“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…
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…
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.…
…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…
One cannot talk about María Sabína’s public memory without talking about the impact of colonization and patriarchy. In many cultures under colonized rule, syncretism is the practice of an attempted amalgamation of different religions. In Sabina’s case, she took the religion of the Spaniards, Catholicism, and used that to mask their Indigenous practices. Original Article…
Natasha Mason of Maastricht University in the Netherlands investigated how psilocybin – the active psychoactive ingredient in magic mushrooms – impacts creative cognition. In a double-blind, placebo-controlled study, the researchers found that a moderate dose of psilocybin improved spontaneous creative insights but decreased deliberate, task-specific creativity. They also found that the frequency of novel ideals…
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