…the regional district manager of Shroomyz called the company’s operations a “medical protest.” While Toronto previously used bylaws to target unlicensed cannabis dispensaries, though one chain has found a way to avoid being shut down, it doesn’t appear the city will target Shroomyz in the same way. After being formally denied a meeting, the delegation plans to hold…
Long-time drug reform advocate Dana Larsen… was at the forefront of cannabis activism. “Vancouver had a convergence of activism in the 1990s,” he says. Legal cannabis activism, alongside drug user liberation groups like VANDU (Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users), helped to shift the local climate from one where bong shops were raided to one…
The city says it has no plans to use its powers to shut down Toronto’s only magic mushroom dispensary after a Toronto police raid earlier this month, leaving the shop still operating in a kind of grey area. CBC Toronto also reached out to Toronto’s Board of Health, which has been vocal in support of decriminalizing…
…recalls his postdoc years, when his father advised him that psychedelic medicine would be “the kiss of death” for his career. Around 2016, however, there was a major shift around findings showing profound antidepressant and anxiolytic effects among people with advanced stage cancer… another tipping point was the publication of Michael Pollan’s book How to Change…
Cannabis and psychedelics specialist lawyer Paul Lewin explained to CBC News that the general sense is that the law is outdated and Shroomyz is “filling a void” for a medical need. Toronto police recently raided the city’s first magic mushroom dispensary, Shroomyz. The store has reopened since, and the city is apparently not planning to shut it down even though it does not…
“History has been made this week. We proved to the world it’s possible to pass a ballot measure that not only provides access to natural psychedelic-assisted therapy in a responsible state-regulated… …setting but also protects individual and community-based healing modalities from arrest and many civil offenses,” Joshua Kappel, the author of Prop 122, said in…
The Associated Press called the vote for the measure, Proposition 122, on Friday morning [11/11/22] ; 92% of the votes were in as of 11 a.m., with 52.3% of voters in favor. It’s similar to 2020 measures approved in Oregon, which decriminalized possession of small amounts of drugs in 2021 and is launching a psilocybin…
[If successful, Measure 111 establishes a right to affordable, effective health care in state constitution. Gaetano Lardieri BA, LMT, MPM writes, “Not allowing micro-dosing I would argue is borderline racist!”] The MAPS Bulletin just published an article by Ismail Ali and Jonathan Perez-Reyzin exploring the challenges and controversies of Measure 109 rulemaking. The two major…
The advocates said education is a key to breaking down resistance. Oregon’s law does not create a market for psilocybin, and possession, consumption and manufacturing… outside licensed facilities will remain illegal… battles over the regulations might occur… 137 Oregon towns and counties vote to opt out of psilocybin services. Original Article (Oregon Capitol Chronicle &…
This is a high-level 4-step process someone would go through when they would be looking to seek access to psilocybin… “I do have a lot of concerns about how accessible this is going to be because it seems there are so many hurdles and so many barriers to be able to start a treatment center…
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