Politics

The medicalized psychedelic narrative is out of control

…remember when tripping on mushrooms in the forest and taking MDMA on a dance floor at an underground rave was fun? Not on the corporate psychedelia watch. Psychedelics are tools of the medical establishment now, cogs in a closed loop economy dictated by pharmaceutical conglomerates and their armies of gatekeepers. Tripping is now serious business……

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Politics

Meet shroom mom, LA’s most fabulous… dealer

Around the time I met Shroom Mom, I was having a druggie fling with a fentanyl dealer… while fentanyl …boy and mushroom mama are both, technically, drug dealers, they occupy opposite ends of the spectrum: …boy pulsed with the carnivorous bloodlust of the streets, and I watched him callously cut cocaine with chemical fillers (not…

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Politics

Biden administration moves to loosen weed restrictions

The DEA confirmed… that it received the letter… the DEA is not required to follow Department of Health and Human Services recommendation. The Biden administration’s Department of Health and Human Services is recommending that the Drug Enforcement Administration significantly loosen federal restrictions on marijuana but stopped short of advising that it should be entirely removed…

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Biography/Memoir

‘We’re in the shakeout stage’: The psychedelics boom in healthcare has lost its buzz as some companies struggle to make payroll

Psychedelics companies aren’t living up to the hype, and are starting to consolidate as a flood of money into companies seeking to win regulatory approval of drugs like LSD, psilocybin and ayahuasca dries up… the disconnect between… federal… lobbying visions and reality in psychedelics has once-high-flying companies now on the verge of failing to make…

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Politics

‘Welcome to the psychedelic ’20s!’

The payoff for those decades of work are coming to fruition. Oregon and Colorado have decriminalized the recreational use of plant-based psychedelics. Original Article (Reason):Rick Doblin: ‘Welcome to the psychedelic 20s!’Artwork Fair Use: Jon Mortin

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