Posted on 06/23/2019 5:58:33 PM PDT by plain talk
In May, Denver became the first city in the nation to decriminalize psilocybin mushrooms. Voters approved a ballot initiative by such a razor-thin margin that multiple news outlets initially reported that it had failed.
It was easier in Oakland. The City Council on June 4 approved its ordinance unanimously, with little pushback. Oakland even went a step further by decriminalizing not just mushrooms but also a range of other psychoactive plants and compounds including peyote, iboga and ayahuasca. The measure, which applies only to plant-based hallucinogens and not synthetic drugs such as LSD and MDMA, does not actually legalize natural psychedelics, which remain illegal under state and federal law.
To Plazola, theyre all just plants. He said his mushroom trip last fall was the result of deep soul searching. He had just turned 50 and had a variety of careers: politics, community organizing, real estate development. He was sort of bored. He did yoga and mediated often but felt mentally blocked. Then he read author Michael Pollans bestseller How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence. I was like, OK, I need to try mushrooms, Plazola said.
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Monkshood
Keep them sedated and encourage logic-free emotionalism to rule their thought process.
>>People should not be taking these compounds and be wandering around the busy streets of the city or driving, Grob said. They should be in a quiet, contained space, ideally being monitored by someone who is not in an altered state of consciousness.
The Manchurian Candidate - opening scene
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBDhoUZgsDo
As people grow older they tend to forget about the burnouts/waste-oids they used to know in schools.
Cheese, sausage, and extra mushrooms, please.
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FDA Puts Magic Mushroom Ingredient on Fast Track for Depression Treatment November 7, 2018
"The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently gave breakthrough therapy designation to a psilocybin-based drug being tested by COMPASS Pathways.
That means an accelerated research and approval process for a drug with strong preliminary evidence showing it would be a substantial improvement over currently available therapies.
The early studies have shown that psilocybin therapy can provide an immediate and sustained reduction in depression following a single treatment, Tracy Cheung, communications director for COMPASS Pathways, told Healthline. The effect has been described as psilocybin shaking the brain up like a snow globe, or rebooting the brain, providing new connections and deactivating connections that might have caused depression.
“concluding the Beatles #9 made sense.”
I missed that revelation, but one of the two times I took them I went and saw Beatles “Magical Mystery Tour” and it was really a bad movie.
No one referred to hemlock or poison ivy.
I did. So shut your yap.
Jefferson Airplane
Why mushrooms? Model glue is cheaper and stores better.
Magic mushrooms were legal in Japan until around 2002 . I used to take them in very moderate amounts . They made me feel quite happy and relaxed . No trip ; just a nice high . I’d like to feel like I did on mushrooms all day long .
I’ve eaten them twice within the past year. It was NOT an overwhelming,FREAKOUT experience. It was pleasant. I wouldn’t do them on a regular basis, but I’d do them again.
And, I’m convinced that if alcohol and weed had always been illegal, and we were voting for one of them to be legal, weed would win. Alcohol is without a doubt the more destructive, dangerous, deadly of the two.
America post America is quite a trip. I just watch our country slide into the toilet.
He does 5 g of mushrooms first time out of the box. Thats jumping into the deep end of the pool. My BS meter says Man the lifeboats.
Contains a deadly toxin and is not at all hallucinogenic. Nor has anyone ever used it as such.
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