|
Ythan
ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ


Registered: 08/08/97
Posts: 18,774
Loc: NY/MA/VT Borderlands
Last seen: 59 minutes, 11 seconds
|
D.C. has chance to decriminalize 'magic' mushrooms 3
#26474713 - 02/07/20 09:17 PM (3 years, 11 months ago) |
|
|
D.C. has chance to decriminalize 'magic' mushrooms www.washingtontimes.com
D.C. voters would have the opportunity in November to make the District the fourth U.S. city to decriminalize psychedelic, or “magic,” mushrooms if activists collect enough signatures for a ballot initiative.
The D.C. Board of Elections on Wednesday approved the initiative proposal, which would make the non-commercial growth, purchase, possession and distribution of psychedelic mushrooms a low priority for police. City residents now have 10 days to challenge proposal. If the proposal survives the challenge period, activists will have 180 days to collect 25,000 signatures from D.C. voters to get it on the general election ballot.
Supporters of the initiative tout the medicinal benefits of psychoactive natural substances such as psilocybin mushrooms, mescaline and peyote in treating ailments such as depression, anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorder.
“We aren’t arguing for people to be partying and using drugs, what we really want is access to medicine,” said Seth Rosenberg, a spokesman for the nonprofit Campaign to Decriminalize Nature DC.
The initiative would apply to psychoactive drugs like ibogaine, which has been heralded in treating opioid addiction; mescaline; dimethyltryptamine or DMT; psilocybin or psilocin, which can be found in peyote, ayahuasca, mushrooms and in three plants indigenous to the District, said Mr. Rosenberg, who studies fungi as an amateur mycologist.
“I have seen the plants growing outside of police stations and on school properties, but nobody knows that they are there,” he said.
“The idea that somehow we need to go through a doctor to take these incredibly safe substances we can find on the ground for free, it seems counterproductive,” Mr. Rosenberg added.
He noted that no deaths have been attributed solely to natural psychedelics and that it can cost as much $1,000 to get a gram of the medical-grade psilocybin.
The Office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia declined to comment Thursday. The Metropolitan Police Department suggested filing a Freedom of Information Act request for arrest data related to the drug.
On Tuesday, the Southern California city of Santa Cruz decriminalized psychedelic mushrooms, joining Denver and Oakland, which both decriminalized the substance last spring.
In 2000, Johns Hopkins University was the first research facility in the country to win approval for restarting examinations of the medicinal benefits of psychedelics.
Mr. Rosenberg said he was able to keep his promise to his daughter to quit smoking cigarettes with the help of mushrooms.
Wyly Gray, a Marine Corps veteran, however, said he used ayahuasca to overcome suicidal thoughts, anxiety, PTSD and depression.
Shortly after Mr. Gray returned from Afghanistan in 2008, his support system to help with his transition to civilian life deteriorated. His then-wife’s father died in a car crash and her mother was murdered in a span of three weeks.
In 2012, Mr. Gray was accepted to Georgetown University, where he is a full-time student and has made the dean’s list.
Mr. Gray says he looked successful on the outside but inside “I didn’t feel like I had any reason to stay.”
He exhausted all treatment options from individual and group therapy, to eye movement desensitization and reprocessing therapy, to adventure therapy and medication. None of it worked for him.
After researching ayahuasca and “with a lot of fear in [his] heart,” Mr. Gray traveled in 2017 to Iquitos, Peru, where he participated in three sessions that changed his life. He is no longer has suicidal ideas, doesn’t drink or smoke, and is able to sleep.
He even changed the mission of his nonprofit, Veterans of War, from focusing on preserving veterans stories as a means for healing to taking groups to Peru to undergo ayahuasca sessions. The first group of four veterans will travel there in April.
“We are fighting against a clock that’s ticking every day to the tune of 20 veterans committing suicide, and it’s a preventable,” Mr. Gray said.
|
filthyknees
no coincidence


Registered: 03/08/13
Posts: 6,283
|
Re: D.C. has chance to decriminalize 'magic' mushrooms [Re: Ythan]
#26474771 - 02/07/20 10:21 PM (3 years, 11 months ago) |
|
|
-------------------- But if you're in a hurry, and really got to go If you're in a hurry, might have to find out slow That it's one thing to try and another to fly You get there quicker just a step at a time It's one thing to bark, another to bite The show ain't over till you pack up at night
|
PumpJackTeX
livin life



