‘Is it better to be illegally alive or legally dead?’ “I know I am breaking the law but the law as it stands is an ass. I don’t deal drugs. I have been very open about it and when police officers came to my house and asked me if I grew… I admitted it and…
Going on a trip is not about escaping issues within the relationship, but about finding your way home. And you can feel that in your bones. “Psilocybin [mushroooms are] something that can help you, and make you a better person and partner or parent and child because it releases the obstacles we’ve built up around…
But Ryan Dunevar from Decriminalize California worries that legalizing only medical uses would be too restrictive. The cost of therapy “eliminates a lot of people, which means basically only rich white people would be able to use it,” says Dunevar. “This is a people’s movement,” says Larry Norris.”There’s a much broader range of people who maybe can’t…
Treating others as less than human and treating nature as less than ourselves is, I think, one of the gravest wrongdoings that we humans are capable of. I try to have compassion rather than judgement about it … I’d be extremely worried if corporations pushed for legislation to prevent individual use. We have an incredible…
Kratom was primarily taken orally in doses of 1−3 g (49 %), with daily use (59 %) being most common. Kratom was used for pain (91 %), anxiety (67 %), and depression (65 %), with high ratings of effectiveness. 1,144 (41 %) used kratom to stop or reduce prescription or illicit opioid use, citing decreased…
Venture capital is afoot in psychedelic country, practically boiling under the surface. Advertising for emerging psychedelic clinics and services will predictably tap into the same utopian rhetoric promising a bright, progressive future. A medical model treats psychedelic therapy as a solution to individual mental illnesses, but these individual neuroses have roots that draw nourishment from bedrock…
“Our point is that trauma falls on a spectrum and relationships themselves can be traumatic,” he explains. “What causes a lot of relationships to break down over time is traumatic or semi-traumatic events that take place either inside or outside the relationship. People start to close down and stop sharing with their partners. Insofar as…
The history of cannabis in South Africa contains two particular trajectories that were sometimes in direct contradiction with one another. The one, the 100-year-old effort to prohibit its use. The other, a history of colonial governments and administrators trying to develop cannabis in order to make money out of it. The ripples of this historical contradiction are…
“Or will they create The Psilocybin Act? And psilocybin regulations? With licensed producers?” Dana Larsen asks, laughing at the absurdity of history repeating itself. He suggests the smartest and easiest transition would be to add psilocybe mushrooms to Canada’s [and United States] natural health products, which includes herbal remedies and traditional medicines. John Conroy, a…
Activists celebrated their city becoming the third in the U.S. in less than a year to decriminalize certain psychedelic substances. The word “cultivation” was also removed from provisions specifying the measure’s scope. But before the full Council vote on Tuesday, several advocates used the public comment portion of the meeting to urge that it be…
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