Dave: And you’re saying that there’s going to be more access to services like this, which actually does seem to be helpful in terms of meth addiction more from Measure 110 directly as a result? Tera: Contingency management, at the core, basically encourages and incentivizes folks to stay off of meth by offering sometimes financial…
Many mushroom users are treating them less as self-growth substances, and more as some fun… how has this happened and what does it all mean… I dived into the rise of the casual mushroom user to find out. James Morsh… tells me that, “Mushrooms have almost become a staple in the ‘sesh diet’ in certain social…
…interesting trend – trading mushrooms for booze. Lots of folks… don’t want that awful champagne hangover the next day, so they’re choosing to party with mushrooms… usually in the form of tasty chocolates. …for lots of folks it’s just a pleasurable experience… within limits. Beats getting drunk. The rub, of course, is that when someone…
In the wake of… decision to decriminalize naturally occurring psychedelics – including psilocybin, the active… compound found in shrooms – the options for obtaining the popular psychedelic have grown considerably. For example, acquiring a chocolate bar stuffed with dried psilocybe cubensis mushrooms was as simple as driving to one of the… retailers listed on the website……
It took 30 years for the chemical imbalance in the brain causing depression myth to be fully recognized as pseudoscience and dangerously misleading to consumers… When “effective,” [Danielle Schlosser, psychologist and senior vice president of Compass Pathways, and Thomas R. Insel, former director of the U.S. National Institute for Mental Health (NIMH) and consultant to…
Sunumi Jackson, an entheogen educator, wants to change the thinking: “Mushrooms have no race,” she said. On a typical day, she said, she consumes .1 to .2 grams of mushrooms. She primarily uses mushrooms to decrease symptoms of depression. Jackson believes that microdosing should be used to address intergenerational trauma… like many women in the… microdosing community,…
Alcohol misuse kills around 95,000 people in the U.S. every year, according to the Centers for Disease Control, shortening lives by an average 26 years. “One of the reasons is to prevent it from being grabbed by other people who might use it to get a monopoly and make it harder for people to receive this treatment,”…
Sam Chapman said if… psilocybin services turns out to be “just a bunch of wealthy white people from outside the state of Oregon, this program will have been a failure.” As interest in psilocybin and other hallucinogens grows, with best-selling books and television documentaries, Oregon’s experiment in providing these services will be closely watched nationwide……
Oregonians will also be able to apply for permits to grow the crop. …a flurry of local governments have taken steps to add measures on psilocybin bans to the November [2022] ballot… more than 40 cities and counties will likely have some kind of psilocybin ban before voters in the general election, with more expected…
In 2021, 8% of young adults said they have used a hallucinogen in the past year, the highest proportion since the survey began in 1988…. included LSD… shrooms… MDMA… The amount of young adults who said in 2021 that they used marijuana in the past year (43%), the past month (29%) or daily (11%) were…
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