Medicine/Healing

Why magic mushroom dispensaries are popping up…

[“We need a civil rights movement for your consciousness,” said Paul Stamets in a TED2022 talk] …there are colourful new signs advertising magic mushrooms for sale inside… that’s been operating in the neighbourhood for years. Walking up a few stairs and through Mushroom Cuts‘ glass doors, you’ll see two salon chairs framed with neon lights…

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Politics

Oregon officials’…

“It’s very offensive that in order to use what we have already been using, I have to go to somebody, pay ten to twenty thousand dollars [for training], and get permission,” said Elan Hagens, a member of the Oregon Psilocybin Advisory Board’s Health Equity Subcommittee. “We just need to let the process run,” said Jesse…

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Anthropology

…free… ‘magic mushrooms’… to celebrate

…handed out free… psilocybin mushrooms… from… dispensary… “Where mushrooms are right now is where cannabis was in the mid-90s, here at the storefront If you come in and you’re an adult… you don’t need a medical designation,” said Larsen. Original Article (CBC):Dana Larsen gave out free ‘magic mushrooms’ in Vancouver to celebrate 4/20Artwork Fair Use:…

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Psychology

…rapidly improve…

Despite a number of clinical trials showing that psilocybin can rapidly treat depression, including for cancer-related anxiety and depression, little is known about how psilocybin actually works to relieve depression in the brain. Now two recent studies, published in The New England Journal of Medicine and Nature Medicine, have shed some light on this mysterious…

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Medicine/Healing

Can magic mushrooms be…

Psychedelic history is just as diverse as the psychedelics themselves. Combined with artistic performances and group discussions, the community psychedelic ritual allows you to absorb the “full tapestry of life”: the threads woven between the molecules in a psilocybin mushroom… psychedelic-assisted therapy is commonly portrayed as an individual experience – for example, Patient A ingested…

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Science

…magic mushroom… smell loss?

Later that night, he reveled in the enchiladas they had for dinner. “I could taste the individual ingredients,” he said. “I mean, it’s not anything I’d wish on anybody to lose their sense of smell, but to lose it and have it come back that abruptly was really — it was a special experience.” Neuroscientist…

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Biography/Memoir

Olympia committee wants to talk about magic mushrooms

Olympia City Council member and Community Livability and Public Safety Committee chair Dontae Payne is mulling having a comprehensive discussion about psilocybin mushrooms and other psychedelic drugs in his committee. Mayor Pro Tem Clark Gilman first brought up the topic of psilocybin mushrooms in a recent city council meeting. Gilman said there is a movement…

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Biography/Memoir

I visited a magic mushroom dispensary…

I stuck around the store for nearly half an hour, and I estimate that 25-30 new people visited the store during that time. I came right when work ended on a Thursday afternoon, which seemed like a busy time for the store. …requires all interested buyers to sign a four-page disclosure document that states they…

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Biography/Memoir

One psychedelic ride… bike for… magic mushrooms

According to Colin Pugh, the executive director of BPS, the Brooklyn Psychedelic Society’s mission is to “make psychedelic healing a publically-accessible good by creating a nationwide network of psychedelic co-ops.” “I think there’s a real opportunity here to build a new kind of mental healthcare system that is owned and operated by the people,” Pugh…

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