As a member of the House Veterans Affairs and Armed Services committees, Deluzio is in support of bipartisan bills to loosen the prohibitions on research and potentially pave the way for the VA to begin administering the drugs. But for now, veterans are on their own. “Just because a government agency says it’s illegal, that…
…calls to permit their use in psychotherapy have been growing in Ukraine following Russia’s full-scale invasion. Experts in Ukraine are appealing to parliament to facilitate the therapeutic use of these substances. Ksenia Voznitsyna, director of the Ukrainian Health Ministry’s Center for Veterans’ Mental Health and Rehabilitation, is a leading voice in the campaign. “We are…
DEA wants to nearly double the amount of psilocybin, psilocyn and delta-9 THC that’s manufactured compared to initial levels set for this year, while quintupling how much ibogaine is produced. It also wants 23 times as much of “other tetrahydrocannabinol,” raising the quota from 15,000 grams to 350,000 grams for 2023. For psilocybin, the proposed…
There’s a lot of… profiteering out there, and… it’s hard not to see the desires to turn psychedelics into another pharmaceutical commodity… …unlike most other chemists, Sasha wasn’t driven by profit. He seems to have been motivated by sheer enthusiasm for drugs and their potential promise for unlocking hidden realms of consciousness and secrets of…
The bust came as two states and several cities in the U.S. have decriminalized psychedelic mushrooms and their active ingredient, psilocybin… Authorities said they received a tip that the resident of the Burlington home was operating a psilocybin mushroom growing operation. Federal, state and local law enforcement officials went to the property Thursday morning and…
…from the research labs to the streets, they became part of the counterculture… Turn on, tune in and drop out… they fueled the summer of love and protest against the war in Vietnam… thousands of demonstrators opposed to the Vietnam War; Richard Nixon saw the anti-war movements as political threats, so he fought back with…
For the past two years, the Rockhouse has also had another distinction: Its gift shop will openly, legally sell you a magic mushroom chocolate bar. In June 2021, when it first added them to its inventory, it became one of the first stores that is not a drug dispensary to openly and officially sell a…
The drugs are distributed as part of DULF’s [Drug User’s Liberation Front] compassion club, which enrolls people who use drugs as members and then distributes up to 14 grams of a substance to them per week, according to the group’s website… police seized what is believed to be heroin, methamphetamine, and cocaine… Previously the group has…
Mason Marks, the senior fellow and lead of the Project on Psychedelics Law and Regulation at Harvard Law School’s Petrie-Flom Center, told… in an interview… that psilocybin is clearly growing in popularity as various states and cities promote new laws to decriminalize and legalize the drug. “The pieces of legislation are growing, they’re being replicated…
During interactions with investigators [on November 2, 2023], Weston claimed that the type of mushrooms he was growing were not illegal… Weston Soule, 21, was charged with possession with intent to sell narcotics and operating of a drug factory. When asked about activities inside of the main residence, Weston did not consent to a search…
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