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Oregon… psilocybin… center will open…

Tom Eckert [originally of IP-12 (broad psilocybin mushroom cultivation decriminalization for Oregonian adults 21 and older) which he supported switching to IP-34 which subsequently turned into M109] and Rachel Aidan [formerly of the bankrupt Synthesis Institute in Oregon] are the co-founders of the Center: a 5,000-square-foot facility located at the corner of Burnside and MLK…

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Denver psilocybin support center…

After Darren took out an ad in Westword, his business at a studio in the 800 block of W. Eighth Avenue gained popularity. “Since I started making both cannabis and psilocybin edibles for my dad, I’ve seen his healing process,” said Darren Lyman [who] offers support sessions, and then provides the mushrooms for free. Shannon…

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Oregon psilocybin… data rules

To investigate, Psychedelic Week reviewed footage of Oregon House and Senate discussions regarding the bill… a short video titled The Most Important Thing About Senate Bill 303… unable to find cases where Steiner or the Fund, which lobbied for the bill’s passage, mentioned a partial opt out. …one of the most frequently discussed topics was the…

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Is Massachusetts… in trouble?

…multiple sources say the Massachusetts psychedelic ballot campaign run by New Approach PAC may have made technical errors while collecting signatures for its 2024 ballot initiative. If the rumors are true, it is unclear what kind of error created the urgent need to collect signatures anew. The conspiratorially-minded might wonder whether these rumors could serve…

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Denver psilocybin mushroom dispensary…

Darren Lyman, who’s currently moving full steam ahead on the buildout of his co-op… so far, he hasn’t heard any objections from the government. Although both Prop 122 and resulting laws allow for commercial psilocybin use to take place only under supervision, Lyman argues that his co-op isn’t trying to be a supervised use site.…

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The search for…

There’s a lot of… profiteering out there, and… it’s hard not to see the desires to turn psychedelics into another pharmaceutical commodity… …unlike most other chemists, Sasha wasn’t driven by profit. He seems to have been motivated by sheer enthusiasm for drugs and their potential promise for unlocking hidden realms of consciousness and secrets of…

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Air conditioners on a cold day?

The bust came as two states and several cities in the U.S. have decriminalized psychedelic mushrooms and their active ingredient, psilocybin… Authorities said they received a tip that the resident of the Burlington home was operating a psilocybin mushroom growing operation. Federal, state and local law enforcement officials went to the property Thursday morning and…

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America goes psychedelic, again

…from the research labs to the streets, they became part of the counterculture… Turn on, tune in and drop out… they fueled the summer of love and protest against the war in Vietnam… thousands of demonstrators opposed to the Vietnam War; Richard Nixon saw the anti-war movements as political threats, so he fought back with…

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Vancouver police arrest two people associated with drug-advocacy group that hands out free illicit drugs

The drugs are distributed as part of DULF’s [Drug User’s Liberation Front] compassion club, which enrolls people who use drugs as members and then distributes up to 14 grams of a substance to them per week, according to the group’s website… police seized what is believed to be heroin, methamphetamine, and cocaine… Previously the group has…

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