Modern Culture

Psychedelics group wants to protect Portland… users of… plant- or mushroom-based psychedelics… from cops

October 4, 2024By

Portland advocates for psychedelic drug use are hoping to put an initiative on the city’s 2026 ballot that would protect people who use what they call non-toxic and non-addictive plant- or mushroom-based psychedelic drugs from arrest. Under the proposed initiative, non-toxic and non-addictive psychedelics would be designated police officers’ “lowest priority for enforcement,” according to the initiative…

READ MORE
Modern Culture

A glimpse into Colorado’s emerging… psychedelics scene

October 4, 2024By

…the first state in America where residents can legally grow and share psilocybin mushrooms… cultivation has made botanical, easily identifiable psychedelics widely available. There is little difference in effort between growing a small personal supply and a larger amount for friends… a gifting exchange group in the city simply because many cultivators had far more…

READ MORE
Politics

Legalization of psychedelic drugs is on the ballot in Massachusetts

October 4, 2024By

[In Massachusetts]… a yes vote would trigger the state’s commission and advisory board to establish a regulatory framework for the psychedelics… residents may also grow psychedelics in a 12-foot-by-12-foot space, as long as it’s secured from anyone under 21… Oregon was the first state to legalize psilocybin for adult use, but with a very tight…

READ MORE
Biography/Memoir

DEA bids to exclude expert witnesses from psychedelics-ban hearing

October 4, 2024By

The DEA wants to place DOI and DOC, which are currently unscheduled, in Schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act – the most restricted category, for drugs deemed to have “High abuse potential with no accepted medical use.” The agency revived these attempts in December 2023. …the DEA’s filing includes a particularly lengthy section dedicated to discrediting…

READ MORE
Biography/Memoir

…the… psychedelic mushroom…

October 3, 2024By

Securities Exchange Commision (SEC) filings reveal that… atai Life Sciences disposed of around 2.7 million Compass Pathways shares for gross proceeds of just over $16 million. That represents around a third of atai’s stake in Compass. Meanwhile, Colorado is reaching its second year of decriminalizing [and legalizing] mushrooms and DMT for personal use and growth… “This 70-year effort to criminalize…

READ MORE
Politics

…women are being prosecuted for using marijuana… while pregnant following Roe’s repeal…

October 2, 2024By

Wendy Bach, principal investigator of the report and professor at the University of Tennessee law school… “We learned that prosecutions in the year after Dobbs represent a high-water mark in pregnancy criminalization, following from increased suspicion and surveillance of pregnant people,” she said. “It is significant that… in thirty-one of those eighty-six cases, the only…

READ MORE
Medicine/Healing

Psilocybin shows greater long-term benefits over SSRI for depression

September 27, 2024By

A direct comparison between the experimental psychedelic drug psilocybin and a standard SSRI antidepressant shows similar improvement of depressive symptoms, but that psilocybin offers additional longer-term benefits… Lead researcher Mr. Tommaso Barba (Ph.D. candidate from Imperial College, London) said, “This is the first work to compare the long-term effects of these two drugs in the…

READ MORE