Biography/Memoir

The Black mothers finding freedom in mushrooms: ‘They give us our power back‘

Sunumi Jackson, an entheogen educator, wants to change the thinking: “Mushrooms have no race,” she said. On a typical day, she said, she consumes .1 to .2 grams of mushrooms. She primarily uses mushrooms to decrease symptoms of depression. Jackson believes that microdosing should be used to address intergenerational trauma… like many women in the… microdosing community,…

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Science

Psilocybin… promise for treating alcohol addiction…

Alcohol misuse kills around 95,000 people in the U.S. every year, according to the Centers for Disease Control, shortening lives by an average 26 years. “One of the reasons is to prevent it from being grabbed by other people who might use it to get a monopoly and make it harder for people to receive this treatment,”…

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Biography/Memoir

Many Oregonians will have to vote again on psilocybin

Sam Chapman said if… psilocybin services turns out to be “just a bunch of wealthy white people from outside the state of Oregon, this program will have been a failure.” As interest in psilocybin and other hallucinogens grows, with best-selling books and television documentaries, Oregon’s experiment in providing these services will be closely watched nationwide……

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Politics

…Oregon psilocybin centers face bans across the state…

Oregonians will also be able to apply for permits to grow the crop. …a flurry of local governments have taken steps to add measures on psilocybin bans to the November [2022] ballot… more than 40 cities and counties will likely have some kind of psilocybin ban before voters in the general election, with more expected…

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Spirituality

Magic mushrooms… all…

In the US, religious groups have secured the right to use psychedelic drugs, under the first amendment’s protection of religious freedom… how are people supposed to procure the psychedelic mushrooms, which are permissible to carry and consume? “He’s practicing in the lane of what seems like sincere religious belief to me,” says Danny Peterson, a…

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Politics

Oregon… psilocybin-fueled mushroom tourism boom?

“People are paying thousands of dollars and traveling across the world to do this, so I’m sure there’s going to be a tourist boom here,” Mehr says. Josh Lehner, an economist at the Oregon Office of Economic Analysis, says it’s hard to predict just how big this new slice of the tourism industry might get,…

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Politics

Making mushrooms…

“We do need to be vigilant,” Oregon Representative Earl Blumenauer, one of the biggest advocates for psychedelic policy reform in Congress… “Big companies are going to try and monopolize drug therapies with psilocybin and psychedelics, just like Big Pharma has attempted to patent everything in sight, and then spend more time and money being able…

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