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…microdosing kit…

According to Martin, while consuming larger doses of psychedelics (i.e. macrodosing) can be particularly helpful for people with mental health issues who are adequately prepared and/or under the care of an experienced guide, microdosing offers its own rewards. …as the psychedelics movement evolves and decriminalization efforts progress, access to this potentially transformative molecule will improve. “It’s…

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Could psychedelics help us resolve the climate crisis?

We increasingly live in an age of extinction. Nature is in retreat, urbanism and everyday alienation from nature is establishing itself as the norm, and we are confronting loss on a scale we find difficult to acknowledge and process. In such unprecedented times, we can find ourselves trapped in dissociative psychological states, knowing about environmental crisis while doing…

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[Cannabis] edibles are just as safe as [was] thought

Private enterprise, despite its promises to self-regulate, will never self-regulate sufficiently, since regulations and warnings often get in the way of making profits. And that begins with open, fair communication and education campaigns with as wide and persistent a reach as any message regarding alcohol or tobacco products. The report [on cannabis edibles] notes that edibles…

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The goal of legalized cannabis shouldn’t be corporate gold

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]…

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A glimpse of life… magic mushroom [integration]

America’s coming debate over psychedelics will be fierce; fears of public health and moral decline will swirl around the national conversation. It was a fun week. One morning, I went to a microdose yoga class, where students, some of whom had very little experience with drugs, were served a few truffles to munch on before…

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Psychedelic… [reorientation]

The data is conclusive. Tripping is up, most notably among young people. US government statistics show 1.31 million 18- to 25-year-olds admitted taking LSD in 2017 compared with 317,000 in 2004—almost a fourfold increase since the mid 2000s. And it’s not just in the US. Even among 12th graders, the use of LSD is edging…

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Call-to-action for ethical space-holding

These times, and working in these sacred and subtle, sensitive realms require ethics that far surpasses the standards that dictate dominant paradigm interactions. What are ethically-held entheogenic containers, therapies, and ceremonies? I can tell you it is NOT : forced touch, pushing farther, harder, deeper, or more … these spaces, ceremonies, ways are meant to induce…

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