvin’s office. Supporters showed…

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Massachusetts weighs the… future of… psychedelics…

In Massachusetts… there would be… protections for underground trippers… as in Colorado… [but unlike Oregon’s M109 which doesn’t protect personal cultivation or sharing of psilocybe mushrooms ] no one would be arrested for growing and sharing a reasonable amount of mushrooms. New Approach [PAC] may pour millions into a sophisticated campaign. The state could erect…

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Mushroom Dispensary

In 2019 I founded Get Your Drugs Tested, a free service which analyzes street drugs for users. It’s now the world’s busiest… of its kind – 58,000 samples analyzed. Funded entirely by sales of cannabis & mushrooms from my dispensaries. Original Article (X [formerly known as Twitter]):Mushroom DispensaryArtwork Fair Use: Dana Larsen

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Colorado crafting psychedelics…

According to Dominique Mendiola… will emphasize practices to avoid arrests, hospitalization and involuntary mental health commitments, but she recognizes that behavioral experiences are intended with some psychedelics. Colorado followed Oregon, becoming the second state to legalize… psilocybin… but Oregon didn’t decriminalize the personal cultivation and possession of psilocybin, DMT, mescaline and ibogaine. Mendiola, who also…

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…practical guide…

Existing commercial interests in the medical psychedelics sphere may unfortunately be ambivalent about, or even actively obstruct wider reform efforts where they perceive it as undermining progress towards medical or therapeutic commercialisation… [therefore] exploring options for non-commercial market models can also be an important component of this strategy. This should certainly include allowing home cultivation,…

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Manufacturing psilocybin isn’t difficult… industry is

The strictly facilitated model is not the only way to envision psilocybin access; community-based ceremony, the ability to experience psilocybin around members of your own community, is preferable to many groups and cultures. Some advocates say that legalization without decriminalization makes community-based sharing less accessible. How extreme is wealth inequality in Oregon? So extreme that,…

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…store selling psilocybin mushrooms vows to reopen after police raid

A downtown Kelowna store that’s been selling psilocybin mushrooms was raided by police on Friday, but the owners vow to reopen soon. Essence Wellness… stating they’ll be reopening “in the next coming days.” Storefronts selling psilocybin products have been recently popping up in Vancouver, where they’re following the example set by the “grey market” cannabis…

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…groundbreaking…

The psychedelic gold rush raises a range of challenging questions around the commercialisation and availability of psychedelics and the risk of corporate capture… [therefore]… …a four-tiered regulation model “that attempts to manage the variety of psychedelic preparations and the different ways in which they are used”. These include: 1) Private use, home cultivation, foraging and not-for-profit…

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