Biography/Memoir

…magic mushroom dispensary now open in Toronto

As Canada slowly enters the era of retail magic mushrooms, Toronto is already ahead… the store supplies everything from dried psilocybin and microdose capsules to mushroom chocolates and mushroom tea. Shroomyz on Queen Street… items range anywhere from $35 for capsules to $200 for a 28-gram bag of dried mushrooms. Original Article (Daily Hive):First magic…

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Biography/Memoir

First magic mushroom dispensary now open in Toronto

As Canada slowly enters the era of retail magic mushrooms, Toronto is already ahead of the game. The store supplies everything from dried psilocybin and microdose capsules to mushroom chocolates and mushroom tea. Shroomyz on Queen Street… items range anywhere from $35 for capsules to $200 for a 28-gram bag of dried mushrooms. Original Article…

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Politics

The iron law

Drug decriminalization is coming to British Columbia. And that’s a big step forward… but the cops fought for low thresholds, and won. That means that a big proportion of drug users in BC will remain criminalized.   Our movement has been fighting for decriminalization for decades. To us, decriminalization means getting cops, courts and jails out…

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Politics

Oregon… to authorize psilocybin mushrooms

“It is a foundation on which to build,” said Representative Earl Blumenauer… representative of Oregon in the US Congress. The values were established based on the Oregon Health Authority budget, which has to be covered by its own resources. As a result, it is estimated that each treatment of three sessions to use psilocybin in one…

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Biography/Memoir

…on magic mushrooms arrested…

…Sevilla said that he took psilocybin, a psychedelic known as magic mushrooms, at Miami International Airport before boarding the flight, authorities said. Sevilla was arrested for assaults within maritime and territorial jurisdiction as well as interference with flight crew members… refused to take his seat when asked by flight attendants, opting to lay on the…

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Biography/Memoir

Meet the Colorado moms who microdose mushrooms

Tracey Tee had never experimented with illicit drugs, but from what she had heard, the experience of taking a small dose of a psilocybin mushroom seemed different from the ‘60’s-style psychedelic trip the substance is best known for. Once she took the plunge and swallowed her first capsule of a ground-up mushroom, Tee knew she’d…

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Politics

Federal cannabis policy…

“As I’ve said before, no one should be in jail just for using or possessing marijuana. Today, I’m taking steps to end our failed approach. Allow me to lay them out… We classify marijuana at the same level as heroin – and more serious than fentanyl. It makes no sense. I’m asking Secretary Xavier Becerra…

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Biography/Memoir

America’s exit drugs

National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) Director, Dr. Nora Volkow, and former National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director and recently named “Science Advisor to the President,” Dr. Francis S. Collins recognized in 2017, America’s gateway drugs are pharmaceutical opiods. With millions of Americans struggling with opioid use disorder and thousands overdosing on fentanyl every year,…

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Medicine/Healing

Psychedelic retreats offer healing only for the wealthy

Equal access is taking a back seat to exotic psychedelic retreats with exuberant price tags. Here’s why that’s a big problem… This is not opinion, but empirical fact…. after all, the luxury psychedelic retreat “eco-system” is that it offers “healing” only to those with the means and opportunity to safely consume psilocybin, ayahuasca, etc. without…

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Psychology

…entrepreneurs and the resistance to old-school psychedelia

If strong psychotropic effects are edited out of the process – as [some of] these new companies are attempting to do – then the old-school psychedelic experience has been pre-empted as unnecessary… [some] entrepreneurs have pledged allegiance to… [some version of this] thinking. The resistance to ‘psychedelic’ goes beyond mere semantic squeamishness. Johnson and Johnson,…

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