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Hazel Park becomes third Michigan city to decriminalize natural psychedelics

March 23, 2022By

Hazel Park City Council voted unanimously Tuesday [3/22/2022] to decriminalize psilocybin mushrooms and other entheogenic plants. The resolution defines entheogenic plants as “plants, fungi, and natural materials that can benefit psychological and physical wellness, support and enhance religious and spiritual practices, and can reestablish human’s inalienable and direct relationship to nature.” They include psychedelic mushrooms,…

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D.C. psychedelics decriminalization initiative officially takes effect

March 23, 2022By

“It is declared the policy of this act to make investigation and arrest of adults [18+] for non-commercial planting, cultivating, purchasing, transporting, distributing, possessing or engaging in practices with entheogenic plants and fungi among the lowest law enforcement priorities for the District of Columbia…” this is a notable accomplishment for advocates, as Congress has previously…

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[Natural] Oregon… [born] psilocybin

March 18, 2022By

Small businesses and Oregon start-ups hoping to offer practicum training… …will not have immediate access to psilocybin like wealthy corporations.  Original Article (Lexology):Oregon psilocybin: licensing subcommittee updateArtwork Fair Use: inequality.org

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Oregon… offer psychedelics outside the health care system

March 17, 2022By

“There are a lot of concerns about organizations outside Oregon trying to influence the process here and to stifle real meaningful discussion by people in Oregon,” said Mason Marks [of Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology and Bioethics at Harvard Law School] (Cambridge, Massachusetts). Once the regulations are clearly laid out, the company will…

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Magic mushroom dispensaries operating openly in Vancouver

March 17, 2022By

In the City of Vancouver, buying magic mushrooms, in at least one case, can be as easy as ordering your morning cup of coffee… says city bylaw officers sometimes visit, his business license as a café was recently renewed. From the outside, the mushroom dispensary on the edge of Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside makes no attempt…

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New Approach PAC IP-59 & Decriminalize Nature IP-61

March 15, 2022By

Two proposed initiatives. Under IP-59 [establishing regulated access by adults twenty-one years of age and older to natural medicine that show promise in improving well-being, life satisfaction, and overall health and the department shall have the authority to adopt rules that differentiate between natural medicines and that regulate each natural medicine differently… Local government impact.…

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…license moratoriums…

March 10, 2022By

Two counties in southern Oregon have declared states of emergency related to cannabis… Law enforcement agencies found a slew of problems… including workers living in squalid conditions… Original Article (OPB):Hemp license moratoriums coming to 2 Oregon countiesArtwork Fair Use: Gary Halvorson

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Oregonians…

March 9, 2022By

Oregon is the first state to allow the use of magic mushrooms, which have been used recreationally since the 60s in the United States. The legalization of psilocybin in Oregon is equivalent to cannabis, which was legalized for medical use in 1998 and for recreational use in [2014]. Magic mushrooms grow in the Northwest and…

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…bill increasing cannabis sales tax in Oregon dies

March 6, 2022By

The 2022 Oregon legislative session will end without new cannabis taxes… legislation allowing city and county governments to increase local cannabis sales taxes from 3% to 10% died. During SB 1524’s hearing in the house committee on revenue, both Democrats and Republican indicated support for increasing the local sales tax city and county governments can…

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What are psilocybin spores?

March 6, 2022By

Cultivating psilocybin spores is still illegal in much of the United States. Buying psilocybin spores with the intent to cultivate them, however, is illegal, except in Denver, Colorado; Oakland, and Santa Cruz California; and Ann Arbor, Michigan, [et al.] where growing, selling, and possessing psilocybin has been decriminalized. Original Article (Psychedelic Spotlight):What are psilocybin spores?Artwork…

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