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 states 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 campaigns website.
Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum declined to comment to the paper.
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May I ask you .... where do you live? Where have you spent all your life?
Sandy Eego.
Truth be told,
I’ve seen Snowflakes,
Frozen Waterfalls and
Dead men on the Mexican Border.
I’ve worked on Drones,
Rescue Submarines and been
Over the Wall in a
Pitstop at the Indy 500.
Right now ,I want a cup of Coffee!
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Be careful. Ifinnigan is the one and only Harry Jacob Anslinger .....
Marihuana is a short cut to the insane asylum. Smoke marihuana cigarettes for a month and what was once your brain will be nothing but a storehouse of horrid specters. Hasheesh makes a murderer who kills for the love of killing out of the mildest mannered man who ever laughed at the idea that any habit could ever get him ......
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https://timeline.com/with-the-help-of-a-bank-executive-this-mexican-medicine-woman-hipped-america-to-magic-mushrooms-c41f866bbf37
Title: This Mexican medicine woman hipped America to magic mushrooms, with the help of a bank executive
In the hills of Oaxaca, María Sabina used psychedelics to heal
Humans have consumed psilocybin, the naturally occurring psychedelic compound in magic mushrooms, for more than 10,000 years. Until the mid 20th century, the context was religious.
That changed on June 29, 1955, when a vice president of J.P. Morgan named R. Gordon Wasson traveled to Mexico with a photographer to the mud hut of the Mazatec curandera (medicine woman) María Sabina and they became, in Wassons words, the first white men in recorded history to eat the divine mushrooms.
-------- Boy, does this arrogant Gordon Wasson have a bloated opinion of himself? ---- he says that in 1955 he and his photographer pal were THE FIRST WHITE MEN IN RECORDED HISTORY TO EAT THE DIVINE MUSHROOMS (apparently all the other white men spit them out)
How long is recorded history?
LOL
(I had thought from your screen name that you might be from Wisconsin.)
Sandy Eego, eh?
Been to Milwaukee Mile,
Lived in Indianapolis.
But I’m Southern California,
Born and Raised!
And You?
As far as ‘shrooms in Colorado,,,
It might make for a
Good Weekend trip!
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Pittsburgh, PA fornearly all of my 72 years except for time in the Army Security Agency, playing some baseball in Floriduh in the early 70's, and a trip to Riverside CA. in 1968 for a college baseball tournament.
I've been hardly anywhere, but here on these four acres on the edge of the woods outside of Pittsburgh.
It's very beautiful ..... but, too many leaves to rake.
;-)
When we went to Riverside from cold blustery Pittsburgh of nasty March of 1968, Southern California was somewhat of a shock ..... sunny, blue skies the whole week we were there ..... and the GIRLS were nearly all in real good shape and beautiful. It was hard to concentrate on baseball.
Did that happen to you!!
That had to be cool.
Well,,
In a word,
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Back in late 70’s early 80’s they were pretty popular around here. All you had to do in the summer was walk out to any local cow pasture. And pick them out of cow manure. We most always made tea out of them. Did see some more adventurous pick them straight out of cow shit and eat them.
But you had to know which ones to pick. A group of friends decided they would go pick a few. We were in high school. Picked a couple of the wrong kind and the whole bunch ended up in the emergency room. Mom’s and Dad’s were not amused.
This is likely planning a vacation that doesn’t cost a great deal of money.
I would imagine you have to plan food, and all kinds of other things for this trip to happen in a good way.
The only thing you need to plan is not having anything to do for the rest of the day. Food? Nawww. Won’t be eating. Sex seems like a good idea. For a minute. Kinda pops into your head. Then pops right out again. Not a good idea to be around people who are not tripping. Because some of the silliest thoughts come into your head and right out of your mouth. Other fellow trippers understand and think its the funniest thing! Non-trippers just think you are nuts. Which I guess you are.....
Beg pardon, but Amanita Muscaria and Santa’s flying reindeer beg to differ, Mr. Wasson.
More of the same.
Ad hominem and strawmen.
Your own fantasies of your own internal world.
It’s too bad you can’t actually talk about the subject.
lol..........
I know I’m Crazy,,,
Orange juice,
Chocolate Brownies and
Soup!
PITTSBURGH,
Been to Nazareth Race Track,,,
Snowed out once,LoL!
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