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You can buy magic mushroom candy bars over the counter…

In the wake of… decision to decriminalize naturally occurring psychedelics – including psilocybin, the active… compound found in shrooms – the options for obtaining the popular psychedelic have grown considerably.  For example, acquiring a chocolate bar stuffed with dried psilocybe cubensis mushrooms was as simple as driving to one of the… retailers listed on the website……

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Replacing prozac with…

It took 30 years for the chemical imbalance in the brain causing depression myth to be fully recognized as pseudoscience and dangerously misleading to consumers… When “effective,” [Danielle Schlosser, psychologist and senior vice president of Compass Pathways, and Thomas R. Insel, former director of the U.S. National Institute for Mental Health (NIMH) and consultant to…

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The Black mothers finding freedom in mushrooms: ‘They give us our power back‘

Sunumi Jackson, an entheogen educator, wants to change the thinking: “Mushrooms have no race,” she said. On a typical day, she said, she consumes .1 to .2 grams of mushrooms. She primarily uses mushrooms to decrease symptoms of depression. Jackson believes that microdosing should be used to address intergenerational trauma… like many women in the… microdosing community,…

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Many Oregonians will have to vote again on psilocybin

Sam Chapman said if… psilocybin services turns out to be “just a bunch of wealthy white people from outside the state of Oregon, this program will have been a failure.” As interest in psilocybin and other hallucinogens grows, with best-selling books and television documentaries, Oregon’s experiment in providing these services will be closely watched nationwide……

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Jackson County, Oregon

August 5th, 2022: Jackson County, Oregon: Early morning warrant was served in Jackson County, Oregon and uncovered… processed psilocybin mushrooms. Police say they found… about… five pounds of psilocybin mushrooms. [The Jackson County Board of Commissioners already decided to put psilocybin on the November 2022 ballot. That vote will apply to unincorporated parts of the…

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Jackson County, Oregon [Medford & Ashland]

August 4th, 2022: Jackson County, Oregon: The Medford City Council voted unanimously not to put a psilocybin ban on the November ballot. Medford joins Ashland as the second city in Jackson County to ensure the drug will be legalized. The measure allows for manufacturing and therapeutic use of the drug. The Jackson County Board of…

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…mind on…

Dave Miller: “Yeah, that’s what I’m curious about looking back now, what does this tell you about the way our country treats pharmaceutically made chemicals that act in our bodies and plants that act on our bodies?” Michael Pollan: “I think what’s going on in Oregon is a very important experiment for the country. We had…

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Lane county…

The Lane County District Attorney’s Office reinstated the No File Policy for nonviolent, Class C felonies and low-level misdemeanor crimes. Among other crimes, here’s a list that the DA’s office will dismiss: all possession of a controlled substance charges and delivery of controlled substances charges that are non-prison eligible… the policy does not apply to…

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…potency of psychedelics in the brain

[From his two-story lab in University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill School of Medicine, Bryan Roth’s experiments are underway to remove the powerful hallucinogenic effects from psychedelic drugs… idea prompted a $27 million grant from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), a secretive research organization within the U.S. military… everyone from the Department of…

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