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,…
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……
“The shift from ‘destroyer of young minds’ in the Sixties to effective medicine in the 2020s is as sudden as it is confusing to many people,” said Michael Pollan He accepts, however, that it is unlikely that the use of psychedelics could ever be confined to purely institutional settings. “The use of psychedelics will not…
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…
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…
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…
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…
[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…
…letter from the Health and Human Services Department discloses the anticipated FDA approval of MDMA and psilocybin treatments… the May [2022] correspondence, not shared publicly until now, is the clearest indication yet that top officials are preparing for the approval of psychedelic drugs – demonized for decades after former President Richard Nixon sought means to…
According to Lane County Public Health and Eugene Police, the community is seeing an increase in street drugs containing fentanyl – a powerful, illicit opioid with high risk for overdose. “We have seen fentanyl contamination in cheap, counterfeit pills sold as common medications such as oxycodone, Adderall, or Xanax,” the department said. “We also have…
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