The enforcement of cannabis legalization has been a boon to police budgets across Canada… The Canadian Armed Forces and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police are continuing their annual joint search-and-destroy mission against illegal outdoor cannabis grows — another example of how the war against the plant is alive and well, despite legalization. Under Canada’s legal…
Everywhere I look I see countless interested parties and stakeholders lining up to cash in on cannabis [and now psilocybin] dollars … The outliers cannot be considered criminals solely for running the very same business operations sanctioned and exploited by the government and corporate. It must be recognized that a vibrant underground cannabis [and psychedelic]…
Insiders often refer to the “cannabis space” – a term broad enough to include a social justice movement and unapologetic capitalism – and recognize no contradiction between them. In Steve Schain’s view, even the largest and most professionally run companies are being built to be acquired when major agriculture, alcohol and pharmaceutical companies consider it…
HPPD is incredibly rare… In the 1960’s and the 1970’s, an estimate surfaced to show 1 in 20 people with hallucinogenic experiences had intermittent cases of HPPD. Fast forward to the 1990’s, and it was believed to be 1 in 50,000 regular users have chronic HPPD… Countless anecdotes from HPPD… sufferers vouch for the effects…
In Mexico, authorities say more than 60,000 people… …have been disappeared since the beginning of the U.S.-backed drug war in 2006. Original Article (Democracy Now):Mexico: 60,000 people disappeared since U.S.-backed drug war beganArtwork Fair Use: Grupo Reforma
…a nascent effort… to reduce penalties on the use, possession and cultivation of mushrooms and other psychedelic plants. The group, which held its inaugural meeting… is proposing a ballot initiative that would make pursuing and prosecuting residents for having mushrooms or other psychedelic plants the “lowest law enforcement priority for the District of Columbia.” Original…
…the only municipal body of its kind in the world with a mandate to collect data and report on the impacts of psilocybin decriminalization in a metropolitan area. Denver was the first city in the United States to decriminalize the personal possession, personal use, and personal cultivation of psilocybin mushrooms last May in a stunning…
“It’s not going to be easy, but this is happening everywhere,” says Lavasani, 38. “This is a movement that’s going on across the country.” That movement kicked off in earnest last year when Denver residents voted to decriminalize the possession and use of psychedelic mushrooms. Oakland followed, and now groups in 100 cities across the…
…psilocybin initiative would decriminalize personal use, possession, and cultivation of psilocybin mushrooms for residents over age 18. It would also allow clinicians and researchers to use psilocybin for medical and scientific purposes, create a licensing and regulatory system for retail psilocybin sales, and provide expungement and post-conviction relief for psilocybin offenses. Original Article (Filtermag):California’s Mushroom…
[Some] micro-doser[s] [claim he/she/they] doesn’t have time for an eight-hour-long trip. They have businesses to scale. … [however, research] supports the idea that… [visionary states] play a significant role in patient recovery. “They come to a profound shift of worldview, essentially a shift in a sense of self,” Griffiths said on the same segment. “Their…
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