The psychedelics reform movement is quietly advancing throughout the country, with four more major cities poised to take up proposals to decriminalize [entheogens] such as psilocybin mushrooms. Advocates in Chicago, Berkeley, Portland, and Dallas are pushing decriminalization measures—either through City Council action or ballot measures. Original Article (Marijuana Moment):Four more major cities take steps to…
Is this the beginnings of a plant-based psychedelic renaissance going on in… parks, house parties and festivals? If so, what’s going on? Why – are young people getting into the psychedelic fungi? Since peaks in the late-1990s and mid-2000s, we are now seeing the green shoots of magic mushroom revival. According to Home Office data, there’s been…
“Communal and indigenous land rights are the most effective strategy to combat the negative impacts of drug trafficking and climate change simultaneously,” she wrote. “The war on drugs approach to fighting drug traffickers has to end. Rather than engaging in military-based approaches, governments and donors should invest in community and indigenous land rights and governance…
“It’s hard to tell whether Oregon will be the right state to do this in and what the next steps are,” Sutton said. Sutton said the group wasn’t only looking at changing the law in Oregon. [He said] It does make sense in Oregon, where there are already tax dollars coming in from legal recreational…
Vancouver city council struck down a motion… …to deter and prevent… [access to] psilocybin mushrooms… also known as magic mushrooms. Original Article (Cheknews.ca):Motion to prevent sale of magic mushrooms defeated by Vancouver councilArtwork Fair Use: CostaPPPR
Vancouver city council struck down a motion… to deter and prevent the sale of psilocybin mushrooms, a psychedelic drug also known as magic mushrooms. Original Article (Cheknews.ca):Motion to prevent sale of magic mushrooms defeated by Vancouver councilArtwork Fair Use: CostaPPPR
Thailand… does… allow domestic consumption of kratom. The FDA [claims it]has linked fifteen deaths between 2014 and 2016 to kratom, [however] fourteen of the victims had other substances in their system, making the actual cause difficult to determine. [Additionally, the “kratom” reported in the 15th case apparently did not distinguish between whole botanical kratom and…
By tracing cannabis evolution back to a single location on the Tibetan Plateau millions of years ago, we have uncovered the site of the original cannabis landrace strain. Fossil pollen records tell us that cannabis dispersed into Europe 6 million years ago. Then later East into China 1.2 million years ago. By mapping the distribution of…
*remainder of China’s “Great Wall”China severely punishes those caught smuggling or trafficking… including foreigners … The move puts it at odds with North America, where cannabis has increasing levels of social acceptance. Anyone found with more than 50 grams (1.76 ounces) of a controlled substance can face the death penalty. Authorities in major cities, including…
Jay Noeller, an OSU professor of crop and soil science who is to head the new center also noted a sense of an historical cycle coming around. “By bringing the center to Oregon, you can also think of it as we’re returning it home, because this was the site of national research on hemp from…
Recent Comments