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.…
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…
Approximately five Oregonians die every week from an opioid overdose. Currently, funds from the settlements will be divided amongst local governments and the state, with the latter receiving a smaller portion at 45%. This wasn’t always the case. The state originally intended to keep 85% to have more centralized control, but Lane and other counties…
Two counties in southern Oregon have declared states of emergency related to cannabis… Law enforcement agencies found a slew of problems… including workers living in squalid conditions… Original Article (OPB):Hemp license moratoriums coming to 2 Oregon countiesArtwork Fair Use: Gary Halvorson
The chairman of the volunteer board writing Oregon’s rules for psilocybin has resigned. The departure comes after board members were asked to disclose any conflicts of interest… other board members had called for… resign… the state said it has encouraged the psilocybin advisory group to work with the Oregon Government Ethics Commission. Original Article (OPB):Head of Oregon’s…
On Thursday [3/10/2022], speakers are likely to make “unbelievably searing, difficult” statements, Marshall Huebner, an attorney for Purdue, said in a related hearing the day before. The court-appointed mediator requested that no member of the Sackler family be allowed to respond to comments made by victims during the hearing. It’s slated to begin at 10…
A group of synthetic opioids called nitazenes, even more powerful than fentanyl in some of its forms, has begun to emerge… Forensic experts have found that the syringes used in some overdoses contain a potent synthetic opioid class – nitazenes – which is up to 20 times more powerful than fentanyl – a drug that…
Oregon is the first state to allow the use of magic mushrooms, which have been used recreationally since the 60s in the United States. The legalization of psilocybin in Oregon is equivalent to cannabis, which was legalized for medical use in 1998 and for recreational use in [2014]. Magic mushrooms grow in the Northwest and…
…community came out in force Tuesday [3/8/2022] to testify against a bill that would ban the gifting of the product. The proposal comes nearly a year after legalization… The General Law Committee debated a proposed bill that would prevent residents from gifting… or face up to a year in prison and $10,000 fine… “Enacting a…
…the last thing we did was to play around with the genetic code of the Psilocybe genes a little bit so that we could divert production towards some of the other intermediates and derivatives of the pathway… …we had to dig a little bit into the genome of Psilocybe cubensis to find the missing genes. We then introduced them…
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