Modern Culture

[Oregon] psilocybin; police make arrests

“Good, I want convictions. This was an illegal distribution of a controlled substance. I wanted it shut down,” Portland Mayor Wheeler said… The Portland Police Bureau said it was up to the Oregon Health Authority (OHA) to handle the situation but added that its drug task force was aware of the business and looking into…

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Politics

Psilocybin possession, use, cultivation, and sharing…

“What didn’t get as much attention was that Measure also legalized the possession, use, cultivation and sharing of psilocybin and other psychedelics for those who are 21 and older. There aren’t going to be retail sales, but people can grow these plants and can give away the product and so that’s very different from the…

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Biography/Memoir

…psychedelics gaining momentum

…nearly all bills specified psilocybin, 90%, and…. support for the measures has come from across the political spectrum and investigators say… the trend follows a similar trajectory as the marijuana decriminalization effort… while bills varied in their framework, 58% proposed decriminalization, of which few delineated medical oversight, 23%, or training and/or licensure requirements, 35%… political efforts for…

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Biography/Memoir

Mushrooms at retail…

Many [Oregon] Shroom House customers don’t see a downside… State Sen. Elizabeth Steiner (D-Portland)… “This is like someone opening a cocaine store…” she says. Ironically, farms already grow some of the best… shrooms naturally without even knowing it. You probably might be growing some in your own backyard right now. Wendy, (as seen on KGW…

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Anthropology

Oregon… learning…

Accessibility is just one issue that psilocybin… will have to grapple with… Psilocybin won’t require a prescription, for example… and growing psilocybin is a magnitudes smaller project than growing cannabis, which Oregonians are quite familiar with. Original Article (Oregon Live):Students in Oregon are already learning how to facilitate psilocybin experiencesArtwork Fair Use: Mycellenz

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Medicine/Healing

Oregon… psychedelic mushrooms… shop

Applicants must be at least 21 years old and complete a questionnaire that asks about anxiety and depression, among other mental health conditions.  …shoppers… lining up, in some cases for reportedly more than two hours, to join the Shroom House Society and begin purchasing psilocybin mushrooms. Original Article (High Times):Portland shop openly selling psychedelic mushroomsArtwork…

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Psychology

Microdosing psilocybin for anxiety: How I ‘shroomed my way to better mental health

Today, we’re experiencing a shift in… landscape around psychedelics as some states and cities move to either decriminalize or outright legalize certain psychedelic substances… I set out to learn more about the actual psilocybin experience. …gummies tasted pleasant – no earthy aftertaste or grittiness – and I didn’t experience any jitters or stomach issues. In…

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Anthropology

…why they’re… for psychedelic mushrooms

…hundreds of… Portlanders [Oregonians] stood in line… to give a… shopkeeper their money… …we asked people in line what they’re buying and why… to many of the people… on the sidewalk, this was no laughing matter… experts… believe Colorado and Oregon are the first dominoes in an inevitable shift toward embracing [psilocybin]… and dismantling Richard…

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Science

Then… ate magic mushrooms

This might explain what happened… the psilocybin reawakened the dormant neural pathway from his hamstring to his brain… just one study has ever evaluated the connection between psychedelics and spinal-cord injury. Psilocybin is thought to be effective at promoting healing because it stimulates neuroplasticity, the brain’s ability to change and adapt through new neural connections,…

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