The House of Representatives endorsed the bill in a 70-69 vote on Monday that was followed Tuesday by a 17-16 vote in the Senate. The measure faces further action in both Democratic-led chambers, with Gov. Janet Mills looming as a potential obstacle after her administration sent police to testify against decriminalization earlier this year. Advocates…
The state had argued that a federal judge could not require Oregon Health Authority to allow the additional psilocybin service in special cases when people cannot travel to treatment centers because it would violate federal law, the Controlled Substances Act, and expand what state law now allows. The providers want the state to comply with…
Portland advocates for psychedelic drug use are hoping to put an initiative on the city’s 2026 ballot that would protect people who use what they call non-toxic and non-addictive plant- or mushroom-based psychedelic drugs from arrest. Under the proposed initiative, non-toxic and non-addictive psychedelics would be designated police officers’ “lowest priority for enforcement,” according to the initiative…
…it’s foundational to understand that it doesn’t yet represent the federal government at large. The change is coming piece by piece, through individual states’ actions, bills introduced by forward-thinking lawmakers, and the support of certain political factions. The burgeoning psychedelic renaissance with political backing could revolutionize mental health treatment and social justice relating to drug…
“We have New Mexicans who are suffering with various conditions that are really kind of end runs in some cases, major drug-resistant depression where the pharmaceutical world isn’t giving them any relief or they have major major side effects, they need another option,” said Sen. Steinborn. Modeled after programs in Oregon and Colorado, the bipartisan…
With respect to psychedelics mushrooms, it would make it illegal “to transport, import, sell, offer for sale, furnish, or give away spores or mycelium capable of producing mushrooms or other material which will contain a controlled substance, including psilocybin or psilocyn, during its lifecycle.” With respect to psychedelics mushrooms, it would make it illegal “to…
The report from Doctors for Drug Policy Reform (D4DPR) says decriminalizing use and possession of psychedelics by adults “provides a viable path to reducing mass incarceration, addressing systemic inequities, supporting public health, and lays the foundation for rational drug policy reform.” “Criminalizing the personal use and possession of psychedelics is a costly misuse of resources,”…
Without the efforts of this “small band of anticapitalist activists,” the authors argue, Lykos Therapeutics’ “$250 million investment” in MDMA-AT may have paid off by being the first psychedelic therapy to get federal approval – potentially establishing the company as a multibillion-dollar enterprise. As a journalist who has followed the psychedelics movement for years and attended hearings…
That means Save Lives Oregon, a state-funded program that provides harm reduction resources, training and items such as clean syringes, Narcan and fentanyl test strips to local organizations, will get $5.1 million instead of $21.6 million in opioid settlement funding through 2027. Several members of the 18-person Opioid Settlement Prevention, Treatment and Recovery Board… stressed that…
…accounts of explorers in the 17th and 18th centuries witnessing mushroom rituals and shamanism in Siberia. Before the Russians and Finns introduced them to vodka, A muscaria was not only a sacrament but the inebriant of choice for the native tribes of Siberia and Lapland, in northern Scandinavia, eaten in a soup or fermented into a brew… British scholar John Allegro in…
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