CASE SERIES EXAMINES PSILOCYBIN MICRODOSING FOR CHRONIC NEUROPATHIC PAIN

ANTHROPOLOGY

She reports that this dosing strategy reduced her pain from a score of 8 to 0 and that the pain relief lasts for 2 to 4 weeks. No adverse effects were reported.

The patient consumed a chocolate bar containing 1000 mg [1 gram] of dried ground mushroom every 6 to 8 weeks… [previously] for the past 5 years, the patient’s pain had worsened progressively, evolving to bilateral radicular pain [&] the patient underwent laminectomy, which mildly improved symptoms. She relied on NSAIDs, muscle relaxants, and opioids for pain relief.

Privacy: What and how you think should be private unless you choose to share it... the right to privacy must be found to encompass the inner domain of thought. 

Autonomy: Self-determination over one's own cognition is central to free will. Decisions concerning whether or how to change a person's thought processes must remain the province of the individual as opposed to government or industry. 

Choice: The capabilities of the human mind should not be limited. So long as people do not directly harm others, governments should not criminally prohibit cognitive enhancers for the experience of any mental state.

-The Psychedelic Policy Quagmire: Health, Law, Freedom, and Society edited by J. Harold Ellens and Thomas B. Roberts

NORTH AMERICA’S FIRST TAKE HOME PSILOCYBIN... APPROVED IN CANADA

PSYCHOLOGY

The veteran patients will receive low-dose, multi-dose psilocybin for oral use…

…which received Good Manufacturing Practice certification, and will be given to patients in a labeled package with at-home instructions.

Psychedelics, intelligently combined with science, are the "on-ramp" for the truly magical road to enlightenment. They are the power and force. Thanks to the Internet, the genie is out of the bottle. It is now clear that humankind is vibrating at a much higher frequency and shining with more brightness and intensity than people realize. The whole of humanity is entitled to these free and abundant... teachers... -Psychedelic Marine: A Transformational Journey from Afghanistan to the Amazon by Alex Seymour

THOUSANDS OF MOMS ARE MICRODOSING WITH MUSHROOMS TO EASE THE STRESS OF PARENTING
MODERN CULTURE

 …the first FDA-approved clinical trial of natural psilocybin… has been able to standardize notoriously unstable natural compounds – the power of natural psychedelics for healing is a cause… natural psychedelics have a lower cost to produce and administer when compared to synthetic versions.

My name is Tracey Tee. I have one daughter. She’s 11, and I am the steward of moms on mushrooms… thousands of mothers have turned to taking tiny amounts of psychedelic mushrooms to relieve stress… because psilocybin is still largely illegal across the country, most of the mothers wanted to use only their first names to protect their families and their professions.

Community can mean a lot of things. But one helpful way to unpack and integrate your experience is by talking about it with people. If you have friends, family, or loved ones with psychedelic experience, that's a great place to start. -Your Psilocybin Mushroom Companion: An Informative, Easy-to-Use Guide for Understanding Magic Mushrooms by Michelle Janikian

…TO TOWN

SPIRITUALITY

In adulthood, most kids who were… of 1990s counterculture revolutions such as grunge, punk, and techno can relate and reminisce about the state of partying experienced in the last few years on Earth before humans had global access to the internet… this trajectory went from beer and liquor to weed and hash, followed by mushrooms… after mushrooms, many moved on to acid. Those who acid agreed with it, did it again…

Twenty to thirty years later, it’s not hard to imagine why this generation’s zeitgeist has a relaxed and open mind towards drugs… skateboarding, cannabis, and wall art have begun revolutionizing what the… landscape of the 2020s can look like. Modern society has begun rewriting the narratives of what was once considered degenerate behavior… there is no limit to the consumption methods. Tinctures, capsules, infused edibles, are all easily and readily available with the proper know-how.

...its cultural cognitive map, its collective self-representation, its view of itself. The evolution... is the evolution of the self-representation, or self-image, of society, which guides our behavior today, and tomorrow. If we reflect... seeing it as it is, grokking it, giving impetus to its evolution - we can participate consciously in the creation of our future. -Chaos, Gaia, Eros by Ralph Abraham

LEGALIZING RECREATIONAL… PSILOCYBIN-CONTAINING MUSHROOMS

POLITICS

“People can grow it for their own use but they can’t sell it…

...we have both medical marijuana and legalized marijuana… strong supporter of both… this is more like the medical side for mushrooms and, yes, there’s no criminal penalties if you grow it yourself for recreational, but what we are excited about are some of the medical opportunities,” said Colorado Governor Jared Polis.

