Biography/Memoir

Air conditioners on a cold day?

The bust came as two states and several cities in the U.S. have decriminalized psychedelic mushrooms and their active ingredient, psilocybin… Authorities said they received a tip that the resident of the Burlington home was operating a psilocybin mushroom growing operation. Federal, state and local law enforcement officials went to the property Thursday morning and…

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Biography/Memoir

America goes psychedelic, again

…from the research labs to the streets, they became part of the counterculture… Turn on, tune in and drop out… they fueled the summer of love and protest against the war in Vietnam… thousands of demonstrators opposed to the Vietnam War; Richard Nixon saw the anti-war movements as political threats, so he fought back with…

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Biography/Memoir

Vancouver police arrest two people associated with drug-advocacy group that hands out free illicit drugs

The drugs are distributed as part of DULF’s [Drug User’s Liberation Front] compassion club, which enrolls people who use drugs as members and then distributes up to 14 grams of a substance to them per week, according to the group’s website… police seized what is believed to be heroin, methamphetamine, and cocaine… Previously the group has…

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Medicine/Healing

…using magic mushrooms…

Mason Marks, the senior fellow and lead of the Project on Psychedelics Law and Regulation at Harvard Law School’s Petrie-Flom Center, told… in an interview… that psilocybin is clearly growing in popularity as various states and cities promote new laws to decriminalize and legalize the drug. “The pieces of legislation are growing, they’re being replicated…

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Biography/Memoir

The Psychedelic Cup… psilocybe mushrooms

..the Psychedelic Club of Denver… host[ed] The Psychedelic Cup, Colorado’s first psychedelic mushroom competition open to the public, on November 2nd, 2023 at Mile High Station… …together, celebrate… local mycologists’ expertise, and learn more about the mushrooms we grow and consume… everyone over 21… join the competition and witness how their mushrooms stack up against others…

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Medicine/Healing

Federal appeals court rules against DEA In psilocybin rescheduling lawsuit brought by doctor who wants to give psychedelic to cancer patients

A federal appeals court has ruled against the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) in a lawsuit over a Washington State doctor’s petition to reschedule psilocybin. The court said DEA failed to explain its reasoning when it denied the petition, and it ordered the agency to provide a more complete justification… “Given the inadequacy of the DEA’s denial…

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