“Our coalition opposes creating a model based on Oregon,” says James Davis, Bay Staters executive director and co-founder. “It is still highly illegal to possess and grow psychedelics outside of regulated use in Oregon, and Measure 109 did nothing to change that.” “Measure 109 established a highly regulated market for psilocybin services – too regulated,…
Oregon’s political leaders themselves played central roles in failing to deliver on the potential for law enforcement to connect people with lifesaving services under the new measure, documents and interviews with a wide array of people involved in the system indicate. The Legislature, the court system and the bureaucracy under two governors ignored or rejected…
For decades in the U.S., police officers have served as the frontline troops in a militarized war on drugs in which millions were jailed for non-violent offenses. But a small cadre of serving and former police officers, in the U.S. and across the world, are – like Gergerian – finding that when used responsibly and therapeutically, some of the…
Events allowing the display and sharing of psilocybin mushrooms have already taken place on a smaller scale in Denver… slated for June 9 [2024]; Denver Shroom Fest… the city’s “first psychedelic mushrooms festival”… “This is more so a cultural celebration. It’s really like a festival, so we’re going to have live music, food trucks, vendors,…
At first, the goal was to use psychedelics to heal veterans (as indicated by MAPS’s public relations between 2005 and 2012). Then, in 2012, Doblin shifted to suggesting that psychedelics might be used to heal traumatized active-duty soldiers. Now, MAPS’s founder calls for military recruits to be dosed upon enlistment. This latest turn was announced…
Sean McAllister of McAllister Law Office [in the State of Colorado]; Executive Officer of the Denver Psilocybin Mushroom Policy Review Panel and Decriminalize Denver legal advisor for Measure 301 in 2019 that removed criminal penalties for the possession and cultivation of psilocybin in the city… …the best way to stay out of trouble is to…
Grant Hartley, the Multnomah County director of Metropolitan Public Defenders, predicted the new citations [built into HB 4002] would overload the system. His office is already short-staffed, with public defenders averaging 100 cases apiece, he said. “We have a humanitarian crisis,” Hartley said. “It’s embarrassing to see people out on the street. But injecting thousands…
It would be one thing if arguments against the decriminalization of psychedelics were being made. But that’s not the case. Instead, the lumping together of psychedelics and opioids seems to have gone largely unnoticed, setting up personal use of psychedelics to become an unintended casualty of Oregon’s opioid crisis. By treating all drugs as an…
Backers of Oregon’s psychedelic mushroom law made big promises when they pitched Measure 109 to voters in 2020. Oregonians would get access to a life-changing compound in a safe, legal setting, and, after a two-year startup period, it wouldn’t cost taxpayers a dime. But two years have come and gone, and Oregon Psilocybin Services is…
As is often the case when it comes to drug topics, emotions have taken precedence over facts. Not only is it inaccurate to say that Measure 110 failed, but we actually can say after a century of opioid prohibition in the U.S. that drug criminalization has not worked to make anything better. It is true…
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