Oregon is moving backward. Gov. Tina Kotek will soon sign a bill passed in the state legislature, House Bill 4002, that will recriminalize drugs without offering any real solutions to the public suffering the war on drugs continues to perpetuate. The reversal upholds the same lie that’s been sold to United States public for decades — that the…
It’s hard to express to non-drug policy geeks just how huge this is. For the first time in 50+ years a majority vote is accepted at the UN CND [United Nations Commission on Narcotic Drugs]. Russia and China couldn’t block it! Incredible. …USA resolution on overdose prevention that includes mention of …harmreduction wins 38 votes…
Seizures of psilocybin mushrooms (“magic mushrooms”) by law enforcement rose in Oregon and across the country from 2017 to 2022, according to a study by the National Institute on Drug Abuse. Why it matters: While a regulated market for psychedelic fungi exists in Oregon, police are still targeting the black market of recreational users. By the…
“Our coalition opposes creating a model based on Oregon,” says James Davis, Bay Staters executive director and co-founder. “It is still highly illegal to possess and grow psychedelics outside of regulated use in Oregon, and Measure 109 did nothing to change that.” “Measure 109 established a highly regulated market for psilocybin services – too regulated,…
Oregon’s political leaders themselves played central roles in failing to deliver on the potential for law enforcement to connect people with lifesaving services under the new measure, documents and interviews with a wide array of people involved in the system indicate. The Legislature, the court system and the bureaucracy under two governors ignored or rejected…
Events allowing the display and sharing of psilocybin mushrooms have already taken place on a smaller scale in Denver… slated for June 9 [2024]; Denver Shroom Fest… the city’s “first psychedelic mushrooms festival”… “This is more so a cultural celebration. It’s really like a festival, so we’re going to have live music, food trucks, vendors,…
At first, the goal was to use psychedelics to heal veterans (as indicated by MAPS’s public relations between 2005 and 2012). Then, in 2012, Doblin shifted to suggesting that psychedelics might be used to heal traumatized active-duty soldiers. Now, MAPS’s founder calls for military recruits to be dosed upon enlistment. This latest turn was announced…
Sean McAllister of McAllister Law Office [in the State of Colorado]; Executive Officer of the Denver Psilocybin Mushroom Policy Review Panel and Decriminalize Denver legal advisor for Measure 301 in 2019 that removed criminal penalties for the possession and cultivation of psilocybin in the city… …the best way to stay out of trouble is to…
Grant Hartley, the Multnomah County director of Metropolitan Public Defenders, predicted the new citations [built into HB 4002] would overload the system. His office is already short-staffed, with public defenders averaging 100 cases apiece, he said. “We have a humanitarian crisis,” Hartley said. “It’s embarrassing to see people out on the street. But injecting thousands…
It would be one thing if arguments against the decriminalization of psychedelics were being made. But that’s not the case. Instead, the lumping together of psychedelics and opioids seems to have gone largely unnoticed, setting up personal use of psychedelics to become an unintended casualty of Oregon’s opioid crisis. By treating all drugs as an…
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