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Posted on 12/05/2018 2:57:13 AM PST by 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.
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BULLSHIT!!! WATCHING PURPLE BRICKS MELT OUT OF A WALL IS NOT REALITY.
There are too many survivors of the ‘60s around here to sell that myth. I’m personally FOR the idea, only because it will be easy to convince users that they can fly off a water tower...
“Aim for the concrete, it will cushion you...”
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Wow, dude, you’re harshing the buzz...
“Anyone stupid enough to fiddlef#ck with their neurons, looking for some Higher Understanding, is disposable.”
What an ignorant, truly hateful thing to say. Does that go for all drugs? Or just illegal drugs, that you wish death on people who use them?
What about all the recent studies showing positive, life saving results for troops (and others) with severe, life threatening PTSD? LSD and psybocilin (and extasy!) change their lives for the better, save their lives in fact. Already in the approval pipelineprocess for widespread treatment. Do you wish death on them, too?
Jerk.
Some people will look past the surface of a lake and see the lakeweeds and the crayfish walking on the lake bottom and the fish swimming. Others will say there is only one reality, just the surface of the lake, and if you're claiming to see fish and whatnot, you must be some kind of libertarian kook that should be driven off of FreeRepublic.
“Others will say there is only one reality, just the surface of the lake, and if you’re claiming to see fish and whatnot, you must be some kind of libertarian kook that should be driven off of FreeRepublic.”
Wisdom. Reminds me of a short story: “The Kingdom of thr Blind”. Or Johnathan Livingston Seagull (Bach).
A most beautiful state with terror on the highways.
The sweet thing is that idiots like you die, sooner, rather than later. Knew an "artist" who always thought he produced more "emotional" drawings, stoned. Everyone else knew it was garbage. If not for his mother he'd would have starved.
Truth is, he couldn't face his own lack of ability.
Find a frozen pond. Break a hole in the ice. Life's Answer is on the bottom of the pond. Dive in and look for it.
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How many times have you used it?
How about mushrooms?
DMT?
Phikals and Thikals?
PCP?
Datura?
Marijuana?
You still use?
You can go on all you want about your set and setting and Huxleyan elitism, it’s been 50 - 60 years and more and hadn’t made the world better. Not even close and in fact the opposite.
It’s a bill of goods, and you bought it.
No.
It’s a common nonsensical idea that began to be propagated by 60’s dope head leftists.
It’s like George Washington smoked dope all the time.
Stoners have their own little fantasy world.
Usually it includes ideas like socialism is great as well as weird quasi historical-quasi religious fantasies you mention.
“Denying True Reality requires a huge amount of self-medication.”
Yes. The leftists had a term for it, they’d say “reality is silly putty”.
“Who’s going to supervise this new mushroom phenomenon?”
Lol.
Yes.
Liberal overlords would be their answer. The new priests of the new age.
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You seem like a pretty decent guy. But you are stone-wrong with that absurd statement of yours.
All we human beings, who are fortunate enough to be aware of history, would have missed many of the greatest contributions and finest works and words of poets, writers, musicians, architects, scientists, philosophers, etc., etc., etc. if they hadn't EXPANDED their minds in one way or another.
I feel a little sorry for people like you, who for one reason or another, develop a immovable, fixed belief about a subject from a VERY LIMITED set of circumstances.
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Anyhow, thanks for your thoughts.
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LOL .... I envy you. I wish I could laugh like that, but I don't quite enough.
You're a lucky guy.
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I gotta say .... the main reason I'm not as patient with people as I should be here ..... is because my ass is killing me in this very uncomfortable chair. OUCH!
;-)
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You're right...... more car accident deaths now than when there were only horses.
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.
“Those colors are always there. Some folks just never get to see them.”
The pictures of Masaru Emoto depicting thoughts bound in water came to mind. He labeled bottles of water with different thoughts and stored them where he could see them and reinforce the thought printed on the bottle. Then he froze the water and took slices from which he made photos. The photos are awe inspiring, and a basis for understanding our civility, as we are 97% water by composition.
"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." ---- agreed.
"The barely repressed crazy is going to really cut loose when they do, and they may not ever get it bottled up again." ----- yes sir.
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On the lighter side ...... when I was younger back in the early 70's, I had a good friend who dabbled in selling a pound or two of marijuana at times. He was an old high school swimming buddy (he had nearly qualified for the '68 Olympics // 100 yard butterfly. He wasn't real bright, but he was street smart as hell.
Anyhow he liked to get high .... a lot. My wife told me this story about him this morning when I told her about this thread. She mentioned a party we were at with him. At one point he told her, "I was at this place and I was so stoned I didn't even know that I was stoned."
LOL
Masaru Emoto
On THE LIST!
Thanks
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