OREGON VOTERS APPROVE BALLOT MEASURE TO DECRIMINALIZE ALL DRUGS…
MODERN CULTURE

The decriminalization measure will remove criminal penalties for low-level drug possession offenses…

Under the proposal, the decriminalization provisions must be implemented by February 1, 2021.

We are living in an age in which the ground is shaking and the foundations are shaking. I cannot answer for other times and places. Perhaps it has always been so. We know it is true today. In these circumstances, we have every reason to be insecure. When the ultimate basis of our world is in question, we run to different holes in the ground, we scurry into roles, statuses, identities, interpersonal relations. We attempt to live in castles that can only be built in the air because there is no firm ground in the social cosmos on which to build. We are all witnesses to this state of affairs. Each sometimes sees the same fragment of the whole situation differently; often our concern is with different presentations of the original catastrophe [of the drug war]. -The Politics of Experience by R.D. Laing

SAFE CONSUMPTION MEANS SAFE INHALATION, TOO: AN ALL-INCLUSIVE MODEL

HEALING

As a former crack cocaine user, I’ve been on both ends of sharing a glass stem. I know how people experiencing stimulant dependency may be more inclined to take risks, like sharing pipes…

The renovated site has stainless steel booths for people to inject, snort or orally consume their drugs. It includes a separate room, with internal windows bringing in light and making everything visible, for people who are smoking their drugs. The air-intake ducts in that room are more powerful than those above the cubicles, allowing for air in the room to be more rapidly cycled out.

How wars make addicts... american civil war (1861-1865) and the franco-german war (1870-1871)... morphine injections were introduced as pain reliever fro injured soldiers. -The Curious World of Drugs and their Friends by Ingo Niermann and Adriano Sack

MILITARIZED PSYCHIATRY VS PLANT [AND FUNGI]

BIOGRAPHY

…important revelation can be found in DARPA’s report. On one hand they admit the therapeutic value of psychedelic substances, and on the other, they dismiss it due to the “side effects” they call “hallucination.”

Reinventing the medicine wheel is not an attempt to revolutionize medicine, since the revolution has already happened in a prehistoric distant past. Most likely, it is about market shares and a desire to get deeper inside our minds. One way to look at why DARPA speaks unfavorably about psilocybin treatment of soldiers is that by taking psilocybin, a soldier might suddenly realize that being a soldier and being ready to die for a paycheck and make a living by killing is not the best way to spend his life. The prospect that soldiers may quit as an “undesirable” effect of psilocybin treatment is perhaps the sole reason that DARPA rejects making it available for them. The same is true for civilians who, after a psychedelic experience, suddenly realize that they were not doing what they wanted in life.

To banish your demons, you must be willing to delve beyond peak experiences to explore hidden, scary parts of your shadow. The shadow contains the parts that you unconsciously conceal from yourself and others. Your shadow may contain shameful, frightening, painful thoughts, feelings, impulses, and memories you do not want to see or feel. These are your demons. The only way to make them leave is to invite them in to tea and conversation. You cannot captain your own ship as long as you are blown about by unseen forces in your shadow. As long as the contents of your shadow remain unconscious and unexamined, you can struggle with addictions, self-sabotaging behaviors, and dysfunctional relationship patterns. -Psychedelic Psychotherapy: A User Friendly Guide to Psychedelic Drug Assisted Psychotherapy by R. Coleman 

OREGON VOTERS APPROVE INITIATIVE… PSILOCYBIN… THERAPY...

POLITICS

There aren’t any limitations on the types of conditions that would make a patient eligible for the treatment [however, one need be at least 21 years old to participate].

Currently, there are no such policies in place anywhere else in the U.S., though the victory for reformers does come amid a growing national movement to decriminalize a wide range of entheogenic substances, including ayahuasca and ibogaine. [Denver], Oakland, Santa Cruz… Ann Arbor, [and Washington DC] have made laws against plant- and fungi-derived psychedelics among their cities’ lowest enforcement priorities.

