Biography/Memoir

Making the invisible visible: …psychiatry, midwifery, and psychedelics

 I draw on the records of the Maryland Psychiatric Research Center LSD Training Program Study and the papers of Grof to explore the “unexpected entanglements” between psychiatry, midwifery, and psychedelics. Grof observed “astounding parallels” between psychedelic experiences and the clinical stages of delivery, believing that the common denominator between the two was the trauma of…

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Coverage… Oregon psilocybin cubensis manufacturer license

Oregon Health Authority (OHA)… has issued… the state’s first psilocybin [cubensis] license… Satori Farms PDX LCC, a women owned business… received a manufacturer license… Original Article: March 21, 2023; EDELIC Center. March 22, 2023; EDELIC Center (9:32 AM PDT) & FOX KPTV News Channel 12 (9:34 AM PDT) & NBC KTVZ News Channel 21 (10:55…

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…psilocybin straight to your door

Chase started making mushroom gummies about two and a half years ago. Previously, he worked corporate jobs at Johnson & Johnson and L’Oréal… I, for one, was simply interested in the scalable dosing for chill long weekends and maybe a slight creativity boost – both of which the gummies provided, from the lowest dose to…

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An updated (living) list of North American psychedelic dispensaries

At Fungi Shop [925 Seymour Street, Vancouver, BC] Kaitie Degen offers sweet treats, gummies, chocolate bars, and more. Operating similarly to… other brick-and-mortar mushroom dispensaries, Zoomers [1181 Granville Street, Vancouver, BC] requests potential customers to apply for membership and self-diagnose with an ailment that psilocybin could offer help for before being allowed to shop there.  Zide Door…

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At the request of Oregon Higher Education Coordinating Commission… declaring an emergency

(HB 3560) [Proposal] relating to immunity for Oregon Higher Education Coordinating Commission; declaring an emergency. Prohibits person from suing Higher Education Coordinating Commission for commission’s performance, or failure to perform, any duty, function or power relating to psilocybin products following effective date of Ballot Measure 109 (2020). Declares emergency, effective on passage. Original Article (State…

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…Oregon psilocybin program… money…

Around a dozen Synthesis students, including at least one international student, filed consumer complaints with the Oregon Department of Justice this month. The Department of Justice said it is still reviewing those complaints… Retreat Guru (out of the town, Nelson, BC, in Canada, was able to make the transition from a typical rural lumber town…

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…the shadow of [Oregon] psychedelic…

The Oregon Health Authority used the Synthesis course as the template for its psychedelic… programme… at one point the Synthesis retreat facilitators tried to unionize, but instead they were shifted from long-term to short-term contracts. The first sign that things were going awry in Oregon was in early 2022; reported in Vice; that Tom Eckert –…

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