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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The chocolate is it.
“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.”
Pleasant in the word . If I could get my hands on some I’d be able to cut alcohol consumption by 75% . ^_^
Okay, fine.........
How about toad licking?
Happy now?
Would you be happy if some idiot took your moronic post seriously and died from eating some Aconite flowers?
No, but it would prove that Darwin was right
About what I would expect from someone who just makes crap up.
And what exactly did I make up?
You brought up toxic plants and I added to your list.
You called me, moronic.
I thought personal attacks were frown on here, obviously not.
#28. Re you taking some drugs and you “went and saw Beatles “Magical Mystery Tour” and it was really a bad movie.
The next time, try seeing it in a theater instead of on clouds. You’ll get better Technicolor and the film won’t seem wavy.
Medications were originally mostly all botanical, so it is no shock that a plant, herb, mushroom etc. could have significant biological and therapeutic effects. Sometimes though, the fact that something is ‘from a plant’ gives people the idea that it is innocuous. This is definitely not true, and people need to be careful about anything they put in their bodies.
I is also not surprising that psilocybin could have a therapeutic effect on depression. So does electroconvulsive therapy for some people. The thing to remember is that it IS a powerful drug, and anything that alters brain chemistry can have bad as well as good effects.
If you can’t deal with life kill the brain you go Denver.
What could go wrong thousands of homeless people give thumbs up.
Learn the language, or to reason, or both. Is it too much for a patriot to set an example? Assimilate.
What could go wrong?
You added Monkshood to a list of hallucinogenics. It's not.
You brought up toxic plants ...
No, I didn't. I corrected your erroneous assertion about Monkshood.
... and I added to your list.
No, you didn't you added toads. Toads are not plants.
You called me, moronic.
I was more on target than I first thought.
I thought personal attacks were frown on here, obviously not.
Obviously not. Smart ass replies tend to negate that rule.
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