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  • Detroit church selling magic mushrooms faces vandalism amid legal battle

    12/21/2023 4:33:35 PM PST · by nickcarraway · 6 replies
    CBS News ^ | DECEMBER 8, 2023 | ANDRES GUTIERREZ
    Padlocks apparently didn't stop vandals from breaking into a northwest Detroit church that was selling magic mushrooms. On Friday morning, the head of Soul Tribes Ministries, Robert Shumake "Shaman Shu," showed the Commanding Officer of Detroit Police Department's 8th precinct, Dietrich Lever, damage that was allegedly done while the property was supposed to be under lock and key by the City of Detroit. "They took the copper off the roof. They took the Sloane valves out of the toilet and left the water running, so I don't know how long it had been running; if it was a week or...
  • Brookline Teenager Who Had ‘Magic Mushrooms’ Jumped From 6th-Story Window: Police

    12/20/2023 4:59:41 PM PST · by nickcarraway · 31 replies
    Boston Herald ^ | December 20, 2023 | Ricjk Sobey
    A Brookline teen was severely injured after he had “magic mushrooms” and jumped from a sixth-story window, according to police who arrested a drug dealer accused of targeting local kids. Brookline Police are now warning parents after this incident and the arrest of a 22-year-old man in Brookline Village. Based on a tip, Brookline detectives began investigating a suspected drug dealer who goes by the name Niko. He was allegedly selling drugs to underage teens. Some of the products were purchased at local marijuana dispensaries, where Niko allegedly bought the products that are legal for those 21-plus. Many students at...
  • San Francisco Gets a Magic Mushroom Church That Actually Feels Like a Church

    10/29/2023 11:17:46 AM PDT · by nickcarraway · 8 replies
    The San Francisco Standard ^ | Oct. 29, 2023 | Astrid Kane
    For the last 18 months or so, a new organization has been tabling on the sidewalk in San Francisco’s Castro District, distributing wisdom to passers-by. Called the Church of Cosmic Consciousness, its gospel deals with an increasingly common path to spiritual growth: so-called magic mushrooms. The church recently rented a brick-and-mortar on the corner of 18th and Ord streets, a few blocks uphill from rainbow flag-filled Castro Street. It’s a bit different from the Bay Area’s other mushroom churches. The firmly established Zide Door, with locations in East Oakland and SoMa, is ambitious in scope and guarded by fearsome security....
  • Off-duty pilot charged with 83 counts of attempted murder after allegedly trying to shut off engines midflight on Alaska Airlines

    10/24/2023 6:24:26 AM PDT · by Twotone · 46 replies
    The Blaze ^ | October 23, 2023 | Carlos Garcia
    An off-duty pilot allegedly tried to shut off the engines on an Alaska Airlines plane while it was on its way to San Francisco, police said. The plane on Flight 2059 was travelling from Everett, Washington, but had to be diverted to Portland, Oregon, after the incident. Horizon Air, a subsidiary of Alaska Airlines, said the presence of a "credible threat" in the jump seat of the cockpit’s flight deck. "The jump seat occupant unsuccessfully attempted to disrupt the operation of the engines," read a statement from the airline. "The Horizon Captain and First Officer quickly responded, engine power was...
  • Mental health therapy breakthrough coming to Hawaii

    08/30/2023 4:39:21 AM PDT · by Oldeconomybuyer · 21 replies
    KHON2-TV ^ | August 29, 2023
    HONOLULU — The state is looking into the safe use of breakthrough therapies which include the use of psilocybin, also known as magic mushrooms. The state has created the “breakthrough therapies task force” made of up mental health professionals, physicians, lawmakers, and government leaders. Their job is to help the state expand therapeutic access to two substances — psilocybin and MDMA. The state says research shows both have been effective in treating ptsd, addiction, and depression.
  • Use of hallucinogens like mushrooms, PCP doubles among young adults, study finds

    06/12/2023 6:13:44 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 6 replies
    UPI ^ | JUNE 9, 2023 / 2:36 PM | By Cara Murez, HealthDay News
    Researchers found that between 2018 and 2021, U.S. adults aged 19 to 30 increased their use of mescaline, peyote, psilocybin ("magic mushrooms") and PCP, though not LSD. Photo by Hans/Pixabay Young American adults have doubled their use of non-LSD hallucinogens in just a few years, a new report warns. Researchers found that between 2018 and 2021, U.S. adults aged 19 to 30 increased their use of mescaline, peyote, psilocybin ("magic mushrooms") and PCP, though not LSD. The prevalence of young adults' past-year use of these drugs was 3.4% in 2018, but it hit 6.6% in 2021. "However, the prevalence of...
  • A Cautionary Tale: Magic Mushrooms and Hiking Don’t Mix

    04/15/2023 1:52:38 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 12 replies
    Backpacker ^ | APRIL 13, 2023 | Adam Roy
    A group of hikers in England got so ill from taking mushrooms that a search and rescue team had to retrieve them. And they're not the first psychedelic enthusiasts to have a trip go wrong on the trail.Every hiker has had a bad trip before. But a group of hikers in England’s Lake District gave the term new meaning last week, when they got so ill from taking magic mushrooms that they needed rescue. On April 8, the Keswick Mountain Rescue Team received a number of calls from walkers who had encountered “a group of young adult males who had...
  • Journalists in D.C. 'taking psychedelic mushrooms' for startling reason