[As a veteran of the United States Air Force with over ten years of active duty life before transitioning back to civilian life]... cooking with fun-guys, aka magic mushrooms are wonderfully fun and engaging process. Sure, there are tons of ways you can ingest our fungal friends, but taking the time to prepare a meal, with love and effort engenders a greater connection between the psilocybin-containing fellas and our souls. When I wrote this book, my purpose was to give people new and creative ideas for incorporating psilocybin, but I understand that may not be your cup of tea. With that in mind, here are a few rules for cooking with Magic Mushrooms and increasing (or decreasing) the dosage... the main way I explore and use Magic Mushrooms is through food. I believe that by connecting psilocybin usage to cooking, we deepen the spiritual and emotional aspect of using this potent psychedelic. -Cooking with Magic: The Psilocybin Cookbook by David Connell

THE INFLUENCE OF SOCIETY ON THE PSYCHEDELIC EXPERIENCE

SCIENCE

…expands the traditional meaning of set & setting in psychedelic therapy to include the broader contexts in which these substances are used. He calls this the “collective set and setting”: the broader cultural and social contexts in which these substances are used. This is something that pharmacological discourse has been reluctant to acknowledge over the years… complicates drug trials and discussions around drugs. [However], psychedelic users today are much more “psychedelically literate” than the ones in the 1960s, and that’s a result of a very rich culture of discourse and practice informed by the idea of set and setting.

One of the defining ideas of pharmacology is an often implicit notion which scholar Richard DeGrandpre termed pharmacologicalism: the assumption that a drug is exclusively defined by its inherent pharmacological qualities – that it has one type of discrete effect independent of any variables. The closer we look at the effects of drugs, the more we see that they do not work like that at all. The effects of drugs, not just psychedelics, can change radically depending on the social and physical environment. Think of the example of US soldiers returning from Vietnam in the 1970's. The American army tried numerous plots to help these soldiers kick their heroin habit while they were in Vietnam, but all of these ultimately failed. Then, as the soldiers returned home, suddenly 90% of them were able to kick the habit spontaneously, without going through any kind of treatment.

If you can't be bothered to try any of the recipes or other consumption methods in this book, then the single best thing that you can do is to invest in a cheap capsule-making kit and start making your own mushroom capsules... all you'll need to make the dried mushrooms into powder... is a regular coffee grinder, though it's preferable here to use an old one or have on that's used only for this purpose... if you're vegan or vegetarian, it's easy to find capsules that suit your dietary requirement... -The Psilocybin Chef Cookbook by Virginia Haze and Dr. K Mandrake, PhD

WASHINGTON, D.C. VOTERS APPROVE PSYCHEDELICS DECRIMINALIZATION IN NATION’S CAPITAL
ANTHROPOLOGY

Under the new law, possession and use of entheogenic plants and fungi will be among the District’s lowest law enforcement priorities.

Because Congress oversees policy in the capital city, the new D.C. psychedelics measure will go into effect after a 30-day review period during which time federal lawmakers have the opportunity to block the reform, as they once did with a voter-approved medical cannabis ballot initiative. While three other cities—Oakland, Santa Cruz and Ann Arbor—have similarly decriminalized possession of plant-and fungi-based psychedelics, this is the first time the sweeping policy was enacted through a ballot initiative. That said, Denver voters were the first in the country to decriminalize psilocybin alone last year via a ballot measure, sparking a nationwide psychedelics reform movement. There are now psychedelics decriminalization efforts underway in more than 100 cities.

The opposition warned of dire consequences, insisting that these substances could irrevocably and permanently alter the mind and body of anyone exposed to them. What these people in their fear failed to understand was that this was precisely the point: we wanted to be transformed. Not only did I take these plants, but I enjoyed the experience immensely. There is no part of my being that was not affected by the experience. I do not believe that I would write the way I do, think the way I do... had I not had endured with glee the soul-shattering experience that these plants induced... for me, as I suspect for Marlene Dobkin de Rios, these experience were gifts from the divine, sacred messages that reminded those of us who live in a world stripped of the sacred that we, too, have the right to dream. -Wade Davis in Psychedelic Journey of Marlene Dobkin De Rios: 45 Years with Shamans, Ayahuascqueros, and Ethnobotanists

DECRIMINALIZATION IS JUST THE START OF REAL REFORM – AND… USERS NEED TO BE PART OF THE CONVERSATION

PSYCHOLOGY

For… users, the potential pitfalls of [blanket] decriminalization are frightening and all too likely to happen. One fear they have about decriminalization is that authorities will drop criminal punishments, only to raise an oppressive regime of civil penalties – specifically, issuing tickets and fines… a fear is that… decriminalize [all] drugs, that’s where the experiment will end – far short of bringing in the regulations users argue would truly allow autonomy over their bodies.

