Politics

…psilocybin therapy opt-out

Dave: The introductory session to set the intention and to sort of get the parameters of what’s going to happen, the hallucinogenic session, and then the follow up seession… all of that is laid out in this statute you want voters to say yes to. In other words, it would be Oregon law that people…

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Anthropology

…psilocybin, we speak to local expert

…when the option for micro-dosing magic mushrooms is available… What motivates… a big step… join the forces to promote another controversial drug? Oregon currently ranks the lowest in mental health illness – a fact backed up by the Mental Health America statistics showing Oregon at No. 51 for prevalence among adults and youths. Original Article…

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Biography/Memoir

Jackson County, Oregon

August 5th, 2022: Jackson County, Oregon: Early morning warrant was served in Jackson County, Oregon and uncovered… processed psilocybin mushrooms. Police say they found… about… five pounds of psilocybin mushrooms. [The Jackson County Board of Commissioners already decided to put psilocybin on the November 2022 ballot. That vote will apply to unincorporated parts of the…

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Biography/Memoir

Jackson County, Oregon [Medford & Ashland]

August 4th, 2022: Jackson County, Oregon: The Medford City Council voted unanimously not to put a psilocybin ban on the November ballot. Medford joins Ashland as the second city in Jackson County to ensure the drug will be legalized. The measure allows for manufacturing and therapeutic use of the drug. The Jackson County Board of…

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Anthropology

…psychedelic microdoses

…highlights that most FDA-approved research studies focus on the clinical outcomes of using consciousness-altering doses of psychedelics during guided sessions, and that state-regulated models only allow access to quantities of psychedelics that dramatically shift consciousness.  …with a lack of regulatory pathways to accessing sub-perceptible doses of psychedelics… seeking to create a legal pathway for microdosing…

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Politics

…psychedelics efforts advance, ‘shrooms could…

…grew out of concerns that… lead to a for-profit industry that would end up making it harder for people who’d traditionally used psychedelic drugs to access them… support a ‘grow, gather, gift’ model, so it means you’re growing your own… “Once you create a market, and a legal, regulated access framework, what you’re doing is…

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Politics

Many counties are voting to opt out… [of M109]

…you won’t be able to purchase it and take it home, Angela Allbee said… if you were to just look at the map… you’ll quickly grow concerned and confused about the future of Measure 109 in Oregon. After all, didn’t the state vote “Yes?” …clients will have an opportunity to take psilocybin in a controlled,…

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Politics

Avoiding the power trip

Maybe most important of all… looking at what Timothy Leary would have called the “set and setting” in which today’s psychedelic renaissance is occurring. Is it one of love, mutual aid, and collective development? Or is it about control, profit, and further domination? This matters. …this dovetailed all-too-well with John Barlow telling the psychedelic internet that…

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Spirituality

San Francisco… resolution… naturally-occurring psychedelics

San Francisco lawmakers… introduced a resolution aiming at locally deprioritizing law enforcement on the possession, use, cultivation and social sharing of naturally-occurring psychedelic substances like psilocybin, DMT, ibogaine… “We believe decriminalization offers… public safety and risk reduction by promoting safe access, safe spaces and above ground education and training,” clinical psychologist with Decriminalize Nature San Francisco, Dr. Jennifer Christian.…

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Politics

Psilocybin microdosing… scientific [studies]

The new study is one of the first to use placebo controls, the researchers [erroneously, apparently] said. For their study, researchers recruited 34 people who were planning to start a microdosing regimen. For 1 week, some of the subjects got a half gram of dried mushrooms in a gel cap, and others got a placebo……

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