Politics

Psilocybe mushrooms: KLCC: NPR [CPR] news: morning edition: 7/4/2023

Steve Inskeep & Rob Smith: After being… [the first state]… to legalize marijuana… [for home grow…] Voter’s approved [Colorado] Proposition 122. It allows Coloradans to grow and use plants and fungi containing psychedelic substances like psilocybin… “122 gave us the opportunity to use our voice and to share the healing power of mushrooms with others,”…

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Biography/Memoir

Oregon… legal psilocybin access amid high demand…

The clients can’t buy mushrooms to go, and they must stay at the service center… it’s too early to assess Oregon’s mushroom legalization… Oregon licensed grower Gared Hansen has come full circle from the 16 years he spent as a police officer in San Francisco. He once busted a psilocybin dealer in Golden Gate Park.…

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Politics

In defense of drug decriminalization – yes, in Oregon

The passage of Measure 110 was the culmination of years of efforts to show Oregonians and people across the country that the harms of incarceration can compound on, exacerbate, and – in some cases- exceed the harms caused by drug use itself. Oregon’s Health Authority has reported a 44 percent increase in people seeking treatment…

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Politics

Decriminalisation on the ground: Inside a drug consumption room in Lisbon

The Portuguese authorities have not stopped targeting organised crime. Law enforcement officials The Journal met in Lisbon confirmed that they are still seizing tonnes of drugs annually.  Psychologist Roberta Reis said many of the service users come from work in the evenings. “They come here and they can function normally,” she said. “We asked our service users…

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Politics

The medicalized psychedelic narrative is out of control

…remember when tripping on mushrooms in the forest and taking MDMA on a dance floor at an underground rave was fun? Not on the corporate psychedelia watch. Psychedelics are tools of the medical establishment now, cogs in a closed loop economy dictated by pharmaceutical conglomerates and their armies of gatekeepers. Tripping is now serious business……

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Politics

Biden administration moves to loosen weed restrictions

The DEA confirmed… that it received the letter… the DEA is not required to follow Department of Health and Human Services recommendation. The Biden administration’s Department of Health and Human Services is recommending that the Drug Enforcement Administration significantly loosen federal restrictions on marijuana but stopped short of advising that it should be entirely removed…

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