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Psychedelic mushroom dispensaries… continue to operate despite legal challenges

Comparisons are drawn between the struggle for… magic mushrooms and the fight for cannabis. Eugene Oscapella, a criminology professor and lawyer, explains that the police have limited resources and face competing priorities. “We have stock nearby for emergencies,” said owner Edgars Gorbans, “After the raid, after one hour, the store was fully stocked up and…

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…mushroom gummies are flooding… dispensaries anyway

“In California enforcement is not something happening when it comes to psilocybin products,” the founder of psilocybin gummy brand Cubiq tells Los Angeles magazine under the pseudonym “Maria Sabina”… “There are brands moving psilocybin all over the world,” Sabina says. “…the underground market has been thriving for many years with great demand.” According to Sabina, branded psychedelic products began…

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…using magic mushrooms…

Mason Marks, the senior fellow and lead of the Project on Psychedelics Law and Regulation at Harvard Law School’s Petrie-Flom Center, told… in an interview… that psilocybin is clearly growing in popularity as various states and cities promote new laws to decriminalize and legalize the drug. “The pieces of legislation are growing, they’re being replicated…

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Federal appeals court rules against DEA In psilocybin rescheduling lawsuit brought by doctor who wants to give psychedelic to cancer patients

A federal appeals court has ruled against the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) in a lawsuit over a Washington State doctor’s petition to reschedule psilocybin. The court said DEA failed to explain its reasoning when it denied the petition, and it ordered the agency to provide a more complete justification… “Given the inadequacy of the DEA’s denial…

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Federal court hears case challenging DEA decision to deny psilocybin rescheduling petition without consulting health officials

Matt Zorn, one of the attorneys representing Dr. Sunil Aggarwal, accused DEA at oral argument of wanting “to control the practice of medicine.” The current case, filed in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, stems from Aggarwal’s response to last year’s ruling. In February 2022, the doctor filed a formal petition with…

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Natural high: endogenous psychedelics in the gut and brain

Researchers have found endogenous psychedelic production in the human brain and gut, the latter of which occurs with the help of symbiotic gut microbes. The similarities between exogenous and endogenous psychedelics and the reasons humans synthesize psychoactive compounds are taking scientists on a mind-bending trip across millions of years of evolution. In doing so, they…

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MDMA therapy inches closer to approval

PTSD affects about 5 percent of the adult population of the United States each year… federal approval for MDMA-assisted therapy would also mean the drug would have to receive a less serious ranking for controlled substances by the D.E.A. and from states. MDMA-assisted therapy seems to be effective in reducing symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder, according…

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‘Magic Mushroom’… shows early promise in easing migraines

The idea of using psilocybin against migraines is not far-fetched… like other psychedelics, exerts its effects by stimulating certain brain receptors for the chemical serotonin. That makes it similar to many standard migraine medications, which also act on serotonin receptors (albeit differently). In the United States alone, about 39 million people suffer from migraines, according…

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…psychedelic… its big promise?

In 2020, the Bill Richards Center for Healing became… non-­university site in the United States… receiv[ing] FDA clearance to conduct clinical trials with psilocybin… Psychedelics have drawn an unlikely crowd of evangelists, and many of the cultural battle lines that defined the War on Drugs are being erased. You can find supporters in both former…

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