Registered: 05/26/08
Posts: 3,951
Loc: California
Last seen: 10 months, 29 days
|
Re: D.C. has chance to decriminalize 'magic' mushrooms [Re: filthyknees]
#26474847 - 02/08/20 12:15 AM (3 years, 11 months ago) |
|
|
Who was member #1?
-------------------- Life. 2008 Ascension Energy | UFOs | 2021
|
Leftfield420
bong toker



Registered: 02/26/16
Posts: 10,023
Last seen: 8 hours, 27 minutes
|
Re: D.C. has chance to decriminalize 'magic' mushrooms [Re: PumpJackTeX]
#26474975 - 02/08/20 05:09 AM (3 years, 11 months ago) |
|
|
Thats cool, but mescaline is a extracted from peyote(lophophora williamsii)...not 2 different substances as it says in the OP
I think Denver was first
Edited by Leftfield420 (02/08/20 05:09 AM)
|
Barnaby
Interesting lifetime


Registered: 12/13/17
Posts: 9,136
|
Re: D.C. has chance to decriminalize 'magic' mushrooms [Re: Ythan]
#26475177 - 02/08/20 09:16 AM (3 years, 11 months ago) |
|
|
That is great! Can they decriminalize murder there and crack?
|
Amanita86
OTD Keymaster


Registered: 09/26/12
Posts: 89,464
Loc: hades
|
Re: D.C. has chance to decriminalize 'magic' mushrooms [Re: Barnaby] 1
#26475569 - 02/08/20 02:05 PM (3 years, 11 months ago) |
|
|
Why would you want to decrim murder and crack?
...oh it’s Barnaby, makes perfect sense.
--------------------
Orange clock, pencil "They threw me off the hay truck about noon..."
*Mark 15:34  Gam zeh ya’avor...
Edited by Amanita86 (02/08/20 02:05 PM)
|
Holybullshit
Stranger
Registered: 01/06/19
Posts: 1,551
|
Re: D.C. has chance to decriminalize 'magic' mushrooms [Re: Leftfield420]
#26475679 - 02/08/20 03:18 PM (3 years, 11 months ago) |
|
|
Quote:
Leftfield420 said: Thats cool, but mescaline is a extracted from peyote(lophophora williamsii)...not 2 different substances as it says in the OP
I think Denver was first
It might have been redundant, but it never implicitly stated it was 2 exclusive substances, you inferred that. Mescaline is found within peyote, but it is not peyote, and peyote is not mescaline(although it contains mescaline), and mescaline has other sources that are not peyote.
|
prettyhatemachine
Stranger

Registered: 06/24/19
Posts: 71
Last seen: 2 years, 11 months
|
Re: D.C. has chance to decriminalize 'magic' mushrooms [Re: Barnaby]
#26475998 - 02/08/20 06:54 PM (3 years, 11 months ago) |
|
|
Quote:
Barnaby said: That is great! Can they decriminalize murder there and crack?
Fuck yeah, I remember my crack phase, good times
|
numnum59
Pro-Am Mycologist


Registered: 12/07/11
Posts: 1,189
Last seen: 5 months, 21 days
|
Re: D.C. has chance to decriminalize 'magic' mushrooms [Re: prettyhatemachine]
#26476929 - 02/09/20 12:49 PM (3 years, 11 months ago) |
|
|
lol when reporters need to have a story to stay relevant
|
CosmicGiggle
Aspiring


Registered: 11/19/19
Posts: 265
|
Re: D.C. has chance to decriminalize 'magic' mushrooms [Re: Ythan]
#26477090 - 02/09/20 03:12 PM (3 years, 11 months ago) |
|
|
Quote:
Ythan said: psilocybin or psilocin, which can be found in peyote, ayahuasca, mushrooms and in three plants indigenous to the District, said Mr. Rosenberg, who studies fungi as an amateur mycologist.
Um. What? I know I don't know everything, but this is the biggest news in that story. Can someone teach me more? Or is this doofus just really hell bent on putting the "amateur" in "amateur mycologist" ?
--------------------
|
Amanita86
OTD Keymaster


