Science

How long do shrooms stay in your system?

Effects of shrooms typically are felt within 10 to 40 minutes after ingestion and peak within 60 to 90 minutes. Effects of psilocybin last four to six hours after ingestion… …people use shrooms for various reasons, from experiencing heightened senses to improving mental health and well-being… shrooms’ lifetime in your system can vary based on…

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Medicine/Healing

Natural high: endogenous psychedelics in the gut and brain

Researchers have found endogenous psychedelic production in the human brain and gut, the latter of which occurs with the help of symbiotic gut microbes. The similarities between exogenous and endogenous psychedelics and the reasons humans synthesize psychoactive compounds are taking scientists on a mind-bending trip across millions of years of evolution. In doing so, they…

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Biography/Memoir

Oregon… legal psilocybin access amid high demand…

The clients can’t buy mushrooms to go, and they must stay at the service center… it’s too early to assess Oregon’s mushroom legalization… Oregon licensed grower Gared Hansen has come full circle from the 16 years he spent as a police officer in San Francisco. He once busted a psilocybin dealer in Golden Gate Park.…

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Medicine/Healing

MDMA therapy inches closer to approval

PTSD affects about 5 percent of the adult population of the United States each year… federal approval for MDMA-assisted therapy would also mean the drug would have to receive a less serious ranking for controlled substances by the D.E.A. and from states. MDMA-assisted therapy seems to be effective in reducing symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder, according…

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Science

Standards without labs: drug development in the psychedelic underground

How, then, might citizen scientists develop standards given the difficulty of obtaining these tools? Our discussion highlights how the pragmatic goals of knowledge production… consumed their medicine in the form of homegrown psilocybe mushrooms because they lacked access… of citizen science differ from the institutionalized scientists’ need to legitimate their findings with academic journals, peers,…

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Psychology

Psychedelics reopen the social reward learning critical period

Here we demonstrate in mice that the ability to reopen the social reward learning critical period is a shared property across psychedelic drugs. Notably, the time course of critical period reopening is proportional to the duration of acute subjective effects reported in humans. Furthermore, the ability to reinstate social reward learning in adulthood is paralleled…

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Politics

In defense of drug decriminalization – yes, in Oregon

The passage of Measure 110 was the culmination of years of efforts to show Oregonians and people across the country that the harms of incarceration can compound on, exacerbate, and – in some cases- exceed the harms caused by drug use itself. Oregon’s Health Authority has reported a 44 percent increase in people seeking treatment…

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Politics

Decriminalisation on the ground: Inside a drug consumption room in Lisbon

The Portuguese authorities have not stopped targeting organised crime. Law enforcement officials The Journal met in Lisbon confirmed that they are still seizing tonnes of drugs annually.  Psychologist Roberta Reis said many of the service users come from work in the evenings. “They come here and they can function normally,” she said. “We asked our service users…

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Biography/Memoir

The ethical drug-dealers of Vancouver

Eris Nyx, one of the store’s managers, looked on from the cash point. She runs the shop with Jeremy Kalicum, who was in the back office weighing and packaging cocaine, heroin and methamphetamine. “The fact that we’re not in jail is unbelievable,” said Eris. “I think about that every day.” Their shop was the culmination…

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