“There are folks who have been doing this work for a very long time, but because it’s underground, they can’t really talk about their experience without fear of criminal risk,” Hughes said. “All we get access to is how it’s getting medicalized…” about $600 to begin growing his own mushrooms. “A freaking fungus never should…
In 2020, Oregon became the first state in the nation to legalize the therapeutic, supervised use of psilocybin after 56% of voters approved Ballot Measure 109… [the same year the city Washington DC certified election results show Initiative 81 passed with more than 76% support, decriminalizing personal growing, gather, and gifting of entheogenic plants and…
…courts and state agencies that are willing to run roughshod over Oregonians’ “rights of conscience.” “In Oregon there is no legal way to be a psilocybin religion, there’s no legal way to be an ayahuasca religion. There’s no way to be any type of Schedule I religion unless it’s a peyote religion and if you…
Oregon isn’t a state that generally tries to short-change people on civil liberties issues… …an expensive program [like M109] in Oregon creates a new kind of religious or spiritual inequity that I don’t think we are capable of fully comprehending yet, but it clearly exacerbates other types of social problems that already plague us. Original…
This therapeutic land rush is in turn dependent on the “return” of psychedelic science and clinical research. Here too we have seen various professional bodies and discourses, with rivalries between them, attempt to establish their dominance over the knowledge basis of psychedelics, partly with an eye to extract value for a hungry pharmaceutical and mental…
“It is nobody’s business to judge anyone’s form of ceremony, spiritual perspective, lineage, politics, or opinions.” -Jonathan Goldman of Santo Daime Church in Oregon Generally in terms of safety and long term mental health, responsible entheogenic communities provide a safe container for participants while also providing ongoing integration, peer support and care. The antidote to…
Jon Dennis finished by explaining… “the religions would no longer have to operate underground”… …emphasized that the nature of such services embodies concepts such as divinity, sacredness, and spirituality. Original Article (Harris-Bricken):Oregon psilocybin and religious practicesArtwork Fair Use: dbking
These recent developments in drug decriminalization… means we might have more friends forcing us to listen to their drug trips at dinner, but it’s also an opportunity for more people to try an alternative approach… …taking psychedelics… check all the boxes. Nature, no extreme conditions, having loved ones around, contained setups, etc… learned how to…
“Measure 110 [in Oregon] is arguably the biggest blow to the war on drugs to date.”, says Kassandra Frederique, executive director of the Drug Policy Alliance, which was behind the hard-drugs measure. It received 59% yes votes and 41% no votes, with roughly 1.9 million votes counted, according to unofficial partial results from the secretary…
The New Hampshire Supreme Court ruled last week [in the month of Dec. 2020] that a man convicted of possession of psilocybin mushrooms was wrongfully tried because his use of the psychedelic was part of his religious practices. Unlike the First Amendment freedom of religious belief under the U.S. Constitution, New Hampshire’s Constitution explicitly protects…
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