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Magic mushrooms may soon be legal in Oregon
nypost.com/ ^ | 12/4/18 | Natalie O'Neill

Posted on 12/05/2018 2:57:13 AM PST by a little elbow grease

“Magic mushrooms” may soon become legal in Oregon, where even powerful politicians seem high — on the idea, according to a report.

The state’s attorney general green-lit language allowing the bill to hit the ballots in 2020, assuming advocates get enough signatures, according to Oregonlive.com

If it passes, the initiative would decriminalize hallucinogenic mushrooms and allow them to be manufactured with a license. Oregon would become the first US state to legalize the drug.

The bill will need 140,000 signatures in order to appear on the ballots in the 2020 general election, the paper reported.

Nationwide, possession of psychedelic mushrooms — and their active compound, psilocybin — is a felony. But advocates say the trippy treat can help boost spirituality, fight depression and even help terminally ill patients cope with death.

“The intent of the 2020 Psilocybin Service Initiative of Oregon is to advance a breakthrough therapeutic model currently being perfected in research settings at top universities around the world,” Tom and Sheri Eckert, who are leading the petition, wrote on the campaign’s website.

Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum declined to comment to the paper.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: addiction; freedom; medicine; mushroomslegal; nannystate; oregon; plants; potheads
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To: a little elbow grease
"LSD/mushrooms/psilocybin DO NOT DENY REALITY. Quite the opposite. They expose reality over time. "

BULLSHIT!!! WATCHING PURPLE BRICKS MELT OUT OF A WALL IS NOT REALITY.

There are too many survivors of the '60s around here to sell that myth. I'm personally FOR the idea, only because it will be easy to convince users that they can fly off a water tower...

"Aim for the concrete, it will cushion you..."
"Use a gun, it will open your mind up..."
"Vote democrat. They are for the working man..."

81 posted on 12/05/2018 6:33:17 AM PST by jonascord (First rule of the Dunning-Kruger Club is that you do not know you are in the Dunning-Kruger club.)
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To: LouAvul; bk1000; VietVet876; Basket_of_Deplorables; 1FreeAmerican
"And take all your stoner buddies with you. Your ilk have destroyed wonderful places like Durango, CO. And, what is it with you stupid libertarians? You come onto a conservative forum, infesting it like a bunch of cockroaches? Leave. Please leave."

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Why are people like you (apparently) so aggressive and ignorant?

I merely posted a story about Oregon and a future possible referendum there. I have no dog in that race. Do you understand?

JUST BECAUSE PEOPLE POST A STORY doesn't mean they are "for or against"anything. Sometimes they are just trying to initiate discussion. Are you able to understand that?

Why are you people (apparently) so aggressive and ignorant? Do you have a pebble in your shoe?

82 posted on 12/05/2018 6:36:53 AM PST by a little elbow grease (Duct tape and cable ties have more worth than pussy hats and resistance.)
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To: a little elbow grease

Bad trip, eh?

Ehrlich on “Silicon Valley” had a bad trip once. He ate a few mushrooms and was heading out to the desert to think things over ...... and he looked up in his car and saw a never-ending traffic jam in front of him! LOL


Must have been on the I-15 heading in to Vegas


83 posted on 12/05/2018 6:37:36 AM PST by nevadapatriot
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To: a little elbow grease

It is best to know which ones are the right ones. A buddy once brought some over for my opinion. They were the wrong ones. He had them in a plastic bag overnight, where they had secreted a hideous black juice pulsating with maggots. I told him they were not the right ones. He agreed, in that he tried them the night before with unsatisfactory results.

I don’t think they grow in deer poop. I was always told it had to be black angus cow poop. We would find grocery bags full at this one field down home on a sunny day after a good rain. Those are, however, not the only mushrooms prevalent in pasture pastries, so know before you go!


84 posted on 12/05/2018 6:38:36 AM PST by bk1000 (I stand with Trump)
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To: Basket_of_Deplorables
Truly remarkable stuff, for many people of high intellegence. That said, if you are the naturally fearful , weak-willed type (i.e., a believer in “demonic possesion” nonsense), you probably want to avoid the stuff. You will definitely have a bad trip. Self-fulfilling. It can be a mirror of your psychosis. ---

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So true.

85 posted on 12/05/2018 6:39:15 AM PST by a little elbow grease (Duct tape and cable ties have more worth than pussy hats and resistance.)
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To: a little elbow grease

LOL! Some were born here. Some of us got here in a round about way. I’m just happy to have survived a somewhat misspent youth and ended up here.


86 posted on 12/05/2018 6:43:16 AM PST by bk1000 (I stand with Trump)
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To: jonascord
"I'm personally FOR the idea, only because it will be easy to convince users that they can fly off a water tower..."

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..... pretty funny.

Maybe you could dive through that 6 inches of ice on our back pond and get that money at the bottom.

;-)

87 posted on 12/05/2018 6:43:52 AM PST by a little elbow grease (Duct tape and cable ties have more worth than pussy hats and resistance.)
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To: jonascord
"WATCHING PURPLE BRICKS MELT OUT OF A WALL IS NOT REALITY."

