Politics

…groundbreaking…

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…

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Biography/Memoir

Is Massachusetts… in trouble?

…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…

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Politics

Dr. Bronner’s decries veto of landmark criminal justice and mental health reform legislation in California

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…

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Science

The magic of [natural symbiotic relationships with psilocybe] mushrooms [and other species]

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…

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Politics

Maine’s biggest city advances proposal to decriminalize psychedelic plants and fungi

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.…

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Science

Psychedelics reopen the social reward learning critical period

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…

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Politics

Coloradans… new… restrictive… psychedelic bill introduced…

…to organize lobbying efforts after a lawmaker introduced a bill regulating the fungus.  The proposed bill contains details about how the state would go about implementing the landmark Natural Medicine Health Act [NMHA]. The NMHA–also known as Prop 122–was passed in November 2022. It created a path for “healing centers,” where adults over 21 can take…

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Politics

Massachusetts Republican pushing psychedelic legalization bills

H 3589 – Concerning the legalization of certain natural plants and fungi would legalize the possession, cultivation, and personal use of plants and fungi that contain psilocybin, N,N-dimethyltryptamine (DMT), psilocin, ibogaine and mescaline for people 21 or older. It would explicitly prohibit the sale or transfer of the substances for financial gain and would limit…

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