…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 allowing a small amount of people with a lot of money to come in and create a system without any respect for the systems that already do exist,” Nichole Foerster said. “There was concern that those people who are using those medicines in an unregulated system won’t be able to access the new system because of barriers to entry (and) price.” That might include indigenous groups, whose traditional use of psychedelics dates back centuries, and people who have used the substances alone or in small groups for healing purposes.
Original Article (Colorado Newsline):
As psychedelics efforts advance, ‘shrooms could land Denver rabbi in prison
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