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How a trip on magic mushrooms helped decriminalize psychedelic plants in a California city
LA Times ^ | June 22, 2019 | Hailey Branson-Potts

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, they’re 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 Pollan’s 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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To: VTenigma

Monkshood


21 posted on 06/23/2019 6:44:23 PM PDT by Keyhopper (Indians had bad immigration laws)
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To: HighSierra5
Another way to pacify the population and control them.

Keep them sedated and encourage logic-free emotionalism to rule their thought process.

22 posted on 06/23/2019 6:47:07 PM PDT by Lizavetta
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To: babble-on

>>“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


23 posted on 06/23/2019 6:49:55 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Committee)
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To: plain talk
Exploring The Abyss (Terence McKenna)
24 posted on 06/23/2019 6:50:24 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: plain talk

As people grow older they tend to forget about the burnouts/waste-oids they used to know in schools.


25 posted on 06/23/2019 6:52:08 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Committee)
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To: plain talk
Loved this movie. Watch it if you get the chance
26 posted on 06/23/2019 6:59:04 PM PDT by dontreadthis (A TIMELINE OF TREASON on Profile Page)
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To: CtBigPat
There is extensive evidence that psilocybin is effective at treating PTSD and depression.

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.”

27 posted on 06/23/2019 7:00:58 PM PDT by Karl Spooner
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To: Rebelbase

“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.


28 posted on 06/23/2019 7:02:53 PM PDT by be-baw
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To: CtBigPat
Back in the sixties you could get a dose of LSD from Sandoz pharmaseuticles through a psychytrist. Shortly after 7:30 one morning a half a dozen years ago,* I entered the well-furnished research studio of a medical research foundation in California conducting experiments with the powerful, newly discovered psychedelic drug LSD-25. I had prepared for my $500 session for several weeks by reading the accounts of the experiences of others before me who had had the all-day medically supervised, mind-expanding experience. Present with me for my session was a young male psychologist and a female medical doctor whom I had met earlier during psychological tests and counseling interviews. The session room in the clinic was attractively furnished---a large hi-fi at one end, carpets, couches, and comfortable chairs, beautiful iridescent curtains, religious paintings and works of art tastefully arranged. The curtains had been closed and the lights dimmed to a soft glow.
29 posted on 06/23/2019 7:03:33 PM PDT by the_daug
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To: coaster123

No one referred to hemlock or poison ivy.

I did. So shut your yap.


30 posted on 06/23/2019 7:11:47 PM PDT by logitech
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To: babble-on
White Rabbit

Jefferson Airplane

31 posted on 06/23/2019 7:15:26 PM PDT by Deaf Smith (When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's fore sure)
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To: plain talk
"OK, I need to try mushrooms"

Why mushrooms? Model glue is cheaper and stores better.

32 posted on 06/23/2019 7:52:39 PM PDT by fini
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To: plain talk

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 .


33 posted on 06/23/2019 8:12:11 PM PDT by sushiman (i)
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To: tet68
Perhaps a bit egg-headed and off-topic but worth a listen...

Terence McKenna - Permitting Smart People to Hope
34 posted on 06/23/2019 8:29:29 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: sushiman

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.


35 posted on 06/23/2019 8:33:59 PM PDT by ALASKA (Watching an attempted coup by a thousand cuts....)
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To: Deaf Smith

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ASCkWnxlfUA

“Close those peepers....”


36 posted on 06/23/2019 8:47:28 PM PDT by gundog ( Hail to the Chief, bitches!)
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To: plain talk

America post America is quite a trip. I just watch our country slide into the toilet.


37 posted on 06/23/2019 8:51:17 PM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: plain talk

He does 5 g of mushrooms first time out of the box. That’s jumping into the deep end of the pool. My BS meter says ‘Man the lifeboats’.


38 posted on 06/23/2019 8:55:18 PM PDT by Hoosier-Daddy ("Washington, DC. You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious")
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To: fini
Carbona not Glue 1:57
39 posted on 06/23/2019 8:59:11 PM PDT by rawcatslyentist ("All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing")
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To: Keyhopper
Monkshood

Contains a deadly toxin and is not at all hallucinogenic. Nor has anyone ever used it as such.

40 posted on 06/23/2019 9:23:53 PM PDT by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason.)
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