DEA Administrator Anne Milgram did not respond to interview requests for this story. DEA spokesperson Katherine Pfaff wrote in a separate e-mail… that “we will respectfully decline this opportunity.” …the DEA issued a “standard knee-jerk response,” Tucker says… Thomas Prevoznik, a DEA deputy assistant administrator, wrote that the administration “has no authority to waive any…
“…if we can help people suffering from PTSD, depression, trauma, and addiction – including veterans, cancer patients, and others – supervised psilocybin therapy is a treatment worthy of further consideration,” says Oregon Governor Kate Brown. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has designated psilocybin therapy as “breakthrough therapy” for treatment-resistant depression and major depressive disorder…
A team out of Vancouver… led by Dr. Robert Hancock… University of British Columbia (UBC) microbiologist and Canada Research Chair Holder in Health and Genomics, has created a… process they expect will bring that cost under $100 a gram by the end of 2022. “It’s a game changer that allows for rapid, stable and cost-effective…
The practice of taking high doses of magic mushrooms to aid with mental wellness has been in vogue for some years now. As news of the psychedelic renaissance in mental healthcare seeped out from niche wellness blogs and into the mainstream, the question many people found themselves asking was: how do I get some? by…
The DEA declined to comment for this story. …one of two terminally ill patients seeking access to psilocybin under Right to Try, a federal law and an array of state laws meant to grant people facing death access to experimental drugs outside of a clinical trial… the court’s decision left the issue at a “crossroads,”…
[“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…
For one hour, board members and Oregon Health Authority officials met privately with attorneys from the state’s Department of Justice (DOJ). Journalists were permitted to attend if they vowed not to report what they saw, but the public was excluded. …the board proposing rules for Oregon’s nascent psilocybin industry held a second-to-last meeting before making…
Oregon is so far the only state to legalize the… use of psilocybin… Butler, who lives in the Salt Lake City suburbs, is among military veterans in several U.S. states helping to persuade lawmakers to study psychedelic mushrooms for therapeutic use. The recently retired Green Beret had already tried antidepressants, therapy and a support dog.…
Despite being the first state to allow recreational pot sales, Colorado still doesn’t have protections in place for people who are denied jobs or fired for off-duty cannabis consumption or testing positive for THC. But if House Bill 1152 passes as currently written, recreational cannabis use off the clock would no longer be a fireable offense, and…
…persistent stereotypes inflate the public perception of drug use among unhoused people far beyond reality, and suggest that illicit drug use has only one trajectory: the downward spiral… there are practical reasons, too, for homeless people’s specific choices of drugs. Stimulants, for example, may help people to stay awake at night when it is most…
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