A Scientific Look at Your Brain on Shrooms 5280 | The Denver Magazine
We take a trip through the scientific literature to learn how psilocybin mushrooms can help (or harm) your mind. By Kim Habicht | 5280 May 2019.
Category: Mushrooms
360° Perspective: Decriminalizing “magic” mushrooms KOAA 5
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The Fight to Decriminalize Magic Mushrooms: What to Know The Cut
Everything to know about the growing national movement to decriminalize psilocybin, better know as magic mushrooms.
Threading Denver’s magic mushrooms needle: Promising as medicine, risky as recreation USA TODAY
Denver, the biggest city in the first state to legalize recreational marijuana back in 2012, has narrowly passed an ordinance to essentially decriminalize psilocybin, the hallucinatory substance found in over 100 varieties of mushrooms. After the results are officially certified later this month, enforcement will be given the lowest priority, and a panel will be established to try to assess the impact of “magic mushrooms” on public safety, finances and public health. From a purely medical perspective, this seems to be a good thing, to allow treatment for a drug problem rather than locking p…
Denver’s ‘Magic Mushroom’ Vote Moves Drug Legalization Beyond Pot Daily Signal
Drug policy experts disagree on whether the results of the Denver referendum on psychedelic mushrooms mark a domino for more legalization efforts.
Opinion | Michael Pollan: Not So Fast on Psychedelic Mushrooms The New York Times
Psilocybin has a lot of potential as medicine, but we don’t know enough about it yet to legalize it.
Michael Pollan: Not So Fast on Psychedelic Mushrooms The New York Times
Only a few days ago, millions of Americans probably had never heard of psilocybin, the active agent in psychedelic mushrooms, but thanks to Denver, it is about …
Mushrooms as Medicine? Psychedelics May Be Next Breakthrough Treatment EcoWatch
By Gigen Mammoser. Soft lighting. Comfortable furniture. Art decorating the walls. To the untrained eye, this setting appears to be a living room. But it’s not.
Will ‘Magic Mushrooms’ Be Part of Your Future Mental Health Therapy? Healthline
This week Denver became the first city in the nation to effectively decriminalize psychedelics known as magic mushrooms.
Denver Voters Support ‘Magic’ Mushrooms The New York Times
Voters in Denver, a city at the forefront of the widening national debate over legalizing marijuana, have become the first in the nation to effectively decriminalize another recreational drug: hallucinogenic mushrooms. The local ballot measure did not quite legalize the mushrooms that contain psilocybin, a naturally occurring psychedelic compound. State and federal regulations would have to change to accomplish that. But the measure made the possession, use or cultivation of the mushrooms by people aged 21 or older the lowest-priority crime for law enforcement in the city of Denver and Denv…