Anthropology

Magic mushrooms… San Francisco…

Hodges said his church, which has nearly 92,000 members, is accepting new members only at its original location in Oakland. Dave Hodges, the founder of Zide Door… his organization is not relying on the Board of Supervisors’ 2022 resolution for legal protection and is instead relying on the federal government’s First Amendment right to freedom…

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Politics

California’s psilocybin legalization campaign OK’d to collect signatures

This year, organizers see an easier path to land on the ballot, citing a lower 546,651 signature threshold, and the absence of pandemic-era roadblocks that made signature gathering more difficult. Volunteers have until Jan. 10, 2024 to meet that goal. The initiative’s language would legalize the use of psilocybin mushrooms for medical, therapeutic, religious, spiritual, and recreational…

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Medicine/Healing

…psychedelic… its big promise?

In 2020, the Bill Richards Center for Healing became… non-­university site in the United States… receiv[ing] FDA clearance to conduct clinical trials with psilocybin… Psychedelics have drawn an unlikely crowd of evangelists, and many of the cultural battle lines that defined the War on Drugs are being erased. You can find supporters in both former…

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Biography/Memoir

Former OLCC director Steve Marks files tort claim notice alleging Kotek fired him at Rosa Cazares’ behest

“Marks was summarily forced out of office by Gov. Tina Kotek in early 2023 because Rosa Cazares, prominent owner of one of Oregon’s largest dispensary chains and an opponent of cannabis regulations, wanted him gone,” alleges the claim, submitted by Marks’ attorney, Bill Gary of the Harrang Long firm. “Cazares placed herself in close orbit…

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Modern Culture

…magic mushroom [edibles]

Featured in High Times… potential of psilocybin mushrooms while reaping the health benefits of CBD… cultivator, supplier and exporter of… psilocybin products and biomass… in the gift shops… packaging… alongside tanning oils and sun hats. Think: gluten-free, direct trade and locally-farmed dark chocolate bars… organic psilocybin mushrooms, prioritizing purity and potency… more enjoyable and palatable……

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Biography/Memoir

…psilocybin experience in…

Nearly three years after a majority of Oregon voters said yes to [adult-use] of psilocybin [under Measure 109 (originally broad mushroom decriminalization under IP-12 before signature gathering began anew under IP-34) with and opt-out of data collection developed under HB 303 now available for privacy purposes and the additional restriction to psilocybin cubensis species only] …facilitators…

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Politics

Cannabis trade association files motion to halt [Oregon’s]… aspergillus testing

“We don’t have any research or data to cite that show people have fallen ill from inhaling Aspergillus through cannabis products,” [said] Oregon Health Authority spokesman Jonathan Modie. The Oregon Health Authority began requiring March 1, 2023 that cannabis farmers and producers test their products for aspergillus, a fungus that thrives around organic matter… if…

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Politics

Lane County [Oregon] Sheriff’s deputies serve warrant… make arrest…

More than 4,000 pounds of marijuana and… …700 large grow bags of psilocybin mushrooms also were discovered… on a property in unincorporated Lane County [Oregon] [7/25/2023]. [On June 8, 2023, court documents show, police busted a psilocybin grow house and major interstate mushroom-and-weed distribution operation in a 5,000-square-foot mansion bordering a Northeast Portland country club.…

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Biography/Memoir

Satya Inc… partnership with Myco-Method…

Andreas Met CEO and Co-Founder… [Satya, Inc.]… close collaboration with Myco-Method… “We are excited to collaborate with Satya for our residency and practicum components, as well as support their establishment of a safe, ethical, and socially responsible environment for transformation” said Shasta Winn, Program Director at Myco-Method… The Higher Education Coordinating Commission issued a cease-and-desist…

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