…nearly all bills specified psilocybin, 90%, and…. support for the measures has come from across the political spectrum and investigators say… the trend follows a similar trajectory as the marijuana decriminalization effort… while bills varied in their framework, 58% proposed decriminalization, of which few delineated medical oversight, 23%, or training and/or licensure requirements, 35%… political efforts for…
Many [Oregon] Shroom House customers don’t see a downside… State Sen. Elizabeth Steiner (D-Portland)… “This is like someone opening a cocaine store…” she says. Ironically, farms already grow some of the best… shrooms naturally without even knowing it. You probably might be growing some in your own backyard right now. Wendy, (as seen on KGW…
Long-time drug reform advocate Dana Larsen… was at the forefront of cannabis activism. “Vancouver had a convergence of activism in the 1990s,” he says. Legal cannabis activism, alongside drug user liberation groups like VANDU (Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users), helped to shift the local climate from one where bong shops were raided to one…
…recalls his postdoc years, when his father advised him that psychedelic medicine would be “the kiss of death” for his career. Around 2016, however, there was a major shift around findings showing profound antidepressant and anxiolytic effects among people with advanced stage cancer… another tipping point was the publication of Michael Pollan’s book How to Change…
Kate Brown’s pardons will remove 47,144 convictions for simple possession of marijuana from individual records. Following the pardon, the Oregon Judicial Department will ensure that all related court records are sealed as required by law, according to the governor’s office… the pardoned marijuana convictions will no longer show up on background checks of public court…
“I am an advocate for psychedelics. I can’t help it,” explains 57-year-old Jacqueline Lopez, “I mean, it wasn’t that long ago that I thought to myself, ‘What are you thinking, Jackie? These are Schedule I drugs. You can’t just go around talking about them.’ But the science behind it is superb and I had seen…
Alan Floyd is a cancer patient who uses psilocybin under the federal Right to Try Act. Floyd said traditional pharmaceuticals did not work for him, and that some even made him suicidal. However, he found some solace in psychedelic mushroom capsules. “The way we’ve defined personal use, and that we’re approaching decriminalization, is that individuals…
Another question is whether they’d even want to fight. “Would people all become hippies and leave the military? I don’t think that’s the case. There’s something noble about defending others and defending your country. Some people will choose to serve and some will not,” said Rick Doblin, the founder of the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic…
“As we say with most things you come across in a national park, whether it be a banana slug, unfamiliar mushroom, or a large toad with glowing eyes in the dead of night, please refrain from licking.” Bufotenin can also be found in sometrees and plants, and its use in seeds as “shamanic snuffs” can…
At the farmhouse that morning, as one friend scraped bits of eggs and toast into the trash can and another ceremonially laid out tiny square tabs of LSD on the coffee table… “Acid chicken,” someone said. I took a chicken out of the refrigerator, salt-and-peppered it, and stuffed it with lemons and onions and garlic.…
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