Modern Culture

…magic mushroom [edibles]

Featured in High Times… potential of psilocybin mushrooms while reaping the health benefits of CBD… cultivator, supplier and exporter of… psilocybin products and biomass… in the gift shops… packaging… alongside tanning oils and sun hats. Think: gluten-free, direct trade and locally-farmed dark chocolate bars… organic psilocybin mushrooms, prioritizing purity and potency… more enjoyable and palatable……

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Biography/Memoir

…psilocybin experience in…

Nearly three years after a majority of Oregon voters said yes to [adult-use] of psilocybin [under Measure 109 (originally broad mushroom decriminalization under IP-12 before signature gathering began anew under IP-34) with and opt-out of data collection developed under HB 303 now available for privacy purposes and the additional restriction to psilocybin cubensis species only] …facilitators…

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Politics

Cannabis trade association files motion to halt [Oregon’s]… aspergillus testing

“We don’t have any research or data to cite that show people have fallen ill from inhaling Aspergillus through cannabis products,” [said] Oregon Health Authority spokesman Jonathan Modie. The Oregon Health Authority began requiring March 1, 2023 that cannabis farmers and producers test their products for aspergillus, a fungus that thrives around organic matter… if…

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Politics

Lane County [Oregon] Sheriff’s deputies serve warrant… make arrest…

More than 4,000 pounds of marijuana and… …700 large grow bags of psilocybin mushrooms also were discovered… on a property in unincorporated Lane County [Oregon] [7/25/2023]. [On June 8, 2023, court documents show, police busted a psilocybin grow house and major interstate mushroom-and-weed distribution operation in a 5,000-square-foot mansion bordering a Northeast Portland country club.…

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Biography/Memoir

Satya Inc… partnership with Myco-Method…

Andreas Met CEO and Co-Founder… [Satya, Inc.]… close collaboration with Myco-Method… “We are excited to collaborate with Satya for our residency and practicum components, as well as support their establishment of a safe, ethical, and socially responsible environment for transformation” said Shasta Winn, Program Director at Myco-Method… The Higher Education Coordinating Commission issued a cease-and-desist…

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Politics

Making money in the psychedelics industry will be harder than cannabis

As of now [July 2023], only Oregon has a regulated psychedelics industry (psilocybin [cubensis] only)… service centers will also need to be limited in scope due to people consuming psychedelics as part of a religious practice or sacrament. …there is a massive spike in religious use of psychedelics… it seems very clear that religious use of psychedelics far…

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Politics

Advocacy groups respond to [New Approach PAC] Massachusetts psychedelic ballot campaign

Three Massachusetts community groups are responding to the psychedelic ballot campaign formed this month by New Approach PAC, a Washington, DC-based political action committee. The organizations include Bay Staters for Natural Medicine, New England Veterans for Plant Medicine, and Parents for Plant Medicine… issued a press release… to express concerns… “It seems like this Super PAC wants to turn mushrooms…

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Politics

Minneapolis Mayor makes psychedelics “lowest enforcement priority”

Mayor Jacob Frey of Minneapolis issued an executive order [7/21/23]… making the possession and cultivation of psychedelics such as psilocybin the lowest law enforcement priority for city police and officials; instructing the city’s police officers to, in essence, look the other way when it comes to… certain… psychedelic[s]. Many users of psychedelics oppose efforts to…

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Science

UC Berkeley… psychedelics survey

The majority of American voters support policy reforms for psychedelics, the survey revealed… over half of voters (56%) polled support obtaining FDA approval for psychedelics by prescription. Almost half (49%) support removing criminal penalties for personal use and possession with support for spiritual and religious use polling at just over four out of ten (44%)……

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