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Is that your experience


88 posted on 12/05/2018 6:47:33 AM PST by a little elbow grease (Duct tape and cable ties have more worth than pussy hats and resistance.)
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To: a little elbow grease
Are you deliberately obtuse or genuinely disingenuous? You post an article about narcotics from some sewer out west then comment that you're heading west? Grow up. And leave. The implication was obvious.

You have me confused with someone who cares what you people think.

89 posted on 12/05/2018 6:47:40 AM PST by LouAvul (The most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will.)
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To: nevadapatriot

lol.......... it was one funny episode.


90 posted on 12/05/2018 6:48:24 AM PST by a little elbow grease (Duct tape and cable ties have more worth than pussy hats and resistance.)
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To: a little elbow grease
The Effects of Acid

https://drugabuse.com/library/effects-acid-lsd/

91 posted on 12/05/2018 6:49:53 AM PST by SVTCobra03 (You can never have enough friends, horsepower or ammunition.)
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To: bk1000
"I don’t think they grow in deer poop. I was always told it had to be black angus cow poop. We would find grocery bags full at this one field down home on a sunny day after a good rain. Those are, however, not the only mushrooms prevalent in pasture pastries, so know before you go!"

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LOL ....... thanks....... for that.

I'm gettin' pretty old, I wonder if my wife wants to get a couple of cows.

;-)

92 posted on 12/05/2018 6:50:56 AM PST by a little elbow grease (Duct tape and cable ties have more worth than pussy hats and resistance.)
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To: LouAvul
"You post an article about narcotics from some sewer out west then comment that you're heading west?"

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It was meant as a joke, kiddo. Is your voice low like your ...... ?

93 posted on 12/05/2018 7:01:47 AM PST by a little elbow grease (Duct tape and cable ties have more worth than pussy hats and resistance.)
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To: SVTCobra03
Your site is unavailable. ----- Good.

It was about drug abuse ......... NOT drug use. Foolish.

94 posted on 12/05/2018 7:05:07 AM PST by a little elbow grease (Duct tape and cable ties have more worth than pussy hats and resistance.)
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To: a little elbow grease
"Is that your experience "

Think it was Christmas Break from SIU, 1970. Went to a party with some pre-college friends. One of them was doing some Blue Dot acid, (Paper with a blue ink dot on it, and a drop of Whothehellknows.) "Purple bricks melting..." is a direct quote, with a weird look, as he drooled. I have that kind of memory.

Heard, later, that he tried to ride his brand new Kawasaki, stoned. Head on into a brick wall.

He wasn't missed.

Oregon stoners won't be missed, either. Anyone stupid enough to fiddlef#ck with their neurons, looking for some Higher Understanding, is disposable.

95 posted on 12/05/2018 7:15:36 AM PST by jonascord (First rule of the Dunning-Kruger Club is that you do not know you are in the Dunning-Kruger club.)
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To: a little elbow grease
I understand how you feel! I've learned that when I encounter this behavior on FR I just picture my crazy old uncle who has absolutely nothing to do, no memory to speak of, and mostly incapacitated clacking away on a keyboard (instead of sitting in the corner mumbling to himself). Makes me laugh every time!
96 posted on 12/05/2018 7:23:34 AM PST by 1FreeAmerican
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To: a little elbow grease
"I knew if I posted this Oregon story we'd read ignorant post after ignorant post. On LSD threads that I've seen and been part of over the years (I was here for ten years before I became 'a little elbow grease') ..... I have noticed that about 60 to 75 percent of the replies are from people who are ignorant of the facts. -- (I did not say 'stupid', I said 'ignorant'.) " Hang in there! Lots more people read than participate. They tend to be deep thinkers, imho. And a thick skin don't hurt 😉
97 posted on 12/05/2018 7:24:11 AM PST by Basket_of_Deplorables (Democrats: Party over Country.)
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To: Cvengr

“Reads as written by a deceiver who fully knows the depravity of their lonely vice and desperately seeks company into their oblivion.

Psychodelic drugs are forbidden in Scripture for believers, (PHARMAKEIA, Gal 5:20; Rev 21:8; Rev 9:21) and also associated with witchcraft.”

Reads as written by another high horse rider of the “follow the shoe!” brigade. Put it back in the barn, and take that log from your eye. Many of us niether share your beliefs, nor care to be proselytized by the God Squad.

(although I do have a ouiji board...)


98 posted on 12/05/2018 7:33:01 AM PST by Basket_of_Deplorables (Democrats: Party over Country.)
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To: a little elbow grease

People trying to feel wanted....anxious....fearful of life and expected death...wanting to belong...and seek a connection to a higher gentle power...and to answer the eternal how and whys....in the end...the compound alters the natural function of brain chemistry leading to enhancements and dimunition of brain perceptions and senses...but it is short lived and does NOT change external reality..nor is the experience always pleasant...It is the tide pod for complex adults. Oregonians you are poorly advised if it is widely used. Get ready for more chemically induced mishaps....like we dont have enough.


99 posted on 12/05/2018 7:33:42 AM PST by Getready (Wisdom is more valuable than gold and diamonds, and harder to find.)
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To: LouAvul

“And, what is it with you stupid libertarians? You come onto a conservative forum, infesting it like a bunch of cockroaches? Leave. Please leave.”

Don’t sugar coat it. Tell us how you really feel.


100 posted on 12/05/2018 7:37:47 AM PST by Basket_of_Deplorables (Democrats: Party over Country.)
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