Biography/Memoir

Denver psilocybin mushroom dispensary…

Darren Lyman, who’s currently moving full steam ahead on the buildout of his co-op… so far, he hasn’t heard any objections from the government. Although both Prop 122 and resulting laws allow for commercial psilocybin use to take place only under supervision, Lyman argues that his co-op isn’t trying to be a supervised use site.…

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Politics

Oregon leaders tasked to act on Measure 110, fentanyl went to Portugal in search of answers. Here’s what they found

The Oregon Health Justice Recovery Alliance released a statement shortly after the trip highlighting multiple lessons it said Oregon should take from Portugal: that decriminalization “remains the right thing to do” but that Measure 110 “didn’t go far enough in creating a comprehensive healthcare approach to addiction.” …lawmakers and others on the trip said they…

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Science

Psilocybin dosing tips

The conversation about how much to take is increasingly broad reaching. For a long time, Terence McKenna’s philosophy of 5 dried grams in silent darkness ruled the day. In the early 2000s, 3.5 grams was considered a dose. More recently, the advised introductory recreational dose was closer to 2.5 grams, and the museum dose around…

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Modern Culture

What we learned at Colorado’s first psychedelic cup

Presenters placed a gold medal around grower #9870’s neck as he beamed with pride for his potent shrooms. Psychedelic Cup… follows the model of the much-older Cannabis Cup, which was founded in 1988 by a High Times editor and gives out annual awards to cannabis growers for exceptional weed… today, the Cannabis Cup is a place for growers…

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Modern Culture

Inside Denver’s first Psychedelic Mushroom Cup

“The decriminalization part really gives us the chance to do a lot of cool stuff and not have to hide.” Big shafts and large caps were on full display during the awards show for the Psychedelic Cup, Colorado’s first open psilocybin mushroom-growing competition. The award show, held Thursday, November 2, at Denver’s Mile High Station,…

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Politics

Ukraine: ecstasy, mushrooms to fight war trauma

…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…

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Biography/Memoir

The search for…

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…

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