Medicine/Healing

Why magic mushroom dispensaries are popping up…

[“We need a civil rights movement for your consciousness,” said Paul Stamets in a TED2022 talk] …there are colourful new signs advertising magic mushrooms for sale inside… that’s been operating in the neighbourhood for years. Walking up a few stairs and through Mushroom Cuts‘ glass doors, you’ll see two salon chairs framed with neon lights…

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Science

…to define…

So what has science been able to offer since Shulgin? There have been at least two contributions to the field: The first is the structural determination of a psychedelic-bound 5-HT2A receptor at near-atomic resolution. These reconstructions have enabled detailed computer simulations to identify thousands of candidate compounds which can be tested to evaluate their kinetic…

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Science

Myriad new drugs…

…by definition, the compounds are new and poorly understood… most people who use drugs wouldn’t want to use most NPS anyway, if better-known and better-studied equivalents were legally and widely accessible. An effort out of the University of Copenhagen called HighResNPS collects mass spectrometry data on novel psychoactive substances (NPS) from around the world. Its list, which…

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Biography/Memoir

Psychedelic pharma’s big spin

…those who won’t tolerate paying ten or more times the market price for psychedelic materials… …recently we have… witnessed a stream of breathless announcements put out by psychedelic pharma companies who hope to cash in on the popularity of the burgeoning psychedelic healing category… even after the air hissed out of the psychedelic industry investment…

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Politics

Oregon officials’…

“It’s very offensive that in order to use what we have already been using, I have to go to somebody, pay ten to twenty thousand dollars [for training], and get permission,” said Elan Hagens, a member of the Oregon Psilocybin Advisory Board’s Health Equity Subcommittee. “We just need to let the process run,” said Jesse…

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Biography/Memoir

…company opens… licensed psychedelic mushroom growing facility

Psilocybin mushrooms, commonly called magic mushrooms… The $14-million venture consists of two 10,000-square-feet facilities with a combined total of 10 growing rooms that can produce approximately 2,000 kilograms of dried psilocybin mushrooms a month… Original Article (CBC):B.C. company opens Canada’s largest licensed psychedelic mushroom growing facilityArtwork Fair Use: Andybremner2012

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Anthropology

…free… ‘magic mushrooms’… to celebrate

…handed out free… psilocybin mushrooms… from… dispensary… “Where mushrooms are right now is where cannabis was in the mid-90s, here at the storefront If you come in and you’re an adult… you don’t need a medical designation,” said Larsen. Original Article (CBC):Dana Larsen gave out free ‘magic mushrooms’ in Vancouver to celebrate 4/20Artwork Fair Use:…

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Psychology

…rapidly improve…

Despite a number of clinical trials showing that psilocybin can rapidly treat depression, including for cancer-related anxiety and depression, little is known about how psilocybin actually works to relieve depression in the brain. Now two recent studies, published in The New England Journal of Medicine and Nature Medicine, have shed some light on this mysterious…

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