Medicine/Healing

Treatment costs, access and magic mushrooms dispensaries

Neuroscience professor at Carleton University and former researcher and policy analyst at the Canadian Center for Substance Use and Addiction Zachary Patterson sees parallels between these new psilocybin dispensaries and cannabis dispensaries’ status before October 2018. Magic Mush is the third magic mushroom dispensary opening in Ottawa after Health Canada’s opening of legal pathways for…

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Anthropology

Tripping with my Mom

After a few failed attempts at finding fungus in the neighboring cow pasture, Mom got an eighth from a friend and said she’d split it with me. Mom and I started tripping. The mushrooms made everything seem fresh. On one of the first trips from my mother’s homegrown batch, I remember watching the green nautiluses…

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Politics

…easily decriminalize “shrooms”

In relation to public policy and political activism, the difference between incrementalism and passing internal pieces of legislation, within the larger goal at hand, is that one approach is counterproductive, while the other uplifts and creates positive change. Incrementalism is the false idea of a compromise that is not only counterproductive, but harmful to the…

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Psychology

Magic mushrooms… safe

…the county containing [the Oregon State capitol], Salem voted to ban psilocybin services. A shop in Portland called the Shroom House [allegedly did]… shops in Vancouver, British Columbia [are] openly selling magic mushrooms. The police aren’t getting involved and are instead targeting violent criminal organizations that produce and traffic harmful opioids, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation…

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Spirituality

Psychedelic chaplains… spiritual guides

The first wave of psychedelic chaplains is already here… reconnecting the link between psychedelics and religion, as science reconnects the link between the drugs and health. As states decriminalize psychedelics, said Ron Cole-Turner, professor emeritus at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary who often writes on theology and psychedelics, recreational, ceremonial and religious uses for psychedelics will likely…

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Politics

Quebec first province to cover costs of psilocybin-assisted psychotherapy

…two doctors have successfully billed the province of Quebec after completing psilocybin-assisted psychotherapy treatment for a patient with legal access granted through Health Canada. …a number of shops selling dried psilocybin and psilocybin-based products, like beverages and edibles, have popped up around Canada, including in Toronto… City of Toronto spokesperson told Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC)…

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Politics

…efforts may herald… era for psychedelics

[US]… the fundamental issues of medicine, therapy, adult use, and schedule 1 drugs will all have to be contended with in some way… this is a huge boon for many supporters of criminal justice reform advocates and harm reduction efforts. Oregon was prohibited by the governing agency from requiring a diagnosis for access to treatment……

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Medicine/Healing

Police close magic mushroom business…

Shroom shops have been opening throughout the country… what many believe is an inevitable full-blown legalization… in September, 2022, a dispensary chain that first opened in Ottawa called Shroomyz… since the November 2022 raid, Toronto said it had no plans to use its powers to shut down the dispensary… “It’s a medical protest,” says the…

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Spirituality

…psilocybin mushroom dispensary opens up in Hamilton

Hamilton is among the latest Canadian cities… psilocybin mushroom store. …dubbed the Mushroom Cabinet, is part of… the cause… the Hamilton store currently offers seven strains of dried psilocybin mushrooms, microdose capsules and edibles to adults aged 19 and older. Original Article (Regina Leader-Post):Unlicensed psilocybin mushroom dispensary opens up in HamiltonArtwork Fair Use: Mikko Veräjänkorva

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