...U.S. drug courts in the United States as an example of how this can backfire. In the U.S., it is increasingly common for someone caught with drugs to be diverted from the criminal system and instead directed through a drug court into treatment. While this sounds like a victory for health care over incarceration, the book’s authors show that drug courts’ lower threshold for apprehension actually “widens the net,” resulting in a larger overall number of people facing oppressive interactions with the state. “And then when people violate the terms of their drug-court sentence,” Ms. Schenwar told me recently, “often the penalty is incarceration, and often it is the maximum sentence.”

Alcohol is not a psychedelic. But it is a metaphor. Although capital "P" prohibition has nothing directly to do with lowercase "p" prohibition on psychedelics... If Prohibition teaches you nothing else, know this much, we are bad as a civilization, in terms of our ability to frame measured policy aimed at the roots of "drug problems". [The Greek Septuagint humanized, Euhumerized, the already disguised pharmaco-shamanic language completely, thus cutting all connection to the ancient meaning]. -Psychedelic Lex: The Law of Psychedelics by Gary Micael Smith, Esq. & Shamanism and the Drug Propaganda: Patriarchy and the Drug War by Dan Russell

HOW ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN ACTIVISTS DECRIMINALIZED PSYCHEDELICS…

City Council voted unanimously Sept. 21 2020 in favor of a resolution declaring…

…that authorities won’t investigate and arrest anyone for planting, cultivating, buying, transporting, distributing, engaging in practices with or possessing “entheogenic plants” [ayahusaca, psilocybin mushrooms, iboga, etc], or plant compounds.

A word on sugar... I can tell you that I was unaware of the antagonistic effects of sugary drinks and food on my trip... avoiding sugar for 5 to 10 days before your meal will allow for your body to rid itself of anything that may lessen your trip's intensity. -Mr. Boomers Magic Kitchen: Over 40 Easy Psychedelic Recipes for Magical Experiences by Ben Owens

...PROSECUTOR WON’T PURSUE PSYCHEDELICS POSSESSION CASES FOLLOWING LOCAL DECRIMINALIZATION VOTE

If the founding fathers had thought the government would make this illegal, they would’ve put it in the Bill of Rights… For Jeff Hayner, one of the City Council members who sponsored the resolution, the decision also came down to not straining the city’s already limited police budget. “What’s the harm if someone wants to grow mushrooms in their basement and make tea once a month – who cares? We shouldn’t be paying people to prosecute someone for that,” he says.

On September 21, 2020, the City Council of Ann Arbor, Michigan, voted to decriminalize all entheogenic plants, including magic mushrooms, ayahuasca, ibogaine, mescaline, and [cacti]. Now, crimes related to these substances will be local police’s lowest priority, and related prosecutions already underway will be halted.

Oh happy sin that brought us such a savior (Roman Missal Exultet Hymn). In the 3rd Century CE, a syncretic Christian sect arose in the marshlands of the confluence of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers that survived in various forms until the 19th Century. The Roman Church persecuted its adherents in medieval Eurpoe in the Albigensian Crusade against the Cathars. It is known as Manichaeism...The Manichaean sect prescribed a vegetarian diet to engulf as much light as possible... among the plants honored, as a sacrament for this sect, the most pure, the ones with the highest concentration of illumination and fire, were the mushrooms... in this scenario, the forces of darkness retaliated by creating Adam, the man of clay, to lock up in his incarnation their dwindling supply of stolen light. Then they nefariously created also the eternal seductress in the form of Eve. The two were set free to lust for each other as the concupiscent agents to further lock up the light within each of their ever-increasing offspring, forever diluting more and more the light in corporeal entrapment, as the race of humans proliferated. To reverse this insidious captivity, the forces of Light sent the shining Jesus in the form of the Serpent to Eden, to urge Adam to eat the forbidden fruit from the Tree of Knowledge. This is the fruit that replenishes the diminishing store of empyreal light. This tradition pervades Christian mysticism throughout Europe of the Medieval and Renaissance periods. Jesus is already present at the Temptation, resident in the Tree of Eden, and Eve's sin was no sin at all, but a happy fault, a blessed even or felix culpa, that would set the stage for the Redemption through the miraculous incarnation of the Savior in the womb of the Blessed Virgin. Jesus is the new Adam, and Mary the Queen of Heaven is His spouse and the perfection of Eve. -Entheogens, Myth, and Human Consciousness by Carl A.P. Ruck & Mark A. Hoffman