Colorado blazed trails when it legalized pot and now Denver could lead the way decriminalizing magic mushrooms. Decriminalization would mean reducing the penalty for possession of psilocybin mushrooms. Colorado decriminalized marijuana long before the drug became legal for medicinal or recreational use. Original Article (Denver Channel):After pot’s success, could Denver legalize mushrooms next?Artwork Fair…
Magic mushrooms are inching closer to the ballot in Denver, Colorado. Five advocates there, sponsoring a ballot initiative that would allow Denverites to vote this November on it, want to make mushrooms about as legal as cannabis and alcohol. And they’re succeeding. ”I’m like 99 percent sure it’s going to be on the ballot,” says…
How do we determine the optimal drug policy model given how our policy choices impact on such a wide range of outcomes? Simple answer: it’s complicated. So a group of experts have tried & figure out a rational new approach. *Drug policy evaluations – esp for illegal drugs – has historically been poor; emphasizing…
Customers could vaporize flower and concentrates, but no smoking would be allowed in the consumption areas in order to remain compliant with the Colorado Clean Indoor Air Act. If passed, the bill would create the first statewide licensing program for cannabis consumption. The City of Denver is currently the only municipality in Colorado that licenses…
Not that Denver NORML is arguing in favor of on-the-job marijuana use being allowed. Instead, Golden’s language prohibits firing or penalizing a worker unless he or she “used, possessed or was impaired by marijuana during the hours of employment.” “The first thing it would do is amend the unlawful prohibition of legal activities as a…
The most harmful effect of criminalizing marijuana may not be its restriction on medical uses, but its devastating cost to American society, which experienced a 500 percent increase in incarceration due to the war on drugs. In a review of 60 studies on medical marijuana, over 63 percent found positive effects for debilitating diseases—such as multiple sclerosis,…
*Rollsafe.org MDMA safety and harm reduction guidelines HERE Despite being early in the festival season the amount of MDMA – or E – tested by Know Your Stuff (in New Zealand) that was indeed MDMA was higher than ever before, the group’s director Wendy Allison said. Most pills ranged between 80 and 120 milligrams of…
Tyo said one of the roles of the Psychedelic Society isn’t necessarily promoting psychedelic… use, but if someone is using it urges people to do it in a safe and informed way. -Richard Tyo, a registered psychotherapist and member of the Kingston Psychedelic Society, In the hope of spreading awareness of the therapeutic benefits of…
Between Jeff Sessions and the Colorado Springs Gazette one could be forgiven for thinking that marijuana legalization is one of the most pernicious political decisions made in the modern era. Except it isn’t. And there is a pretty significant body of evidence that indicates as much. Marijuana opponents … are quick to identify all sorts…
“It has motivated me, personally, to study . . . the context in which drug use is more likely to happen,” Preciado said… Joseph explained that over the past five years, there has been a “low-key renaissance,” in which new studies have documented the use of psychedelics, such as psilocybin mushrooms and lysergic acid diethylamide…
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