Politics

What’s next… psychedelic mushrooms… road ahead…

…people who want a voice in this process… For now, there is evidence that the decriminalization of psychedelic mushrooms in Denver in 2019 has “not since presented any significant public health or safety risk in the city,” according to the Psilocybin Mushroom Policy Review Panel’s Comprehensive Report in 2021. Original Article (Aspen Times):What’s next for…

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Politics

Oregon rolls out psilocybin… as nation watches

Mushroom cultivation requires much less space, water, time and electricity than cannabis cultivation.  Measure 109 allows for local jurisdictions to opt out of allowing [IP-12 to IP-34 to Measure 109 to ORS 475A to Division 333] psilocybin services within their borders. In the last general election, more than 100 of the state’s cities and counties voted…

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Modern Culture

Colorado… psilocybin… home-grow

Nicole Foerster of Decriminalize Nature Boulder County… psilocybin a person can grow and possess [and share]… …any encroachment on those positions, Foerster said, “would be considered a rollback of the personal use section” of the measure… Kevin Matthews [who said, “I don’t like the word ‘fight’ – they’re prepared to defend the measure… I didn’t…

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Biography/Memoir

Oregon congressman… the trend will ‘continue’

“I still think these are the greatest thing since sliced bread,” Marty Clements says about the mushrooms. He takes a prescription bottle out of his bag, opens it and takes a couple of squares of psilocybin chocolate into his hands. He puts the chocolate back in the bottle and snaps the lid shut. Since Marty…

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Politics

Ferndale decriminalizes magic mushrooms and other psychedelics

Ferndale is the fourth Michigan city to decriminalize psychedelic plants and fungi after Detroit, Hazel Park, and Ann Arbor. Ferndale City Council unanimously approved a resolution to decriminalize… investigation and arrest of persons for planting, cultivating, purchasing, transporting, distributing, engaging in practices… with entheogenic plants and fungi like psilocybin mushrooms, ayahuasca, and dimethyltryptamine (aka DMT).…

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Politics

…psilocybin bill protecting patients from prosecution and promoting research

The House Alcohol, Tobacco and Controlled Substances Committee… …people who face prosecution over psilocybin possession would be afforded an affirmative defense if they can “demonstrate by clear and convincing evidence” that they have a medical condition that falls under the list of study subjects like PTSD or chronic pain. Oklahoma lawmakers have approved bill in…

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Medicine/Healing

NORML… psilocybin rescheduling…

NORML [writes]… “When considering appeals from the denials of rescheduling petitions… …this Court should consider the real-world effect that lengthy delays have on patients who have no other options available and wish to try breakthrough therapies, such as psilocybin or cannabis. These procedural delays of the past – which often amounted to years, if not…

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Biography/Memoir

…implications… shops selling psilocybin mushrooms

No retail mushroom stores are permitted under the [Oregon M109 or M110] law. But… Shroom House has at least demonstrated that such a business can exist without hastening the end of civilization. “We haven’t seen any people admitted to hospitals or arrested; it shows hundreds or thousands of people can purchase psilocybin, go do it…

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Anthropology

Oregon… magic mushrooms… many… aren’t waiting

…talk to almost anyone who has begun tripping recently and you learn that most of them are confronting the end times, not running from them. Mushrooms have been popular in this part of the world since the 1960s… the cool, wet state is perfect for growing Psilocybe semilanceata, the slender little ‘shroom better known as the…

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Modern Culture

Shroom House shrooms… magic mushrooms be sold openly…

It turns out Shroom House was selling real shrooms… that said, Shroom House wasn’t the first – and will likely not be the last – shop where adults can obtain magic mushrooms openly. …we did a one-subject human trial confirming that a gram made for an interesting evening… customers came in droves, waiting for hours…

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