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Chicago could become largest city to Decriminalize Entheogenic Plants
Chicago’s Committee on Health and Human Relations unanimously passed (50-0) a resolution October 16 to decriminalize entheogenic plants and fungi.
Culture
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What the heck happened to Reality Sandwich?
Reality Sandwich was sold to a group called Delic Corp. Now there’s a lawsuit.
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An open letter to the newly founded Center for Psychedelic Research at Johns Hopkins
With the recent creation of the Center for Psychedelic and Consciousness Research at Johns Hopkins Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland, we must remember that, while industrialized medicine has never attempted to serve all people, institutional histories vary from one organization to the next.
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SSDP Spotlight: Just Say Know, a peer education program for everyone
Although SSDP was founded upon political lobbying from the top down, it has also served as a platform for member-led initiatives of harm reduction and peer education.
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Young People of Color As Leaders in The Movement To End the War on Drugs
How do you center the needs and perspectives of people of color in your activism—not because you want to fill a quota, but because the success of your work depends on it?
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Considerations for Engaging with Amazonian Ancestral Practices, People, and Places
If we truly believe in the positive transformational power of visionary plant experiences, we must support each other to make real social change happen, less this transformation stagnates at the individual level.
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Shipibo Women Healers on the Challenges and Opportunities of the Ayahuasca Boom
After the murder of a Peruvian healer in 2018, traditional healers, local political figures, and nonprofit allies gathered to address the complexities that come with the influx of foreigners seeking ayahuasca in the Amazon.
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Third Wave staff quits, writes open letter, over work environment created by founder Paul Austin
Eight staff have quit The Third Wave and issued an open statement.
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This is what psychedelic mainstreaming looks like…in Arizona
As psychedelic medicalization and the potential profits of a “virgin market” loom large, new organizations are increasingly looking to gain legitimacy within the field. Mainstreaming means the doors of this field are being thrown wide open.
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David Nickles – Radical Entheogenic Practice in the Age of Institutional Psychedelics
Psychedelics are becoming increasingly mainstream, as a host of other dire sociopolitical issues are reaching a global fever pitch.
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The First Step Act is not the criminal justice reform we need. But it’s a start.
Trump signed into law the First Step Act, which makes modest reforms that ease the federal prison population.
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A Mother-Daughter Mushroom Trip Captured on Film
Would you take psychedelic mushrooms with your mom?