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

March 17, 2023By

(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…

March 16, 2023By

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…

March 14, 2023By

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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Patented…

March 13, 2023By

Paul Stamets… US patent… covers combinations of psilocybin and lion’s mane extract, alone and with niacin, has been issued… is now the subject of a drug development push by Stamets’… Paul Stamets will be issued a… patent exploring the medicinal properties of psilocybin, a major psychoactive component of the Psilocybe mushrooms that now bear his…

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Oregon… setback… bankruptcy

March 13, 2023By

The graduation ceremony for 35 students was being held Friday [3/10/23]…Tom Eckert… InnerTrek… Rachel Aidan… Synthesis… bankruptcy… …a dosing session at a licensed center… a couch or mats for clients to sit or lie on, an eye mask, comfort items like a blanket and stuffed animals, a sketch pad, pencils and a bucket for vomiting… typically…

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…psilocybin mushroom grow house…

March 13, 2023By

…narcotics detectives with the Fresno County Sheriff’s Office, Special Investigations Task Force (SITF) seized… …500 plastic tubs containing psilocybin mushrooms in the early developmental stages… the tubs had the potential of producing close to 33,000 grams in a year. Detectives also uncovered 3,600 grams of processed mushrooms… Original Article (KMPH)Nearly 500 tubs of “magic mushrooms”…

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‘Father of Cannabis Science’ Raphael Mechoulam…

March 10, 2023By

Raphael Mechoulam, the first person to synthesize THC, earning him the moniker the “Father of Cannabis Science,” has died at 92. THC, CBD, and CBG are basically household names today… …while working as a chemist in the early 1960s at the Weizmann Institute, Mechoulam got some weed from the Israeli police with his goal already…

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