Shaman Shu says ayahuasca told him to write Proposal E during his first experience… “I wrote the actual legislation based upon what the ancestors told me to do,” he says. “I was sitting in Costa Rica and I was like, ‘What? You want me to do, what?’ I never expected that… I hired a lawyer,…
Years after the state legalized the recreational use of cannabis, state Sen. Jeff Irwin (D-Ann Arbor, Michigan) said he wants to expand the conversation around certain substances and what role they should play in society. “Should people go to jail for this? Should we spend money for these crimes? My answer is no,” he said.…
On a balmy… morning, a massive flush of psilocybe mushrooms popped up in a Portland, Oregon city park. This particularly gregarious bloom of Psilocybe ovoideocystidiata, or “ovoids,” stretched over a large mulched area, attracting casual pickers who filled their tote bags to the brim… Fungal evolution experts like Slot stress that many hypotheses regarding psilocybin’s…
There is an ad in Denver’s local alternative weekly for a psilocybin mushroom dispensary, which opened recently. It’s the first mushroom dispensary in Colorado, to my knowledge. On the inside, the shop looks a lot like a cannabis dispensary, although more bare-bones. It has a table, some chairs, some mycelium growing in tubs on a…
…cultivates psilocybin-containing mushroom mycelium in microbrewer bioreactor vats, which they call “entheobrewers.” Mycelium contains all the alkaloids of the fruiting bodies (what are typically referred to as mushrooms). …focused on bioreactor creation of psychedelics… new psilocybin production process is expected by year’s end to yield a cost per gram that is less than $100… we…
Chief Petitioners, Nate Sickler, Resident of Medford, Oregon, Jerrod Murray, Resident of Portland, Oregon, Juanita Swartwood, Resident of Portland, Oregon… [supporting that manufacturing (growing) more than 12 grams of psilocybin containing mushrooms (Class A Felony) will be punished more harshly than manufacturing methamphetamine (Class B Felony)]… Class A Felonies in Oregon… are punishable by up…
A group in Oregon wants to make drug possession a crime again, having unveiled two versions of a would-be ballot initiative that would undo key provisions of Measure 110, the 2020 voter-approved measure that decriminalized simple possession of all drugs… filed ballot initiatives to prohibit hard drug use in public places and has $700,000 lined…
The study, which represents the world’s largest longitudinal dataset on naturalistic psilocybin use to date, is published in Frontiers in Psychiatry and indicates broad therapeutic potential of a single dose of psilocybin to produce lasting improvements in mental health and wellbeing… data was collected from surveying 8,006 participants over a two year period… self-reported information on the…
“We legalized cannabis and didn’t give anybody a place to actually smoke,” said former Boston, MA, City Councilor Tito Jackson… “Our objective would be to prepare and have a chef-guided menu, just as many other parts of our society, to really normalize cannabis…” A place where adults 21 and up can smoke, eat an edible…
Steve Inskeep & Rob Smith: After being… [the first state]… to legalize marijuana… [for home grow…] Voter’s approved [Colorado] Proposition 122. It allows Coloradans to grow and use plants and fungi containing psychedelic substances like psilocybin… “122 gave us the opportunity to use our voice and to share the healing power of mushrooms with others,”…
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