A 51-year-old Calgary man who suffers debilitating cluster headaches has won a Federal Court battle forcing Health Canada to reconsider his bid for legal access to psilocybin to treat his extreme pain. …the decision to deny Lance access to the drug “unreasonable” and “unintelligible.” Health Canada told Canadian Broadcasting Center News via email that it…
A year in, Oregon’s experiment with the first regulated psilocybin mushroom market in the world is short on customers. …a year of challenges, red tape and waning interest in guided mushroom trips under Oregon’s… legal model… to date, roughly 3,500 clients [from primarily out-of-state] have taken a supervised trip in one of Oregon’s 25 psilocybin…
In true holiday fashion, the Denver Mushroom Cooperative held a Gifting Portal for psilocybin enthusiasts… The Gifting Portal was free to attend and didn’t allow any money to change hands. Participants were encouraged to share their homegrown mushrooms as well as cultivation advice, supplies and more… the free event had a full RSVP list with an approximate…
A resoundingly negative vote by an advisory committee to the Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday [6/5/24] – though not binding – has diminished the chances of the sponsor, Lykos Therapeutics, from winning full approval for MDMA to treat post-traumatic stress disorder, industry observers said. But biotech executives, investors and researchers said in interviews that…
In five years… Church of Ambrosia has amassed 106,000 members across its two locations in Oakland and San Francisco. Ambrosia members pay $10 to join and $5 to enter the church… granting them access to church sacraments… magic mushrooms… It is thought there are now anywhere between 200 and 2,000 psychedelic churches in the US…
Officials say it took a coordinated takedown by more than 400 federal, state, and local agencies in Salem [Oregon], California and Arizona … prosecutors said Eduardo Mendoza, who went by the nickname of Casper, was arrested in Salem on Wednesday [6/5/2024]. Across the U.S.-Mexico border region of Southern California known as the Imperial Valley… the…
A 60-year-old township woman has been accused of running a psilocybin mushroom manufacturing facility at her Elwood Street home while she was caring for three minors, using one of the children to help with the operation. …the state [New Jersey] Division of Child Protection and Permanency called Lacey police after receiving information that Whalen was…
An independent advisory panel of the Food and Drug Administration rejected the use of MDMA-assisted therapy for post-traumatic stress disorder on Tuesday [6/4/2024]. While the vote is not binding on the F.D.A., the agency often follows the recommendations of its advisory panels. Members of an independent scientific advisory committee voted 9 to 2 that human…
…if you’re a middle-aged-ish parent who finds themselves, consciously or subconsciously, deconstructing all the things society has taught us to value, while at the same time grappling with growing children who no longer look to us for all the answers and whom we can no longer protect from the social toxins that are seeping into…
…its religious exemptions petition process says the United States Government Accountability Office… The process and reported barriers that exist in the legal access and use of psilocybin for religious practices under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993… According to DEA officials, in 2019, DEA initiated the drafting of a notice of proposed rulemaking related…
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