Biography/Memoir

Recriminalizing drug possession [Two 2024 Oregon ballot initiatives submitted]

Chief Petitioners, Nate Sickler, Resident of Medford, Oregon, Jerrod Murray, Resident of Portland, Oregon, Juanita Swartwood, Resident of Portland, Oregon… [supporting that manufacturing (growing) more than 12 grams of psilocybin containing mushrooms (Class A Felony) will be punished more harshly than manufacturing methamphetamine (Class B Felony)]… Class A Felonies in Oregon… are punishable by up…

READ MORE
Science

World’s largest study on naturalistic [non-clinical, real-world settings] psilocybin use… reveals lasting therapeutic benefits

The study, which represents the world’s largest longitudinal dataset on naturalistic psilocybin use to date, is published in Frontiers in Psychiatry and indicates broad therapeutic potential of a single dose of psilocybin to produce lasting improvements in mental health and wellbeing… data was collected from surveying 8,006 participants over a two year period… self-reported information on the…

READ MORE
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,”…

READ MORE
Science

How long do shrooms stay in your system?

Effects of shrooms typically are felt within 10 to 40 minutes after ingestion and peak within 60 to 90 minutes. Effects of psilocybin last four to six hours after ingestion… …people use shrooms for various reasons, from experiencing heightened senses to improving mental health and well-being… shrooms’ lifetime in your system can vary based on…

READ MORE
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.…

READ MORE
Science

Standards without labs: drug development in the psychedelic underground

How, then, might citizen scientists develop standards given the difficulty of obtaining these tools? Our discussion highlights how the pragmatic goals of knowledge production… consumed their medicine in the form of homegrown psilocybe mushrooms because they lacked access… of citizen science differ from the institutionalized scientists’ need to legitimate their findings with academic journals, peers,…

READ MORE
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……

READ MORE
Politics

Meet shroom mom, LA’s most fabulous… dealer

Around the time I met Shroom Mom, I was having a druggie fling with a fentanyl dealer… while fentanyl …boy and mushroom mama are both, technically, drug dealers, they occupy opposite ends of the spectrum: …boy pulsed with the carnivorous bloodlust of the streets, and I watched him callously cut cocaine with chemical fillers (not…

READ MORE