The findings are an affirmation of the knowledge and use of plants as drugs among prehistoric Europeans, says ethnobotanist Giorgio Samorini, an expert on psychoactive substances… in a study published… in the journal Scientific Reports, researchers confirm that chemical signatures in the secreted samples of Es Càrritx hair provide the first direct evidence for hallucinogenic drug use in…
“So whenever I talk about psychedelics, I always include cannabis. My husband likes to call it the people’s psychedelic. It’s much more available. You can grow it yourself, although I would make a case that you can also grow mushrooms yourself, which maybe is — would also be the people’s psychedelic,” said Julie Holland, M.D.…
[Company claims products]… intended to deliver compounds across the blood-brain-barrier while bypassing the GI tract and liver, eliminating hallucinogenic effects… ability to precisely manufacture compounds different size, different shape, different delivery mechanisms… and immense advantage compared to any competitor in the field… “I enjoyed visiting Psycheceutical’s lab and meeting some of the team behind the…
Dave Miller [of Oregon Public Broadcast (OPB)]: “Do you feel that it is a professional necessity or benefit for you to do a supervised session yourself to better understand the world you are a part of regulating?“ Angela Allbee: “I think it’s important to remember that I work for the Oregon Health Authority, a State…
If you set aside the part about controlled substances, what we’re really talking about here is wide-open commercial space… Oregon became the first state in the U.S. to legalize the use of psilocybin in [adult-use] settings in 2020… …a few short years ago, the psychedelics industry was nothing more than some progressive investors supporting a…
Bay Staters for Natural Medicine, a grassroots community group with more than three thousand volunteers across New England, has worked with five city councils to pass measures decriminalizing psychedelic plants, including psilocybin mushrooms. Now the group has set its eyes on another goal: ensuring that psychedelic treatments are kept affordable for residents in the future.…
Like many critics, Wheeler is scapegoating Measure 110 for Portland’s problems, Hurst alleges. Repealing Measure 110, an option Mayor Ted Wheeler suggested at a town hall on Saturday [3/25/2023], would cost Multnomah County $58 million in drug treatment funds in the two years ending in December, says Tera Hurst, executive director of the Oregon Health Justice Recovery…
…things about our relationship with visionary drugs: it’s incalculably old, globally pervasive, and rich with meaning… in 2005, two peyote “buttons” (the crown of the peyote cactus) recovered from Shumla Cave in southwest Texas were radiocarbon dated to 3780-3660 BC. Later analysis by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry detected the naturally occurring psychedelic compound mescaline in both…
The Wine & Spirits Wholesalers of America (WSWA) said that “the current conflict between state and federal law is not only causing adverse consequences for consumers and non-consumers of cannabis but will also have long-term public health and safety costs that are too great to ignore.” …makes a point to endorse the idea of having…
…psychedelics, such as magic mushrooms, 2CB, LSD or MDMA. Juan-Carlos had been violently abused by his father and… realised that it had led him to become absent, jealous and insistent that Sophie was unfaithful. Their marriage had been on the brink, but now — following further psychedelic therapy sessions and structured psychiatric integration – it has…
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