The Universe can now be understood as a kind of ongoing dialog, or story even, in which language-like patterns of information are forever in the process of informing each other. As this universal tide of information flows, merges, folds, knits, weaves, and feeds back on itself, novel patterns of information are continually being stimulated and declared into existence. Particles, atoms, elements, molecules, cells, microorganisms, plants, animals, humans, minds, ideas, and so on - all are forms of information continually in process. Any "thing" or object is where a vast set of relations converge... -The Psilocybin Solution: The Role of Sacred Mushrooms in the Quest for Meaning by Simon G. Powell

OREGON CONGRESSMAN… THE TREND WILL ‘CONTINUE’

BIOGRAPHY

“I still think these are the greatest thing since sliced bread,” Marty Clements says about the mushrooms. He takes a prescription bottle out of his bag, opens it and takes a couple of squares of psilocybin chocolate into his hands. He puts the chocolate back in the bottle and snaps the lid shut. Since Marty started microdosing, he says he’s been able to stop himself from hunching. He says he can see patterns of behavior caused by his PTSD now…

Ken Babbs says taking LSD and psilocybin helped him become a kinder, more open person… [Oregon Representative] Earl Blumenauer… “absolutely” sees parallels between the movements to reform laws around psychedelics and marijuana… the congressman is well known for his marijuana reform advocacy on Capitol Hill, serving as a co-chair of the Congressional Cannabis Caucus. But he’s also become one of the most vocal members on psychedelics policy in recent years… asked if he feels whether the country is witnessing a repeat of the marijuana reform movement with psychedelics, he said “absolutely – it’s part of the same process.”

In an increasingly disenfranchised world, the building of real community offers a powerful draw, and the high concentration of radical freethinkers in the psychedelic community - many who are pioneers in their own fields, may yet have unforeseen advantages in the years ahead... psychedelic philosophy is a neon rabbit hole that fractals in every direction after that first time you dissolve in that tunnel of light. -The New Psychedelic Revolution: The Genesis of the Visionary Age by James Oroc

NEARLY HALF OF U.S. ADULTS SUPPORT LEGALIZING SOME PSYCHEDELICS…
SCIENCE

…when asked whether they would support legalization of some or all psychedelics for other purposes, 28 percent were in favor of legalization for religious or spiritual purposes, while 26 percent were in favor of recreational legalization. 

One survey carried out in August 2022 among 181 U.S. psychiatrists found many took issue with the federal classification of some psychoactive substances. “Despite these knowledge and accessibility gaps, our results do show that under the right circumstances, nearly half Americans are open to the idea of using psychedelics…” authors wrote…

The earliest mention of divine mushrooms is in the record of the trial of two Indian brothers in Mexico City in 1537... their use of sacred mushrooms was mentioned five times in the course of the proceedings... found guilty of such charges were usually tortured and then burned at the stake... the Spanish were determined to eliminate any vestige of the old religion. They were especially annoyed by the stubborn persistence... a century after the Conquest there was still no sign that the Spanish effort had met with any measurable success... the mushrooms... used secretly... or their use merged with the worship of Christian saints. -Mushrooms: Psychedelic Fungi edited by Solomon H. Snyder, MD, Malcom H. Lader, D.SC, PH.D, M.D., F.R.C. PSYCH.

PENDLETON, OREGON PSILOCYBIN COOPERATIVE PROMOTES MEDICINAL USE…

RELIGION

A local Pendleton, [Oregon-based] operation is working… to expand their minds when it comes to the benefits of small doses of psilocybin, the mushroom-derived substance that is psychoactive in larger amounts. Brandon Krenzler… is the local face behind the Pendleton Psilocybin Cooperative… several psilocybin-based products are on display on 9/20/22. A box of chocolate infused with 4 grams of psilocybin; two types of psilocybin tinctures macrodose… gummy prototype blends with 2-3 grams of psilocybin inside the glass container. “Our Facebook page points out how to cultivate mushrooms at home,” he said. Kenzler also noted an advantage of home-grown mushrooms in that the grower knows what’s in the fungal substrate.

Krenzler also noted an advantage of home-grown mushrooms in that the grower knows what’s in the fungal substrate… comes a decade after Colorado voted to legalize recreational use of marijuana which catapulted the industry with hundreds of dispensaries appearing across the state. Will this happen with psychedelics? Perhaps? Currently, there are mushroom dispensaries opening left and right in Canada and in the U.S. such as Dana Larsen’s Medicinal Mushroom Dispensary... and more… this is a huge step forward in the fight for drug reform, and it’s thanks in large part to the hard work of activists and organizers across the country… it’s clear that change is happening at the state level… Colorado immediately decriminalize[d] the personal use, transport and growth of psilocybin and psilocin, the active ingredients found in magic mushrooms, for adults 21 and over… explicitly states those acts are now not an offense under state law, and cannot be used as the basis for detention, search or arrest by authorities.

Women and Gaiatropic plants were hunted down with a vengeance. Without plant wisdom to teach humankind higher consciousness, a wave of fear and paranoia swept across Europe. Control is the real issue here. Controlling the drugs you use means controlling what you think and what you believe... -The Politics of Consciousness by Steve Kubby

CAN PSYCHEDELICS FOLLOW CANNABIS’ LEAD?
HEALING

The psychedelics industry is similar to where the cannabis industry was 10 years ago as it fights for legalization in various countries.

Retail establishments in the Netherlands that specialize in the sale of psychoactive substances, such as magic truffles, are called Smart Shops. There are an estimated 100 Smart Shops operating in the Netherlands, generating over US$100 million in sales annually.

"Since it is not easy for you to recognize other varieties of intelligence around you... there lie richer and even more baroque evolutionary possibilities. Symbiosis is one of these. Symbiosis is a relation of mutual dependence and positive benefits for both of the species involved..." -Psilocybin: Magic Mushroom Grower's Guide by O.T. Oss & O.N. Oeric