DRUG ADDICTION TREATMENT AND RECOVERY ACT Whereas, Oregonians need adequate access to drug addiction treatment. Oregon ranks nearly last out of the 50 states in access...

One of the psychoactive mushrooms described by Gordon Wasson in LIFE magazine (1957) is today an endangered species. This article describes how mycologists located the fungus Conocybe siligeneoides in the Sierra Mazateca of Oaxaca (Mexico).

Face-eating zombies, bulletproof criminals, and rampant death of all involved. These seem to be among the most common media stories floated around when discussing...

In a historic election on Tuesday May 7, 2019, Denver, Colorado became the first city in the United States to decriminalize psilocybin mushrooms. The voter approved...

Almost a decade ago, Breaking Convention hosted the UK’s first-ever psychedelic conference at University of Kent (UK). Little did the organizers know, back then,...

A Statement of Concerns from the Psychedelic Bar Association regarding the proposed regulations governing the Oregon Psilocybin Service Act.

When Spaniards first arrived in the Americas, they encountered an array of mood altering substances, from tobacco, to chocolate, peyote, and ololiuqui. They debated...

Internal letter of recommendations We, the representatives of the Indigenous Peoples of the Juruá Valley — Apolima-Arara, Ashaninka, Huni Kuin, Jaminawa, Jaminawa-Arara, Kuntanawa, Nawa, Noke Koi, Nukini,...

Not-for-profit organizations, like MAPS and Usona Institute, are just a few years away from completing FDA trials to medicalize psychedelic therapy. As psychedelic research gets closer to medicalization, for-profit companies, like COMPASS institute and ATAI Life Sciences, have filed patents about psilocybin, MDMA, and DMT. The author describes how for-profit’s patent claims and capitalism are impacting the psychedelic renaissance -- a movement with origins of psychedelic research in the 1960s, the summer of love, and healing for all.

Jon Dennis provides a thorough guide to the Community Practitioner Framework for psilocybin services under the Oregon Psilocybin Services Act. The primer includes a history of the framework, highlights of the framework, and an overview of the Oregon Department of Justice memo.