…the most important reason to have insurers onboard isn’t just to save society money on treating costly mental ailments – it’s to make sure the benefits are distributed to more than just affluent individuals who can afford hours long psychedelic journeys integrated by therapy. “Governments and corporations are selfish. Our job is to fight the bastards…
One, the measure to get psilocybin… legalized and one for decriminalization, both just in one state in Oregon. Let’s say even together it was something on the order of 10 million dollars. And so, calling this out to say… the amount of money that is raised by all these companies, say, GH Pharma, ATAI, Compass,…
There is a growing belief that whatever Canada decides will have a direct impact on the U.S. and this country’s psilocybin legalization efforts. The challenge also noted a precedent to change how the government could work with psilocybin by citing two landmark cannabis cases, where Canadian courts ruled that the absolute prohibition of cannabis by the…
Federal legalization… means a psychedelic substance has been removed from the Drug Enforcement Administration’s list of scheduled substances… the DEA can choose to de-schedule a substance at any time. …federal legalization doesn’t mean state-level legalization. Most states have a “trigger” system that follows DEA decisions, but others will decide for themselves whether to legalize after DEA…
Personal use means the personal ingestion or use of a natural medicine… adopting a public health and harm reduction approach to natural medicines by removing criminal penalties for personal use for adults twenty-one years of age and older… It would also sanction home cultivation and the sharing of medicines, but prohibit private sales… defines [sharing]…
…while Oregon voters in 2020 approved the supervised use of psychedelic mushrooms, the citizen initiative on the Colorado ballot in November [2022] goes further… would allow the personal use of psilocybin mushrooms and certain plant-based psychedelic substances by adults 21. As of June [2022], 15 cities and other local U.S. jurisdictions have decriminalized… psilocybin or…
In late January 2022, the Oregon state legislature filed a pre-session, psilocybin social equity bill to supplement the state’s groundbreaking Measure 109 program. That legislation is new Senate Bill 1580, sponsored by ten Democratic state lawmakers… a critical time, as Oregon’s new legal psilocybin program serves to transition psilocybin from an illegal substance into a…
…the review of marijuana’s federal scheduling status will be tasked to the Food and Drug Administration… “The president was very clear – he wants this done as quickly as possible,” U.S. Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Xavier Becerra said, “It’s not new science, but there’s lot of information to gather because in many states…
…the supervised therapeutic use of psilocybin and psilocin, two psychoactive compounds in magic mushrooms, for adults ages 21 [&] decriminalize the personal possession, growing, use and sharing of those substances, as well as ibogaine, mescaline and dimethyltryptamine, or DMT, for adults 21 years old and up. Denver became the first city in the U.S. to…
It would also be permissible for New Jersey citizens to grow mushrooms at home… …“authorizes production and use of psilocybin to promote health and wellness; decriminalizes, and expunges past offenses involving psilocybin production, possession, use and distribution,” the use of psilocybin, if this bill were to be enacted, would be governed by the Department of…
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