Medicine/Healing

How psychedelics can transform end-of-life care

More than two dozen other states and the U.S. House of Representatives are also grappling with their own versions of psychedelic legislation… the end of life is not only a universal experience, we also know it’s one where psychedelic medicines can spur a massive paradigm shift in how we provide care. The human body and…

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Anthropology

Multiple cities… ban psilocybin-related businesses

Coburg, Cottage Grove, Creswell, Dunes City and Junction City all supported the banning… The state established temporary rules for the product with permanent rules to come after Dec. 31 [2022]. Original Article (Register Guard):Election results: multiple cities on track to ban psilocybin-related businessesArtwork Fair Use: Mapoflanecountyoregon

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Psychology

Researchers look to psychedelics to transform mental healthcare

As an operator who has worked in the psychedelics space for… years, I have been exposed to every facet of the industry. The U.S. state of Oregon has voted to legalize [adult-use] psilocybin… on the regulation and policy side… a more favorable regulatory and social landscape is helping psychedelic startups gain a foothold in this…

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Biography/Memoir

All veterans should have access to the psilocybin…

Even the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has started offering psychedelic substances to patients as a part of clinical trials. Veteran Luke Gruber said, “I didn’t want the pills provided by the Department of Veterans Affairs. And talk therapy just didn’t help. Rudderless and prone to extreme mood swings, I increasingly isolated myself from family…

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Biography/Memoir

It’s legal to use… magic mushrooms… in Oregon…

Chrissi DelaCruz had it “in a powder form that was mixed with, like, a juice… that proved to me that everything that I need to heal is within myself,” she said… Asked if he worries about giving doses of psilocybin on the same property where his wife and their three toddlers live, Jason Lampman pointed directly…

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Politics

Oregonians… psilocybin is on the ballot…

…two-and-a-half million Oregonians will have local access to psilocybin therapy next year [2023]… such a system is time consuming and likely to cost thousands rather than hundreds of dollars. …the new program involves people meeting with a facilitator several times, discussing why they want to take psilocybin, and being closely monitored while they use the…

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Science

Psychedelic users tend to have greater objective knowledge about climate change, study finds

…the research team recruited 641 participants… published in Drug Science, Policy, and Law… …the results of these efforts found that those with a history of psilocybin, followed by LSD, scored highest in “nature relatedness” and knowledge of climate change… has made new inroads into understanding the relationship between taking psychedelics and feeling connected to nature… Original…

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