Magic mushrooms may soon be legal in Oregon

nypost.com/ ^ | 12/4/18 | Natalie O'Neill

[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.

[Big Red Badger]

Deer poop Mushrooms,,,
Getting Weird.

[Osage Orange]

Glad they don’t hate cigars...........

[Yaelle]

Micro dosing is actually helping people. It can be the exact opposite of “getting wasted.”

[Yaelle]

Good post. Making nature illegal takes some serious Gd-delusions.

[LouAvul]

Too blunt? We just passed the medical pot law here in OK. The referendum was handled with paper ballots literally in the trunks of volunteer campaign worker's cars. Little to no oversight and the whole charade was stolen by, you guessed it, liebertarians.

Now we're seeing cheesy little pot shops opening up everywhere. Exactly the way it happened in that now dump, Colorado.

Want to see where this leads? Go to Durango.

"The plunge into the Abyss began with small steps."

[a little elbow grease]

"Micro dosing is actually helping people. It can be the exact opposite of “getting wasted.”"

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I don't know if this applies to what you said or not, but:

When I was using LSD type things back in the early 70's, window pane, orange sunshine, blotter, whatever ... when everyone else was taking a "whole hit", I never did. I used to use a half or even less (sometimes with blotter I could cut off about a quarter of one and play semi-pro baseball. That was a trip) There are lots of really cool stories about playing high quality baseball while tripping. Ask Doc Ellis.)

The results of a smaller dose were very similar, but much more controllable.

As I said earlier, I started after college, after my Army Security Agency duty, and after doing a lot of reading on the drug. (see post # 35)

ps --- I hated being with people who even used the word "wasted". I spent my life with an athletic, high intelligence small group of guys and women. No one in our little crowd was a loser who enjoyed being out of control. It was frowned upon. We did it to learn and have some fun. Life was bigger as a result.

[a little elbow grease]

Yes, but what about those snow flakes under the night street light?

;-)

[a little elbow grease]

"Thirty to forty year ago in the summer here we ALMOST tried some of the mushrooms growing out of that poop. But, we backed off and bought some from a friend at Carnegie Mellon University ......"

Turns out those mushrooms on the deer poop pile were not magic.

;-)

[a little elbow grease]

"I’ve had my day of experimenting and dabbling during my misspent youth, and will say that all these psychoactive substances being legalized is going to bring the crazy out of the woodwork, as if Portland isn’t already nutty enough.

Some people just cannot handle it, and those who have preexisting psychological issues, latent psychosis, etcetera, should not even be partaking in marijuana, let alone psilocybin mushrooms.

The barely repressed crazy is going to really cut loose when they do, and they may not ever get it bottled up again."

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I just wanted to post your very wise post one more time. You sum up the situation well.

Thanks

[ifinnegan]

“Those colors are always there. Some folks just never get to see them.”

No, the colors are not there ever.

It’s a subjective experience due to distorting normal neuronal processing with toxins.

Others may see only black or hear sounds etc...

Your “wow isn’t everything so beautiful” is a mindset of a juvenile who smoked pot or took mushrooms for the first time.

Laughable.

Back in the day I did not understand Richard Schultes comment that these drugs and experiences were no big deal.

You’ve made it in to your religion.

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I’m curious, why aren’t you a liberal?

[ifinnegan]

“There are too many survivors of the ‘60s around here to sell that myth.”

I know. That’s what’s so funny about these disruptors.

And it’s not just the 60’s. It’s 70’s, 80’s, 90’s.

Use of these drugs has become more widespread than in the 60’s with the passage of time.

[RegulatorCountry]

People are conservative as far as governance for many reasons. Not all are social conservatives. I’d think you’d have noticed this before now.

[gathersnomoss]

Far out, man.

[gathersnomoss]

Silly Simon is back in town.

[ifinnegan]

“as if Portland isn’t already nutty enough. Some people just cannot handle it, and those who have preexisting psychological issues, latent psychosis, etcetera, should not even be partaking in marijuana, let alone psilocybin mushrooms. The barely repressed crazy is going to really cut loose when they do, and they may not ever get it bottled up again.”

It’s perfect for the liberals because it will just show the need for more socialism on all levels.

“These hurting people need help”

[ifinnegan]

Perfect example the kind of pseudoscience people believe when they ruin their brain with drugs (and done people will naturally believe it)

Drugs make people animists.

[a little elbow grease]

Your reply was around 100 words too long.

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Advice to you, ifinagain: "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool .... than to speak and to remove all doubt."

[ifinnegan]

“Micro dosing is actually helping people.”

Citation?

These media hypes and fads are usually nothing.

To extent here could be something there, I’d think that the drug Albert Hoffman later developed called Hydergine would probably be a better idea.

[a little elbow grease]

"Back in the day I did not understand Richard Schultes comment that these drugs and experiences were no big deal.

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LOL......... that's why Schultes told Burroughs that he saw all sorts of colors and patterns when on ayahuasca.

LMAO

[a little elbow grease]

"done people"

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My, you are extremely literate. /s