Biography/Memoir

Lane county…

The Lane County District Attorney’s Office reinstated the No File Policy for nonviolent, Class C felonies and low-level misdemeanor crimes. Among other crimes, here’s a list that the DA’s office will dismiss: all possession of a controlled substance charges and delivery of controlled substances charges that are non-prison eligible… the policy does not apply to…

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Politics

Psilocybin microdosing… scientific [studies]

The new study is one of the first to use placebo controls, the researchers [erroneously, apparently] said. For their study, researchers recruited 34 people who were planning to start a microdosing regimen. For 1 week, some of the subjects got a half gram of dried mushrooms in a gel cap, and others got a placebo……

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Politics

Cities, counties will ask voters to ban psilocybin facilities

Measure 109 Implementation and Local Government Role. (Alex Cuyler, Lane County Intergovernmental Relations Manager)… this issue does not neatly fit into existing County Policy… under Measure 109, psilocybin-producing fungi is recognized as a crop for the purpose of a farm use, a farm, and farming practice… service center may not be located in municipalities on…

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Medicine/Healing

…soaring… psilocybin retreats

“…if we can help people suffering from PTSD, depression, trauma, and addiction – including veterans, cancer patients, and others – supervised psilocybin therapy is a treatment worthy of further consideration,” says Oregon Governor Kate Brown. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has designated psilocybin therapy as “breakthrough therapy” for treatment-resistant depression and major depressive disorder…

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Biography/Memoir

…potency of psychedelics in the brain

[From his two-story lab in University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill School of Medicine, Bryan Roth’s experiments are underway to remove the powerful hallucinogenic effects from psychedelic drugs… idea prompted a $27 million grant from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), a secretive research organization within the U.S. military… everyone from the Department of…

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Biography/Memoir

…administration plans for legal psychedelic therapies within two years

…letter from the Health and Human Services Department discloses the anticipated FDA approval of MDMA and psilocybin treatments… the May [2022] correspondence, not shared publicly until now, is the clearest indication yet that top officials are preparing for the approval of psychedelic drugs – demonized for decades after former President Richard Nixon sought means to…

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Biography/Memoir

Eugene police responds… overdoses

According to Lane County Public Health and Eugene Police, the community is seeing an increase in street drugs containing fentanyl – a powerful, illicit opioid with high risk for overdose. “We have seen fentanyl contamination in cheap, counterfeit pills sold as common medications such as oxycodone, Adderall, or Xanax,” the department said. “We also have…

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