Measure 109 depends on federal cooperation because the therapy will remain illegal on the federal level. The measure would not mean psilocybin would be available in stores or to take home. Measure 109. The Oregon Psychiatric Physicians Association argues that the measure is unsafe and makes misleading promises to people struggling with mental illness. A…
…campaign is seeing pushback… …dissent from certain psychedelics reform advocates who argue that the proposed legal therapeutic model for psilocybin would threaten equitable access to entheogens. Original Article (Marijuana Moment):Oregon psilocybin initiative gets boost from new TV ad but draws opposition from unlikely sourceArtwork Fair Use: Ytzen
[Entheogenic molecules of diverse variations] can be found in over 200 species of mushrooms, most of which grow wild… …originally began in the wild, growing naturally in forests, fields, and deserts. Original Article (The Week):8 drugs that exist in natureArtwork Fair Use: Olaf Tausch
“Listen, if you’re a mushroom, you live cheap.” In 1976, the McKenna brothers published a small book that provided “precise, no-fail instructions for growing and preserving the magic mushroom”. “If you don’t have a plan, you become part of someone else’s plan.” Original Article (Vice):Psilocybin, the mushroom, and Terence McKennaArtwork Fair Use: Amanita77
The measure does set up a two-year development period that will cost a small sum [the financial impact during the two-year development period, which runs through December of 2022, is estimated to be $7.0 million General Fund to begin activities required under the Act according to the Department of Administrative Services] before the system of…
City Council voted unanimously Sept. 21 2020 in favor of a resolution declaring… …that authorities won’t investigate and arrest anyone for planting, cultivating, buying, transporting, distributing, engaging in practices with or possessing “entheogenic plants” [ayahusaca, psilocybin mushrooms, iboga, etc], or plant compounds. Original Article (AP & MSN):City of Ann Arbor decriminalizes psychedelic plants and fungiArtwork…
The Ann Arbor policy change stands out as an example of how the messaging behind these local reforms can have an impact beyond the individual jurisdiction it directly applies to. “I support the decriminalization of entheogenic plants. I believe the War on Drugs has been an abject failure, and I see no reason to criminalize—or…
Mushrooms have been popular in this part of the world since the 1960s, when native Oregonian Ken Kesey spread the gospel… it’s important to remember that, [for example], …ayahuasca and other natural compounds were first used by Indigenous people. “Of all the things I could be doing to help people get through this time, I…
“This resolution is about restoring our connection to ourselves and restoring connection to nature,” she said. “What this resolution does is it directs our police department to deemphasize enforcement of these laws, much like we did in the ’70s with regard to marijuana,” said Council Member Jack Eaton, D-4th Ward. When a grassroots group of…
…seminal research studies on the mushrooms themselves serves as a reminder of the intricacies and adaptability of nature. …study analyzed the amounts of psilocybin and psilocin in P. cubensis grown under three conditions: bright, indirect lighting, dim lighting, and in the dark… The analyses were done using GC-MS (gas chromatography-mass spectrometry)… Knowing that the amounts of light and…
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