Politics

Psilocybin Service Initiative of Oregon

*What’s striking is the alleviation of depression occurs from emotional receptivity being enhanced – the opposite of SSRI antidepressants. Despite the recent renaissance of psychedelic science, psilocybin still languishes on the DEA’s “Schedule I” – a kind of political prison for drugs which, according to the DEA, have “no therapeutic value” and a “high potential…

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Modern Culture

A new front opens up: psychoactive mushroom decriminalization in Denver

It’s a new front in the crucial struggle to roll back the horror that is psychedelic prohibition.  There are now two fronts open. First, there is the laborious, time-intensive and money-intensive pathway to obtaining the federal government’s approval of psychedelic substances for marketing in interstate commerce (i.e. demonstrating to the satisfaction of the FDA that…

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Psychology

The Source Weekly Front Cover : Psych Trip

At this moment in time, the momentum seems to be moving in ECfES’ favor, toward a society that sees potential in psychedelics as a healing modality. “A good example of that is Kate Brown’s decision to sign HB 2355, a bill carried to the upper chamber by Sen. Jackie Winters, the longest-serving African-American woman in Oregon Senate…

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Magic mushrooms… entourage effect

…magic mushrooms contain multiple active ingredients…. However, to date, psilocybin research has [been]— myopically focusing on one single ingredient (psilocybin) rather than appreciating the synergistic combinations made by the mushrooms.  Mushrooms contain many different molecules.  Psilocybin [ingested, converts to psilocin]… the active chemical that is responsible for much of –but not all of–the psychoactivity in…

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Politics

The whole fungus: developed

Party members in Canada overwhelmingly vote for decriminalizing drugs. It’s likely a first for North America. The City of Vancouver, BC has officially recommended that the Government of Canada “immediately” decriminalize the personal possession of all drugs, including hard drugs like cocaine and heroin. Decriminalization is a relatively simple process. It would involve removing sections…

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Biography/Memoir

The whole fungus : history ought not to repeat.

South America 1599 – Marching inland, [Governer of Santa Marta] Juan Guiral Velon attempted to vanquish an entire civilization [Tairona]. In the midst of the carnage, the Spaniards never forgot their ultimate mission.  United States 2018 – Jeff Sessions Drug War “Power Grab” Bill, SITSA, if passes, would give him have unchecked power to ban drugs [and plants] and…

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Science

Scientists are finally set to mass-produce the active compound found in magic mushrooms

“Our findings set the stage for heterologous production of [psilocybin] in a controlled place for pharmaceutical purposes, using engineered microbial hosts, should the re-discovered pharmaceutical value lead to increased demands,” the researchers write in their report. After four decades of virtually ignoring the science of psychedelics, researchers tentatively returned to investigating how substances such as…

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Science

Brain scientists meet to share data on magic mushrooms…

About 500 brain experts from 29 countries are attending the group’s annual meeting, CNS 2018 (27th Annual Computational Neuroscience Meeting), which has been jointly organized by the Allen Institute for Brain Science and the University of Washington. [An] experiment took advantage of functional MRI brain scans to document how psilocybin changed brain activity. The psychedelic drug reduced the activity of…

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