Some see this as calling attention to an underlying tension between the all-drug decrim movement and the psychedelic decrim movement. Whereas once PSI 2020 [now Measure 109] was a full-scale psilocybin decriminalization initiative, chief petitioners… say its broad decrim component was removed, in part, so as to “complement” DATRA. Others in the psychedelic community have…
Not even two weeks after being raided by the Windsor police drug squad for allegedly selling cannabis illegally, the Compassion House was packing them in again this week, only now the pot was being given away. “This is what it’s all about at Compassion House,” owner Leo Lucier said Friday between truck runs of coats…
One challenge stands out: psilocybin seems to make people more liberal. Scientific reports associating psychedelic use and liberal values stretch back as far as 1971, and although these findings have been replicated more recently, a noncausal explanation is readily available. If psilocybin does change political values, the significance of this effect goes deeper than which…
Convictions impacted by the governor’s action range from those that took place in 1978 though 2012. “We are finally cleaning up some of the inequities of the past by pardoning 2,732 convictions for Coloradans who simply had an ounce of marijuana or less,” Polis said in a press release. “It’s ridiculous how being written up…
…campaign is seeing pushback… …dissent from certain psychedelics reform advocates who argue that the proposed legal therapeutic model for psilocybin would threaten equitable access to entheogens. Original Article (Marijuana Moment):Oregon psilocybin initiative gets boost from new TV ad but draws opposition from unlikely sourceArtwork Fair Use: Ytzen
[Entheogenic molecules of diverse variations] can be found in over 200 species of mushrooms, most of which grow wild… …originally began in the wild, growing naturally in forests, fields, and deserts. Original Article (The Week):8 drugs that exist in natureArtwork Fair Use: Olaf Tausch
“Listen, if you’re a mushroom, you live cheap.” In 1976, the McKenna brothers published a small book that provided “precise, no-fail instructions for growing and preserving the magic mushroom”. “If you don’t have a plan, you become part of someone else’s plan.” Original Article (Vice):Psilocybin, the mushroom, and Terence McKennaArtwork Fair Use: Amanita77
The movement to normalize and destigmatize psychedelics is not one of blind commodification. The psychedelics “industry” is possible because of an underground network of courageous people who have literally been risking their lives, their homes, their freedoms in order to make the truth about their healing potential available. The capitalist commodification of psychedelics disregards that…
City Council voted unanimously Sept. 21 2020 in favor of a resolution declaring… …that authorities won’t investigate and arrest anyone for planting, cultivating, buying, transporting, distributing, engaging in practices with or possessing “entheogenic plants” [ayahusaca, psilocybin mushrooms, iboga, etc], or plant compounds. Original Article (AP & MSN):City of Ann Arbor decriminalizes psychedelic plants and fungiArtwork…
The Ann Arbor policy change stands out as an example of how the messaging behind these local reforms can have an impact beyond the individual jurisdiction it directly applies to. “I support the decriminalization of entheogenic plants. I believe the War on Drugs has been an abject failure, and I see no reason to criminalize—or…
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