Registered: 09/26/12
Posts: 89,464
Loc: hades
|
Re: D.C. has chance to decriminalize 'magic' mushrooms [Re: CosmicGiggle]
#26477403 - 02/09/20 06:32 PM (3 years, 11 months ago) |
|
|
It says “mescaline; dimethyltryptamine or DMT;” directly before that..
--------------------
Orange clock, pencil "They threw me off the hay truck about noon..."
*Mark 15:34  Gam zeh ya’avor...
|
Holybullshit
Stranger
Registered: 01/06/19
Posts: 1,551
|
Re: D.C. has chance to decriminalize 'magic' mushrooms [Re: Amanita86] 1
#26477937 - 02/10/20 03:34 AM (3 years, 11 months ago) |
|
|
Quote:
mescaline; dimethyltryptamine or DMT; psilocybin or psilocin, which can be found in peyote, ayahuasca, mushrooms
It's not the best use of grammar but you have to look at the semi-colons.
What he's saying is mescaline, dimethyltryptamine(otherwise known as DMT), psilocybin(or psilocin) which can be found in peyote, ayahuasca, and mushrooms[respectively]
What I want to know is, what are these "three plants indigenous to the District"? And which compounds is he saying can be found within them? Though I assume he means DMT, and he just means levels high enough to take notice of.
|
Barnaby
Interesting lifetime


Registered: 12/13/17
Posts: 9,136
|
Re: D.C. has chance to decriminalize 'magic' mushrooms [Re: prettyhatemachine]
#26487272 - 02/15/20 03:54 PM (3 years, 11 months ago) |
|
|
No. I don't mean to belittle it but it is what is in so many other areas. Drawn out sigh. I just want dealers on the street corners selling weed, lsd, DMT, and such.
Just what I want and this guy was like, this is my corner of the street to sell shit that I don't want. And I have been on and tried about everything. Street smarts is an old term but I get it.
So go at it, supply and demand.:shrug
|
Doc9151
Mycologist



Registered: 02/23/17
Posts: 13,753
Loc: Gulf Coast USA
Last seen: 1 year, 6 months
|
Re: D.C. has chance to decriminalize 'magic' mushrooms [Re: Barnaby]
#26491895 - 02/18/20 02:43 PM (3 years, 11 months ago) |
|
|
If plants containing those substances are found in D.C. it's either in the White House garden or the National arboretum. Can't think of anywhere else they can occur.
--------------------
  Psilocybe cubensis data collection thread. please help with this project if you hunt wild cubensis. https://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php?Cat=0&Number=26513593&page=0&vc=1#26513593
|
Barnaby
Interesting lifetime


Registered: 12/13/17
Posts: 9,136
|
Re: D.C. has chance to decriminalize 'magic' mushrooms [Re: Doc9151]
#26492115 - 02/18/20 05:06 PM (3 years, 11 months ago) |
|
|
Yeah. Not the best of places. West Coast guy. Still makes me laugh when they grow there and you get park rangers saying, don't pick those.
Schedule One here in the states. But still they get how idiotic it is.
Tired of the negativity, it sucks lately. Brings me out of it. Allies come in so many different ways at the right times. Synchronisty. Am a firm believer in it.
|
filthyknees
no coincidence


Registered: 03/08/13
Posts: 6,283
|
Re: D.C. has chance to decriminalize 'magic' mushrooms [Re: Doc9151]
#26492318 - 02/18/20 06:58 PM (3 years, 11 months ago) |
|
|
Quote:
Doc9151 said: If plants containing those substances are found in D.C. it's either in the White House garden or the National arboretum. Can't think of anywhere else they can occur.
You mean in terms of green space? Google Rock Creek Park, DC
-------------------- But if you're in a hurry, and really got to go If you're in a hurry, might have to find out slow That it's one thing to try and another to fly You get there quicker just a step at a time It's one thing to bark, another to bite The show ain't over till you pack up at night
|
meepins
Stranger

Registered: 09/08/18
Posts: 50
Last seen: 3 years, 7 months
|
Re: D.C. has chance to decriminalize 'magic' mushrooms [Re: Ythan]
#26611390 - 04/18/20 07:48 PM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
|
|
|
|