Cluster Headaches: I was 33 and living in Portland, Oregon, when I first started getting them. They came like clockwork every night at 1, dragging me out of my dreams and onto my feet. Psilocybin Containing Mushrooms: “Mind telling us what you’ve got here?” the K9 trooper asked, holding the travel case in which I…
Legislation [was introduced] on Friday, June 10, 2019 to remove a legal barrier that scientists say makes it unnecessarily difficult for them to study the medical benefits of psychedelic drugs like psilocybin and MDMA. “Academics and scientists report that provisions like this create [stigma] and insurmountable logistical hurdles to researching schedule I drugs,” the summary…
Twenty prosecutors from major cities across the U.S. are touring Portugal this month to learn about the successful implementation of the country’s drug decriminalization law. In Portugal, where all drugs were decriminalized in 2001, the prosecutors will observe the impacts of that nationwide policy, which according to research has reduced incarceration rates and improved public health…
In other words: no one… [ought to] go to jail for fungus. The shrooms won. In a nail-biting, first-of-its kind result, Denver voters decided to decriminalize a psychedelic: psilocybin mushrooms. “The last day has been the trip of my life,” said Kevin Matthews, head of the Decriminalize Denver campaign. “We won!!” With this initiative, city…
The convention ran like any hotel seminar on its given subject. In this case, the subject covered the legal, scientific and medicinal benefits and challenges of possessing and taking psilocybin mushrooms, with experts giving extensive talks on their experiences and findings about the psychoactive fungi. Advocate Cooper Read, who volunteers with the medical psychedelic support…
“I was punished for not eating,” Sean told us. “That’s how I ended up in the hole. If you refuse your tray, they consider it a behavioral issue. I didn’t know that — I was just sick.” Sean had begged his mother in court that day not to go that route. He was being sent…
The secret program, run by the Drug Enforcement Administration, ultimately gathered billions of records of nearly all phone calls from the United States to 116 countries, with little oversight from Congress or the courts. The DEA program… records – which numbers were dialed and when – allowed agents to map suspects’ communications and link them…
We found out that a group of experts and FDA and pharmaceutical companies were having private meetings and at these meetings, changing the rules for how opioids get approved. He filed Freedom of Information Act Requests. In email after email between the FDA, Big Pharma and consultants, he learned of closed-door meetings at luxury hotels,…
“No one cannabinoid is a perfect solution. So don’t put so much emphasis on THC. All the plant’s cannabinoids and ingredients contribute to achieving desired effects.” -Shane Yoakam [Ray Bowser adds], “My dad was a grower, I am, and my kids now form a third generation of growers,” he says proudly … Adam Jacques has…
What transformations are those? How do ayahuasca and psychedelics figure into them? Women going from the kitchen to the board room. People of color from the woodshed to the White House. Gay people from the closet to the altar. Environmentalism becoming quite legitimately a new religion. Fifty years ago, just getting people to stop throwing…
