Politics

Magic mushroom dispensaries operating openly in Vancouver

In the City of Vancouver, buying magic mushrooms, in at least one case, can be as easy as ordering your morning cup of coffee… says city bylaw officers sometimes visit, his business license as a café was recently renewed. From the outside, the mushroom dispensary on the edge of Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside makes no attempt…

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Biography/Memoir

California… investors… Oregon’s psilocybin…

The Oregon Psilocybin Advisory Board’s final recommendations will be made to the Oregon Health Authority by June of this [2022]. Ultimately, Oregon Health Authority is the final decision maker on the matter. Sam Chapman says being funded primarily by Silicon Valley investors does not put the Healing Advocacy Fund at odds with the group’s mission…

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Biography/Memoir

…interests shaping Oregon’s psilocybin…

Oddly enough, Eckert seemingly wrote his Board position into the psilocybin law itself.  “[Eckert] wants to start a for-profit company to train facilitators while also being the one in charge of making recommendations about what kinds of requirements go into the training,” Bryan Kim, co-founder of Decriminalize Nature Portland… [said]. “So he has structurally created the…

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Psychology

The… [psychiatrization] of psychedelics…

…monopolization is aided by society’s general belief that individuals who do not choose the medically sanctioned way to get better are doing something deviant… today’s psychedelic reboot, however, leaves behind the countercultural stuff of lore in favor of professionalism, doctors’ visits, and aggressively marketed treatments for diseases of the brain… psychiatry is socially vested with…

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Spirituality

[State] supreme court rules in favor of religious freedom to use psychedelic mushrooms

According to the decision, Jeremy D. Mack of Colebrook had practiced a shamanic, Earth-based religion for years… wrote that the U.S. Constitution protects religious beliefs, while the [State] Constitution protects both beliefs and practices.“ [Additionally, according the Oregon Constitution; All… shall be secure in the Natural right… according to the dictates of their own consciences……

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Modern Culture

…[psilocybe mushroom] philosophy

…psilocybin… center of an enormously influential movement that was (and continues to be) both a religion and a… political philosophy. …it was no coincidence that dominant political forces opposed such a substance… anonymously published a guide to growing psychoactive psilocybin mushrooms… the source of humanity’s first religious ideas and that entheogens would lead to “the…

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Spirituality

Psychedelic spirituality: inside a growing… religious movement

On this Sunday, Pastor… held up two potted plants that can be brewed into that bitter mind-altering beverage. “They are guiding us,” he preached, “into something ineffable…” …it was there that I was greeted… holding two giant clear plastic bags stuffed full of magic mushrooms. Some of these churches and gatherings are cautiously coming out…

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Politics

New Approach PAC IP-59 & Decriminalize Nature IP-61

Two proposed initiatives. Under IP-59 [establishing regulated access by adults twenty-one years of age and older to natural medicine that show promise in improving well-being, life satisfaction, and overall health and the department shall have the authority to adopt rules that differentiate between natural medicines and that regulate each natural medicine differently… Local government impact.…

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Anthropology

Oklahoma… psilocybin decriminalization bill

The state’s… House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly, 62-30, to pass House Bill 3414… it is also possible that the Senate could make changes to the bill, which would then require the House to vote on it again. …bill would decriminalize the possession of up to one and a half ounces of psilocybin… those found in possession…

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