    08/01/2022 5:45:05 AM PDT · by Jan_Sobieski · 49 replies
    WND ^ | 07/31/2022 | Staff
    Many journalists in Washington, D.C. are taking small doses of psychedelic mushrooms to improve their performance, according to Politico.A 2020 D.C. ballot initiative made enforcement of bans on the purchase and distribution of psychedelic mushrooms the lowest priority of law enforcement, making the substance “basically legal,” according to Politico. The substance is used recreationally in full doses as well as in smaller “microdoses,” which some believe can improve brain function.“Microdosing mushrooms as a kind of performance-enhancing brain boost — already wildly popular among the California tech set — is now fairly common in Washington, especially in media circles,” the Politico...
  • Detroit Votes to Decriminalize Psychedelic Mushrooms

    11/05/2021 3:28:22 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 57 replies
    CBS News ^ | NOVEMBER 4, 2021 | Caitlyn O'Kane
    Detroit voters decriminalized therapeutic mushrooms – also known as psychedelic or "magic" mushrooms. On Election Day Tuesday, voters were asked to vote on Proposal E, which would make "the personal possession and therapeutic use of entheogenic plants by adults the city's lowest law-enforcement priority." The measure passed with 61.08% of the vote. Detroit is not the only city to decriminalize the substance, called psilocybin, which can be used to treat a variety of psychological issues, including depression, although scientists are still doing research. Last year, voters in another Michigan city, Ann Arbor, also voted to decriminalize psychedelic plants, as did...
  • Psychedelic Magic Mushroom Compound, Psilocybin, Performs at Least As Well as Leading Antidepressant

    04/16/2021 9:22:01 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 72 replies
    https://scitechdaily.com ^ | APRIL 14, 2021 | By IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON
    Psilocybe cyanescens mushrooms, which contain the active compound, psilocybin. Credit: Imperial College London / Thomas Angus ======================================================= Psilocybin, the active compound in magic mushrooms, may be at least as effective as a leading antidepressant medication in a therapeutic setting. This is the finding of a study carried out by researchers at the Centre for Psychedelic Research at Imperial College London. In the most rigorous trial to date assessing the therapeutic potential of a ‘psychedelic’ compound, researchers compared two sessions of psilocybin therapy with a six-week course of a leading antidepressant (a selective serotonin uptake inhibitor called escitalopram) in 59 people...
  • The "Stoned Ape" Hypothesis Might Explain Extraordinary Leap in Evolution

    04/05/2020 12:27:49 PM PDT · by wildbill · 49 replies
    Inverse via Pocket ^ | 4/5/2020 | Sarah Sloat
    EVeryone knows the standard explanation of evolution but the rapid jump from Homo Erectus to Homo Sapiens has no satisfactory answers. A more radical interpretation of these events involves the same animals, dung, and plants but also includes psychedelic drugs. In 1992, ethnobotanist and psychedelics advocate Terence McKenna argued in the book Food of the Gods that what enabled Homo erectus to evolve into Homo sapiens was its encounter with magic mushrooms and psilocybin, the psychedelic compound within them, on that evolutionary journey. He called this the Stoned Ape Hypothesis. McKenna posited that psilocybin caused the primitive brain’s information-processing capabilities...
  • Denver could make history with vote on 'magic mushrooms'

    05/07/2019 7:58:18 PM PDT · by LouAvul · 63 replies
    Voters on Tuesday were deciding whether to make Denver the first U.S. city to decriminalize psilocybin — the psychoactive substance in "magic mushrooms" — and add a new chapter to the city's role in shaping wider drug policy. A citizen initiative on the ballot followed the same tack taken by marijuana activists to decriminalize pot possession in 2005 in the city. That move was followed by statewide legalization in 2012. A number of other states then broadly allowed marijuana use and sales by adults. Psilocybin decriminalization campaign organizers have said their only goal is to keep people out of jail...
  • Magic mushrooms can 'reset' depressed brain

    10/13/2017 5:48:34 PM PDT · by BenLurkin · 39 replies
    BBC ^ | James Gallagher
    The study, published in the journal Scientific Reports, showed psilocybin affected two key areas of the brain. The amygdala - which is heavily involved in how we process emotions such as fear and anxiety - became less active. The greater the reduction, the greater the improvement in reported symptoms. The default-mode network - a collaboration of different brain regions - became more stable after taking psilocybin. Dr Robin Carhart-Harris, head of psychedelic research at Imperial, said the depressed brain was being "clammed up" and the psychedelic experience "reset" it. He told the BBC News website: "Patients were very ready to...
  • California initiative would legalize psychedelic mushrooms

