The ingestion of just 2 milligrams of fentanyl can prove fatal to adults. …allows prosecutors to treat fentanyl like other hard drugs under Measure 110. The Oregon District Attorneys Association, Oregon Association Chiefs of Police and the Oregon State Sheriffs’ Association supported the new legislation… HB 2645… creating a misdemeanor for having more than 1…
A service center with a $200,000 profit could see a tax bill of $300,000, putting it underwater unless it compensates by raising prices by 30%… at the end of the day, a psilocybin session will run about $1,500 to $3,500… Governor Tina Kotek signed SB 303 into law on June 6th, 2023… in addition to…
[Colorado] voters passed a referendum in 2022 to decriminalize certain… [naturally-occurring psychedelics] by a wider margin than one to allow grocery stores to carry wine. Denver had done the same a few years prior. In the 2022 election, Colorado passed Proposition 122, which decriminalized the consumption, cultivation and possession of a handful of psychedelic drugs,…
Colorado voted to legalize psilocybin in 2022 [including state-wide home cultivation] and Oregon was the first state to allow adults to use [it] after a successful ballot measure passed in 2020. James Davis [who now runs Bay Staters for Natural Medicine] said legalization in Massachusetts would reduce the stigma that surrounds research scholars from studying…
While the high cost of services (possibly unavoidable under current rules) is a constant focus, particularly among advocates and the broader psychedelic community, I often find myself debating the terminology for psilocybin services under Measure 109, particularly the use of the term “therapy.” Using “therapy” to describe services under Measure 109 is… a misnomer. In traditional healthcare settings, therapy…
Oregon Health Authority (OHA) has asked for $6.6 million to fill the program’s budget gap for the fiscal biennium starting July 1 [2023], according to a 13-page “policy option package,” or POP, that’s now sitting in the Legislature… Measure 109… to make the psilocybin program pay for itself… there is no hard and fast date…
In most of these decriminalized places, it’s not a crime – or a very minor one – to grow mushrooms and give them away… in more than 20 cities, states and counties – from Ann Arbor to Somerville, MA, to Santa Cruz, CA… some psychedelics… are decriminalized or legalized. Colorado legalized mushrooms for personal use…
Proposition 122. [“People can grow it for their own use… there’s no criminal penalties if you grow it yourself for recreational…” said Governor Jared Polis.] [Subsequently] Senate Bill 23-290… passed… before the 2023 session ended… puts guidelines on Proposition 122, the landmark psychedelics ballot initiative passed by Colorado voters last November [2022]. Although the bill received plenty of attention…
The World Health Organization’s (WHO) founding constitution defines health as “a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.” Leaving psychedelics in the hands of the biomedical industry and state-regulated facilities can undermine their potential by excluding more diverse “sets and settings” (a term describing how…
A law signed by Gov. Jay Inslee on Tuesday [5/17/2023] would make possessing or publicly using drugs a gross misdemeanor offense… Under the new law, the penalties for a person’s first two drug offenses will be lower than for most gross misdemeanors – up to 180 days in jail… the maximum fine will also be… $1,000… encourages prosecutors…
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