In Massachusetts… there would be… protections for underground trippers… as in Colorado… [but unlike Oregon’s M109 which doesn’t protect personal cultivation or sharing of psilocybe mushrooms ] no one would be arrested for growing and sharing a reasonable amount of mushrooms. New Approach [PAC] may pour millions into a sophisticated campaign. The state could erect…
In 2019 I founded Get Your Drugs Tested, a free service which analyzes street drugs for users. It’s now the world’s busiest… of its kind – 58,000 samples analyzed. Funded entirely by sales of cannabis & mushrooms from my dispensaries. Original Article (X [formerly known as Twitter]):Mushroom DispensaryArtwork Fair Use: Dana Larsen
According to Dominique Mendiola… will emphasize practices to avoid arrests, hospitalization and involuntary mental health commitments, but she recognizes that behavioral experiences are intended with some psychedelics. Colorado followed Oregon, becoming the second state to legalize… psilocybin… but Oregon didn’t decriminalize the personal cultivation and possession of psilocybin, DMT, mescaline and ibogaine. Mendiola, who also…
“The money makes it inaccessible to a lot of people. For those that have the money, they’re going to fly in from wherever,” Susanne Ulvi, said… was a social worker… became a licensed psilocybin facilitator. …several magic mushroom entrepreneurs told the Capital Chronicle that most customers have traveled to Oregon from out of state to…
Existing commercial interests in the medical psychedelics sphere may unfortunately be ambivalent about, or even actively obstruct wider reform efforts where they perceive it as undermining progress towards medical or therapeutic commercialisation… [therefore] exploring options for non-commercial market models can also be an important component of this strategy. This should certainly include allowing home cultivation,…
The strictly facilitated model is not the only way to envision psilocybin access; community-based ceremony, the ability to experience psilocybin around members of your own community, is preferable to many groups and cultures. Some advocates say that legalization without decriminalization makes community-based sharing less accessible. How extreme is wealth inequality in Oregon? So extreme that,…
A downtown Kelowna store that’s been selling psilocybin mushrooms was raided by police on Friday, but the owners vow to reopen soon. Essence Wellness… stating they’ll be reopening “in the next coming days.” Storefronts selling psilocybin products have been recently popping up in Vancouver, where they’re following the example set by the “grey market” cannabis…
The psychedelic gold rush raises a range of challenging questions around the commercialisation and availability of psychedelics and the risk of corporate capture… [therefore]… …a four-tiered regulation model “that attempts to manage the variety of psychedelic preparations and the different ways in which they are used”. These include: 1) Private use, home cultivation, foraging and not-for-profit…
If voters are faced with another ballot measure, Brian Renauer, chair of the Criminology and Criminal Justice at Portland State University (PSU), said they should consider the “most important component of Measure 110 is the increasing of resources for treatment opportunities for those suffering from substance use disorders that didn’t exist during the War on…
On September 20, 2023, Jared Moffat, spokesman for the New Approach PAC (“New Approach”), sent an email to supporters of a 2024 Massachusetts ballot initiative that would change how the state regulates psychedelic substances, [stating] “What I believe is that decriminalizing home cultivation, is the right thing to do. And it’s the best policy because,…
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