    08/30/2017 7:53:54 PM PDT · by Olog-hai · 138 replies
    The Hill ^ | 08/30/17 04:10 PM EDT | Reid Wilson
    California would become the first state in the nation to legalize psychedelic mushrooms if a long-shot ballot initiative passes muster with voters next year. The measure is backed by a legalization activist who says he kicked his heroin habit with the help of a mushroom trip in Death Valley. It would exempt Californians over the age of 21 from a state law that criminalizes mushrooms containing psilocybin, the compound that gives some mushrooms psychedelic properties. […] … California is one of eight states where voters have legalized marijuana for recreational use, and Saunders said legalizing psilocybin-bearing mushrooms is the logical...
  • 'Magic mushroom' psychedelic may ease anxiety, depression

    11/30/2016 9:56:36 PM PST · by Olog-hai · 42 replies
    Associated Press ^ | Dec 1, 2016 12:07 AM EST | Malcolm Ritter
    The psychedelic drug in “magic mushrooms” can quickly and effectively help treat anxiety and depression in cancer patients, an effect that may last for months, two small studies show. It worked for Dinah Bazer, who endured a terrifying hallucination that rid her of the fear that her ovarian cancer would return. And for Estalyn Walcoff, who says the drug experience led her to begin a comforting spiritual journey. The work released Thursday is preliminary and experts say more definitive research must be done on the effects of the substance, called psilocybin. But the record so far shows “very impressive results,”...
  • Magic mushroom drugs could treat severe depression

    04/07/2013 10:47:57 AM PDT · by Jyotishi · 46 replies
    DNA ^ | Sunday, April 7, 2013 | ANI
    Drugs made from magic mushrooms could help treat people with severe depression, a new study suggests. Scientists believe that the chemical psilocybin, the psychedelic ingredient in magic mushrooms, can turn down parts of the brain that are overactive in severely depressive patients, the Guardian reported. The drug appears to stop patients dwelling on themselves and their own perceived inadequacies. However, a bid by British scientists to carry out trials of psilocybin on patients in order to assess its full medical potential has been blocked by red tape relating to Britain’s strict drugs laws. Professor David Nutt, professor of neuropsychopharmacology at...
  • Police: Teen Shoots Self In Attempt To Wake Up From Shroom-Induced Nightmare

    07/06/2012 3:45:26 PM PDT · by null and void · 26 replies
    CBS Tampa ^ | July 6, 2012 8:39 AM
    DELAND, Fla. (CBS Tampa) – Deland authorities say a teenager shot himself in the head to wake up from a magic-mushroom induced nightmare. The Daytona Beach News-Journal reports that 17-year-old Steve Tilbury consumed several mushrooms, then drank a tea made from them, while with friends in his home. He told investigators that he fell asleep not long after his friends left. But when he awoke from his nap, he reportedly thought he was still stuck in his nightmare. “Tilbury said he woke up and it felt like it wasn’t real,” the deputy’s report states, adding that he felt trapped in his...
  • Magic mushrooms point to new depression drugs (Hope yet for Reid, Pelosi & Debbie Blabbermouth?)

    01/23/2012 6:57:34 PM PST · by NormsRevenge · 35 replies · 1+ views
    msnbc.com ^ | 1/23/12 | Reuters
    LONDON — The brains of people tripping on magic mushrooms have given the best picture yet of how psychedelic drugs work and British scientists say the findings suggest such drugs could be used to treat depression. Two separate studies into the effects of psilocybin, the active ingredient in magic mushrooms, showed that contrary to scientists' expectations, it does not increase but rather suppresses activity in areas of the brain that are also dampened with other anti-depressant treatments. "Psychedelics are thought of as 'mind-expanding' drugs so it has commonly been assumed that they work by increasing brain activity," said David Nutt...
  • British military insider: World War III is being staged; starting with Israel and Iran

    02/20/2010 3:48:46 PM PST · by TaraP · 204 replies · 3,696+ views
    examiner.com ^ | Feb 18th, 2010 | Carl Herman
    There is a planned Third World War, which will be nuclear and biological. Our source believes that this is on track to be initiated within the next 18-24 months. • It is planned to begin with a strike by Israel on Iran. Either Iran or China will be provoked into a nuclear response. After a brief nuclear exchange, there will be a ceasefire. The world will be thrown into fear and chaos - all carefully engineered. • The extreme state of tension will be used to justify heavy social and military controls in all western first world nations. Plans are...
  • 'Studio 60’ Cancellation Iminent

    10/29/2006 6:05:52 AM PST · by edpc · 95 replies · 2,706+ views
    Fox News ^ | Sunday, October 29, 2006 | Roger Friedman
    Here we go: despite receiving an order for three more episodes on Friday, the Aaron Sorkin NBC drama “Studio 60 on Sunset Strip” is about to be put out of its misery. Cast members are already confiding in friends that the end is near. It’s likely NBC will pull the plug shortly I am told by insiders. Last week, Studio 60 had 7.7 million viewers. Compare that with competing "CSI: Miami," with 17.5 million. That gap cannot be closed. But ‘Studio 60’ has trouble internally at NBC, forget its intramural rivals. According to ratings stats, the “Saturday Night Live” behind...