…founder and “protector” of The Divine Assembly, a Salt Lake City-based psilocybin church. Rather than a religious sect as typically envisioned, such as a building where worshippers gather for meetings and to partake of the sacrament, Urquhart sees the Divine Assembly as a revival-esque religious deconstruction, where members, in their own particular ways, lead in their…
After an online screening process, clients are set up with a nurse practitioner who determines dosing and takes a medical history… clients can proceed unguided after the second session, former clients said… many similar teleservices springing up, “They would say, ‘Thank you for sharing that with me.’ And that was what they said every time…
A leading theory on how LSD in particular affects your brain… is that it unlearns a life’s worth of learned behaviour. In other words, by opening up pathways in your brain that may have been closed for decades, it can make you reconsider or reexamine the things that have become habitual to yourself… attitudes to…
…church is having trouble getting its tax-exempt status because of the use of a psychedelic… in its ceremonies… …latest filing… states… not an organized church and does not operate exclusively for exempt purposes. What’s in question is whether or not it can use… in its ceremonies… filed a request for a religious exemption with the…
…can cannabis equipment be used for mushroom extraction? Psilocybin and cannabis are polar opposites – literally. Cannabinoid molecules are nonpolar, while psilocybin is… because cannabinoids are nonpolar molecules, typically extracted through CO2, hydrocarbon, butane or ethanol, that equipment wouldn’t suffice to extract a polar molecule, like psilocybin. There are some exceptions, however… natural extraction methods…
…since psychedelics have been proven to reduce inflammation, they could be helpful for older people’s aches and pains… potential for psychedelics helping older people with cognition, like slower word finding, that experience of knowing there’s a word for what you want to say but you need to recall it. “They just aren’t as sharp and then…
…persistent stereotypes inflate the public perception of drug use among unhoused people far beyond reality, and suggest that illicit drug use has only one trajectory: the downward spiral… there are practical reasons, too, for homeless people’s specific choices of drugs. Stimulants, for example, may help people to stay awake at night when it is most…
“We literally said on the drive to this house, ‘If this doesn’t work, we’re done,’” Ree said… a qualitative study published in January [2022] described how eight couples used MDMA privately to enhance their relationships… an emerging cognitive-relational model of “evenings with Molly” contrasts with existing models of use by suggesting the possibility of informed,…
An Oregon woman told authorities a man tricked her into believing she was undergoing federal agent training for about a year, according to court documents. The man… in a criminal complaint filed last week [Feb. 2022] in U.S. District Court, was charged with impersonating a federal agent after police in Portland contacted the Drug Enforcement…
…had been selling the files for just $50, according to a search warrant and criminal charges filed in the trafficking investigation. Some government “paperwork” on a drug trafficking investigation in West Virginia was being leaked, including confidential information previously provided by the witness… Original Article (Forbes):Secret DEA files sell for just $5 on facebook – here’s how…
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