Decriminalization of some hard drugs in British Columbia could help reduce stigma around psychedelic substances that have medicinal value, but have been caught up in the war on drugs, experts say. Zach Walsh, a professor of psychology at the University of British Columbia and a scientist with the B.C. Centre on Substance Use said, “So…
The blue meanies… are famous as the highly potent magic mushroom worldwide, especially in Burnaby… when compared with blue meanies (Panaeolus Cyanescens), P. Cubensis is less intense and has a low amount of psychedelics. Nowadays, the people and market of Burnaby are inclining more and more toward blue meanies as it is… potent and effective. Psilocybe…
When controlling for confounding variables, the results revealed that lifetime psychedelic use was not associated with lifetime cancer diagnosis nor hematologic cancer diagnosis. This was true for each of the three classifications of psychedelics: tryptamine (5-MeO-DIPT, AMT, DMT), lysergamide (LSD), and phenethylamine (2C-B, mescaline, MDMA, peyote, and San Pedro). “Beginning in the late 1960s, concerns were raised by laboratory experiments that…
There is a growing belief that whatever Canada decides will have a direct impact on the U.S. and this country’s psilocybin legalization efforts. The challenge also noted a precedent to change how the government could work with psilocybin by citing two landmark cannabis cases, where Canadian courts ruled that the absolute prohibition of cannabis by the…
Federal legalization… means a psychedelic substance has been removed from the Drug Enforcement Administration’s list of scheduled substances… the DEA can choose to de-schedule a substance at any time. …federal legalization doesn’t mean state-level legalization. Most states have a “trigger” system that follows DEA decisions, but others will decide for themselves whether to legalize after DEA…
Personal use means the personal ingestion or use of a natural medicine… adopting a public health and harm reduction approach to natural medicines by removing criminal penalties for personal use for adults twenty-one years of age and older… It would also sanction home cultivation and the sharing of medicines, but prohibit private sales… defines [sharing]…
…while Oregon voters in 2020 approved the supervised use of psychedelic mushrooms, the citizen initiative on the Colorado ballot in November [2022] goes further… would allow the personal use of psilocybin mushrooms and certain plant-based psychedelic substances by adults 21. As of June [2022], 15 cities and other local U.S. jurisdictions have decriminalized… psilocybin or…
In late January 2022, the Oregon state legislature filed a pre-session, psilocybin social equity bill to supplement the state’s groundbreaking Measure 109 program. That legislation is new Senate Bill 1580, sponsored by ten Democratic state lawmakers… a critical time, as Oregon’s new legal psilocybin program serves to transition psilocybin from an illegal substance into a…
Psychedelic therapies are receiving unprecedented financial and political support – and much of it comes from the right. Psychedelics can certainly increase openness – but this can be openness to Nazism, eco-fascism or UFO cults as well as to peace and love. Julius Evola, an Italian philosopher and fascist admired by both Hitler and Steve Bannon,…
…people have… found that compounds such as psilocybin can have psychotherapeutic benefits. However, that has not addressed their evolution in nature… …scientists from the University of Plymouth are conducting a first-of-its-kind study using advanced genetic methods and behavioral experiments to address previously untested hypotheses into the origin of psychedelic compounds in fungi. Original Article (Phsy.org):Scientists to…
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