Shaman Shu says ayahuasca told him to write Proposal E during his first experience… “I wrote the actual legislation based upon what the ancestors told me to do,” he says. “I was sitting in Costa Rica and I was like, ‘What? You want me to do, what?’ I never expected that… I hired a lawyer,…
Hodges said his church, which has nearly 92,000 members, is accepting new members only at its original location in Oakland. Dave Hodges, the founder of Zide Door… his organization is not relying on the Board of Supervisors’ 2022 resolution for legal protection and is instead relying on the federal government’s First Amendment right to freedom…
What led our prehistoric ancestors to these powerful plants and fungi, and why did they use them over and over? It would be very easy to project contemporary desires onto them: to battle depression or escape everyday life; to heal wounds, both physical and mental; to get high and just feel good; to self-medicate; to…
University of Michigan and Columbia University; scientists report that the use of non-LSD hallucinogens in the United States nearly doubled between 2018 and 2021 among young adults under the age of 30. In 2018, the prevalence of young adults who used hallucinogens other than LSD over the prior year was 3.4 percent. By 2021, that…
…SoMa facility is no ordinary chapel: it’s the second location of the Church of Ambrosia… a nondenominational religious organization that believes… psilocybin mushrooms are divine sacraments… an interfaith organization dedicated to expanding public access to psychedelic mushrooms… …magic mushrooms have been a part of religious practices around the globe for thousands of years… any adult…
The “sacred mushrooms,” as the church often calls them, are a Schedule I controlled substance that can carry a punishment of up to three years for possession, but registered 508(c)(1)(a) churches like Psanctuary [non-profit religious organization] have certain legal protections they say allow them to use mushrooms in controlled worship contexts. “We believe that Sacred…
The findings are an affirmation of the knowledge and use of plants as drugs among prehistoric Europeans, says ethnobotanist Giorgio Samorini, an expert on psychoactive substances… in a study published… in the journal Scientific Reports, researchers confirm that chemical signatures in the secreted samples of Es Càrritx hair provide the first direct evidence for hallucinogenic drug use in…
“So whenever I talk about psychedelics, I always include cannabis. My husband likes to call it the people’s psychedelic. It’s much more available. You can grow it yourself, although I would make a case that you can also grow mushrooms yourself, which maybe is — would also be the people’s psychedelic,” said Julie Holland, M.D.…
…things about our relationship with visionary drugs: it’s incalculably old, globally pervasive, and rich with meaning… in 2005, two peyote “buttons” (the crown of the peyote cactus) recovered from Shumla Cave in southwest Texas were radiocarbon dated to 3780-3660 BC. Later analysis by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry detected the naturally occurring psychedelic compound mescaline in both…
City council meetings have become key forums for rolling back the drug war… Current laws must change, agrees the psychedelic movement. But what to replace them with is a hot debate. In Oregon [which] now regulates psilocybin as an… [adult use] tool… for example. Some Decriminalize Nature advocates opposed the measure because of barriers to who can…
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