Psychology

…effort to address… Oregon…

Oregon no longer ranks as the top state in the nation when it comes to rate of substance use disorder and lack of access to treatment, according to the most recent national survey data… Insite [safe injection site] remains open after Supreme Court of Canada dismisses federal government appeal… in a unanimous ruling, the Supreme…

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Psychology

Psychedelics reopen the social reward learning critical period

Here we demonstrate in mice that the ability to reopen the social reward learning critical period is a shared property across psychedelic drugs. Notably, the time course of critical period reopening is proportional to the duration of acute subjective effects reported in humans. Furthermore, the ability to reinstate social reward learning in adulthood is paralleled…

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Psychology

Oregon now offers psilocybin…

“They’re very edible,” he said. “Almost like eating a nut.” …the new system is not considered medical… thinks he might take psilocybin again, to continue his personal growth… when psilocybin can be obtained for as little as $20 a dose… Original Article (Oregon Public Broadcasting & Filter Mag):Oregon now offers psilocybin therapy. Here’s what one…

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Psychology

Estrogen impacts the effects of psilocybin for women

We are left behind in mainstream medical system and so when you when we want to discuss these things… women have had a lot of difficulty in the mainstream medical system—and that’s not to say that I have a problem with the mainstream medical system—however, there is a history of women being gaslit at the…

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Psychology

Psychedelic users show greater psychological strengths and improved well-being, study finds

The paper titled “Psychedelics and Psychological Strengths” discusses findings from three studies conducted through online surveys from a total of 3,157 participants. The researchers used controls for demographic variables, subjects’ use of other psychoactive drugs, and their beliefs about the potential benefits of psychedelic substances. The findings revealed that classical psychedelic users have “greater psychological…

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Psychology

…cities… psychedelic mushrooms… advocates praise…

…a shroom tender… psilocybin is still astoundingly just like cannabis, a schedule one controlled substance… criminal penalties for people who are just trying to help themselves and heal themselves. There’s no reason to get law enforcement involved with any of this. Now, I can see both sides of the argument about the benefit of doing…

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Psychology

…you need to know about magic mushrooms

Like the endless mycelial networks that thread through our planet’s ecosystems, magic mushrooms are now thoroughly entangled in 21st century culture. So, as we step further into a future in which psilocybin gummies will most probably become a normal fixture on the shelves of health food stores… shrooms – defined by their main psychedelic compound, psilocybin –…

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Psychology

…change the world

Oregon leads a new era of psilocybin… …first encountered psilocybin like many people have: in her youth. Original Article (Bend Bulletin):Oregon’s first licensed psilocybin facilitators want to change the worldArtwork Fair Use: Public domain

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Politics

Lessons from industrialized food: the importance of home grow

Protecting the right to grow… psychedelic… at home is a health and economic justice issue… convenience and commerce at the expense of public health is nothing new… I saw growing my own as a way to end my reliance on this prohibition-driven headache… has made me less susceptible to the commercialization… it grounds me and…

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