Under the new law, possession and use of entheogenic plants and fungi will be among the District’s lowest law enforcement priorities. Because Congress oversees policy in the capital city, the new D.C. psychedelics measure will go into effect after a 30-day review period during which time federal lawmakers have the opportunity to block the reform,…
We must proceed with caution… with the world’s entheogenic heritage at risk, can the psychedelic renaissance make a difference? It only takes a quick search to learn about the atrocities being committed in similar places around the world. From land grabs in the Amazon to the bloody history of Wirikuta, Mexico, where the Huichol’s sacred…
…measure would allow adults to cultivate, possess, distribute, transport, and consume magic mushrooms in California. A grassroots initiative is already gaining traction in California at the same time lawmakers are considering the decriminalization bill. Decriminalize California has set a goal of collecting 623,212 valid signatures to qualify the California Psilocybin Decriminalization Initiative for the November…
Psychedelic kitchen science shares a genealogy with personal computing, both with roots in 1970s Northern California counterculture and its communalism, pragmatism, and eco-modern aesthetic. While these histories have diverged, reconverged, and diverged again, home cultivators and hackers still share critical attitudes towards science and technology—especially in their principled freedom from the norms of professional science…
During any crisis, radical ideas tend to come from troops at the front, rather than from the centre. Drugs are no exception. …evidence of new ways of handling narcotics, soft and hard, has poured in from around the world. The Netherlands, Switzerland and Portugal have been in the lead, with the US and Canada across…
Noting that Somerville, [MA] had recently passed a similar measure with the support of its mayor and legal department. “For this resolution, I reached out to [our] city manager, the solicitor and the police commissioner, and none had objections.” “The city, of course, can’t legalize any drugs on our own – that’s up to the…
The president of the Colorado Springs City Council recently surprised everyone when he commended the therapeutic benefits of psilocybin mushrooms during a City Council regular meeting, sharing a personal story about how… has positively affected his life. Decriminalize Nature is a national movement with chapters in cities across the US , all dedicated to the…
of the following a noncriminal violation. Less than… 1 gram of heroin,1 gram of, or less than 5 pills of, MDMA,2 grams of methamphetamine,40 units of LSD,12 grams of psilocybin,40 units of methadone,40 pills of oxycodone, 2 grams of cocaine. Original Article (Oregon Legislature):Measure 110: background briefArtwork Fair Use: Public Domain
Launched… Center for Psychedelic Psychotherapy and Trauma Research Mount Sinai Health System is New York City’s largest academic medical system, encompassing eight hospitals… medical school, and a… network of ambulatory practices throughout the greater New York region. Original Article (Eureka Alert):Mount Sinai launches psychedelics research centerArtwork Fair Use: Public Domain
Unlike Oregon’s Measure 110, which decriminalized possession of small amounts of [psilocybin], Measure 109 did not decriminalize psilocybin. Instead, it calls for a regulatory framework… [Additionally, the authors of the John’s Hopkins-Lancet Commission on Public Health and International Drug Policy call for non-violent minor drug offenses including use, possession, and petty sale, to be decriminalized]. [And finally], November…
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