It is also possible to journey solo and without the support of a tripsitter… that said, I’ve had nearly all of my most transformational trips alone. What differentiates a psychedelic therapy style session from psychedelic therapy is that the therapy-style session does not inherently include any type of therapy before or after the trip itself……
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…the old arguments against psychedelics are obsolete, grounded as they were in a fundamental fear of the experience of altered consciousness… indeed, when local municipalities vote to “legalize” [ie, decriminalize, ie, home production, non-commercial grow, gather, gifting, etc.] mushrooms, as several Massachusetts cities (including my own hometown of Cambridge) did in early 2021, they are…
The data in the DEA report… showed that nearly 5,000 arrests for federal marijuana-related offenses were made by law enforcement officers in 2020. That figure is up… over 2019 when 4,718 arrests for federal marijuana crimes were made by agents. U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency shows that federal law enforcement agents and their state and local…
An unknown number of such scientists — who according to the Nuremberg criteria should have been punished for crimes against humanity after 1945 — received a new life in the United States in return for information. Whenever a scientist had a “blemished” past, as Kinzer observes, US officials rewrote his biography, systematically expunging “references to…
In a letter to [Patty] Hajdu and the Vancouver and British Columbia working groups on decriminalization, a coalition of 15 organizations said the current proposal must be scrapped immediately as it risks reproducing the harms of prohibition. The coalition is asking the city to raise the proposed drug thresholds from a three-day supply and demanded the Vancouver Police Department take a…
…drugs have been used frequently by politicians as a distraction from more important issues to society, such as education, housing, and health conditions …the use of psychedelics for awakening greater levels of consciousness is not exclusive to indigenous peoples of the Americas, as the ancient Greeks, and… also the early Christians, used it for similar…
…impulse [discernment, intelligence, calling, etc.] to take a psychedelic for a spiritual reason is often overlooked as a reason to lift prohibition for psychedelic substances. …we’ve already begun to see two main routes to ending psychedelic prohibition: medicalization and decriminalization. But what this binary paradigm of medicalization versus decriminalization conceals is a third way of using…
It’s time to destroy the stigma surrounding psychedelics and educate ourselves on their effects. Just like any drug that is used irresponsibly, psychedelics still pose a risk to users, but when used safely, they are undeserving of the false, overexaggerated effects people ascribe to them. Thankfully, psychedelics are gradually breaking out of the taboo. Last…
The pardons will eliminate convictions for marijuana possession from criminal records from 1990 through 2020 but do not affect pending cases, said a news release. A pardon also does not cancel fines, fees or other costs linked to a marijuana conviction. “Reforming policy surrounding cannabis not only serves our state in producing hundreds of millions…
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