Month: May 2019

Researchers believe psychedelic drugs could combat depression and addiction. Here’s how magic mushrooms affect your brain.  Business Insider

Psilocybin, the psychoactive compound in “magic” mushrooms, triggers changes in your brain that may help combat depression and addiction.

After Denver allowed ‘magic’ mushrooms, Oakland could be next  East Bay Times

OAKLAND — Oakland could become the second city in the nation to allow the use of psilocybin mushrooms — also known as “magic mushrooms” — following in Denver’s footsteps. Oakland’s city council will vote June 4 on a resolution barring police from enforcing laws that criminalize the use of “entheogenic” plants, which include psilocybin mushrooms, ayahuasca and peyote. The proposed resolution follows an effort at the state level to decriminalize psilocybin mushrooms, which failed to make it to California’s 2018 ballot. Activists are gathering signatures now to put a measure on the Oregon stat…

Oakland Takes Step Toward Decriminalizing Psychedelic Mushrooms | The California Report  KQED

A resolution to decriminalize certain psychedelic plants was approved by a City Council committee Tuesday. If the full council OKs it, Oakland would become.

Oakland council may board magic bus by decriminalizing natural psychedelics  San Francisco Chronicle

Oakland could become the second city in the country to decriminalize certain natural psychedelics — including “magic mushrooms” — if elected leaders approve a resolution that would instruct law enforcement to stop investigating and prosecuting people using the drugs. The resolution is scheduled for its first public hearing before the City Council’s public safety committee Tuesday night and could go before the full council as early as June 4. It applies only to psychedelics that come from plants or fungi, not synthetic drugs like LSD or MDMA, also known as ecstasy. Councilman Noel Gallo, who…