Modern Culture

What we learned at Colorado’s first psychedelic cup

Presenters placed a gold medal around grower #9870’s neck as he beamed with pride for his potent shrooms. Psychedelic Cup… follows the model of the much-older Cannabis Cup, which was founded in 1988 by a High Times editor and gives out annual awards to cannabis growers for exceptional weed… today, the Cannabis Cup is a place for growers…

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Politics

Ukraine: ecstasy, mushrooms to fight war trauma

…calls to permit their use in psychotherapy have been growing in Ukraine following Russia’s full-scale invasion. Experts in Ukraine are appealing to parliament to facilitate the therapeutic use of these substances. Ksenia Voznitsyna, director of the Ukrainian Health Ministry’s Center for Veterans’ Mental Health and Rehabilitation, is a leading voice in the campaign. “We are…

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Biography/Memoir

Air conditioners on a cold day?

The bust came as two states and several cities in the U.S. have decriminalized psychedelic mushrooms and their active ingredient, psilocybin… Authorities said they received a tip that the resident of the Burlington home was operating a psilocybin mushroom growing operation. Federal, state and local law enforcement officials went to the property Thursday morning and…

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Medicine/Healing

…using magic mushrooms…

Mason Marks, the senior fellow and lead of the Project on Psychedelics Law and Regulation at Harvard Law School’s Petrie-Flom Center, told… in an interview… that psilocybin is clearly growing in popularity as various states and cities promote new laws to decriminalize and legalize the drug. “The pieces of legislation are growing, they’re being replicated…

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