According to Dominique Mendiola… will emphasize practices to avoid arrests, hospitalization and involuntary mental health commitments, but she recognizes that behavioral experiences are intended with some psychedelics. Colorado followed Oregon, becoming the second state to legalize… psilocybin… but Oregon didn’t decriminalize the personal cultivation and possession of psilocybin, DMT, mescaline and ibogaine. Mendiola, who also…
Existing commercial interests in the medical psychedelics sphere may unfortunately be ambivalent about, or even actively obstruct wider reform efforts where they perceive it as undermining progress towards medical or therapeutic commercialisation… [therefore] exploring options for non-commercial market models can also be an important component of this strategy. This should certainly include allowing home cultivation,…
The psychedelic gold rush raises a range of challenging questions around the commercialisation and availability of psychedelics and the risk of corporate capture… [therefore]… …a four-tiered regulation model “that attempts to manage the variety of psychedelic preparations and the different ways in which they are used”. These include: 1) Private use, home cultivation, foraging and not-for-profit…
…multiple sources say the Massachusetts psychedelic ballot campaign run by New Approach PAC may have made technical errors while collecting signatures for its 2024 ballot initiative. If the rumors are true, it is unclear what kind of error created the urgent need to collect signatures anew. The conspiratorially-minded might wonder whether these rumors could serve…
DEA wants to nearly double the amount of psilocybin, psilocyn and delta-9 THC that’s manufactured compared to initial levels set for this year, while quintupling how much ibogaine is produced. It also wants 23 times as much of “other tetrahydrocannabinol,” raising the quota from 15,000 grams to 350,000 grams for 2023. For psilocybin, the proposed…
The bill, which passed the California Assembly and Senate was introduced by California state Senator Scott Wiener and amended in various committees, would have decriminalized natural psychedelics, such as psilocybin mushrooms and ayahuasca tea, allowing adults of age 21 or older to grow, possess and use them without fear of prosecution. Senate Bill 58 also…
Psilocybin has become a household name in the last decade. It’s been decriminalized in two states – Colorado (five natural psychedelic compounds: DMT, ibogaine, mescaline, psilocybin and psilocin) and Oregon… [psilocybin which converts to] psilocin [in the body] not only penetrates the cell membrane and binds to these very specific receptors, it binds stronger than…
The Portland, Maine’s, Health and Human Services and Public Safety Committee… passed the resolution on a 3–0 vote… amended the bill to cover home cultivation of natural entheogens for personal use and sharing without compensation. Criminal enforcement would not change for selling, dispensing, possessing on school grounds or driving under the influence of the substances.…
Juvenile mice find social experiences more rewarding than do adults. The discovery [is] that psychedelics can re-engage the social neural circuits for varying durations in adults… Gül Dölen, M.D., Ph.D., associate professor of neuroscience at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.; …ibogaine, ketamine, LSD, MDMA, and psilocybin, can reopen the “critical periods” of brain…
University of Michigan and Columbia University; scientists report that the use of non-LSD hallucinogens in the United States nearly doubled between 2018 and 2021 among young adults under the age of 30. In 2018, the prevalence of young adults who used hallucinogens other than LSD over the prior year was 3.4 percent. By 2021, that…
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