Home | Community | Message Board

MushroomMan Mycology
This site includes paid links. Please support our sponsors.


Welcome to the Shroomery Message Board! You are experiencing a small sample of what the site has to offer. Please login or register to post messages and view our exclusive members-only content. You'll gain access to additional forums, file attachments, board customizations, encrypted private messages, and much more!

Shop: North Spore North Spore Mushroom Grow Kits & Cultivation Supplies   Mushroom-Hut Mono Tub Substrate   Left Coast Kratom Buy Kratom Extract   Kraken Kratom Kratom Capsules for Sale   PhytoExtractum Kratom Powder for Sale   Unfolding Nature Unfolding Nature: Being in the Implicate Order   Original Sensible Seeds Bulk Cannabis Seeds

Jump to first unread post Pages: 1
InvisibleveggieM

Registered: 07/25/04
Posts: 17,501
Thousands sign up to experience ‘magic mushrooms’ in Oregon’s psilocybin experiment * 1
    #28470056 - 09/15/23 01:30 PM (4 months, 10 days ago)

Thousands sign up to experience ‘magic mushrooms’ in Oregon’s psilocybin experiment
September 15, 2023 - Los Angeles Times

EUGENE, Ore. — Psilocybin tea, wind chimes and a tie-dye mattress await those coming to an office suite here to trip on magic mushrooms. For roughly six hours, adults over 21 can experience what many users describe as vivid geometric shapes, a loss of identity and a oneness with the universe.

Epic Healing Eugene — Oregon’s first licensed psilocybin service center — opened in June, marking the state’s unprecedented step in offering the mind-bending drug to the public. The center now has a waiting list of more than 3,000 names, including people with depression, post-traumatic stress disorder or end-of-life dread.

No prescription or referral is needed, but proponents hope Oregon’s legalization will spark a revolution in mental health care.

Colorado voters last year passed a measure allowing regulated use of “magic mushrooms” starting in 2024, and the California Legislature this month approved a measure that would allow possession and use of certain plant- and mushroom-based psychedelics, including psilocybin and mescaline, with plans for health officials to develop guidelines for therapeutic use.

The Oregon Psilocybin Services Section, charged with regulating the state’s industry, has received “hundreds of thousands of inquiries from all over the world,” Angela Allbee, the agency’s manager, said in an interview.

“So far, what we’re hearing is that clients have had positive experiences,” she said.

While psilocybin remains illegal in most of the United States, the Food and Drug Administration in 2018 designated it a “breakthrough therapy.” This summer, the FDA published draft guidance for researchers designing clinical trials for psychedelic drugs.

Researchers believe psilocybin changes the way the brain organizes itself, helping a user adopt new attitudes and overcome mental health issues.

The Oregon Psychiatric Physicians Assn., however, opposed Oregon’s 2020 ballot measure legalizing psilocybin, saying it “is unsafe and makes misleading promises to those Oregonians who are struggling with mental illness.”

Allbee noted that psychedelic mushrooms have been a part of tribal spiritual and healing practices for thousands of years. Her agency is focused on safety, she said.

First, customers must have a preparation session with a licensed facilitator who stays with clients as they experience the drug. The facilitator can deny access to those who have active psychosis, have thoughts of harming anyone or have taken lithium, which is used to treat mania, in the last month.

The clients can’t buy mushrooms “to go,” and they must stay at the service center until the drug wears off.

Besides approving psilocybin, Oregon voters in 2020 decriminalized possession of hard drugs, cementing the state’s reputation as a leader in drug-law reform. Oregon was the first state to decriminalize marijuana possession and one of the first to legalize its recreational use.

But these days, the regulated marijuana industry is struggling with massive oversupply. And drug decriminalization has not greatly expanded addiction treatment or reduced overdoses as hoped. A new poll indicates most voters would repeal it.

It’s too early to assess Oregon’s mushroom legalization.

Oregon Psilocybin Services spent two years developing regulations and began accepting license applications in January. There are now 10 licensed service centers, four growers, two testing labs and dozens of facilitators.

While Epic Healing Eugene has a long waiting list, thanks in part to early media attention, other service centers say business is picking up as awareness spreads.

Omnia Group Ashland, which opened this month in southern Oregon, has a prospective client list of 150, said co-founder Brian Lindley. Jeanette Small, the owner of Lucid Cradle in Bend, said she intends to see only one client per week to give close attention to each and is already booked through December.

The law allows local jurisdictions to ban psilocybin operations, and several rural counties have done so.

There are complaints that the cost is too high, but those in the industry expect prices to fall as more businesses are established. A client can wind up paying more than $2,000, which helps cover service center expenses, a facilitator and lab-tested psilocybin. Annual licenses for service centers and growers cost $10,000, with a half-price discount for veterans.

Allbee said her agency requires every licensee to work toward social equity goals, with some already providing sliding-scale price models. She expects Oregon’s psilocybin program, currently receiving millions in taxpayer dollars, to be fully supported by licensing fees by mid-2025. She promised to then boost efforts to lower prices.

Cathy Jonas, Epic Healing Eugene’s owner, said she doesn’t expect her center to start making money for a while. Providing legal access to psychedelic mushrooms is a calling, she said: “The plant medicines have communicated to me that I’m supposed to be doing this thing.”

State regulations allow doses of up to 50 milligrams, but when Jonas tested a 35-milligram sample of pure psilocybin — typically equal to about six grams of dried mushrooms — she found it so powerful that she decided it would be the strongest dose her facility would offer.

One of Jonas’ first clients took 35 milligrams and described seeing a “kind of infinite-dimension fractal that just kept turning and twisting.”

“It was kind of mesmerizing to watch, but it got so intense,” said the client, who didn’t want to be identified in order to protect his privacy. “I started to have this experience of dying and being reborn. And then I would kind of see large portions of my life going by in a very rapid way.”

He said the session “was not particularly pleasant,” but that it beneficially transformed how he views painful memories and provided a sought-after mystical experience.

Licensed grower Gared Hansen has come full circle from the 16 years he spent as a police officer in San Francisco. He once busted a psilocybin dealer in Golden Gate Park.

Today, he runs Uptown Fungus, a one-person psilocybin-growing operation in a nondescript building set among towering cedar trees near Springfield, Ore. He tends mushroom varieties with names such as Golden Teacher, Blue Meanies and Pink Buffalo. A 25-milligram dose costs $125.

Hansen said he sometimes meditates with the mushrooms, hoping to imbue them with healing energy.

Little brown psychedelic mushrooms can be found growing in fields or in the woods, but they can closely resemble poisonous varieties. Hansen and others caution against obtaining psilocybin cheaper on the black market or tripping alone. Service centers provide measured — and often strong — doses in a controlled environment.

“Sometimes part of the healing could be a negative experience someone has to go through, to kind of flush negative emotions out or re-experience some trauma in a healthier way,” Hansen said. “I’d hate to have someone that’s never tried it before take it home, have a bad trip and hurt themselves.”


Extras: Filter Print Post Top
OfflineJFlowMan
Stranger

Registered: 08/02/09
Posts: 76
Last seen: 11 days, 9 hours
Re: Thousands sign up to experience ‘magic mushrooms’ in Oregon’s psilocybin experiment [Re: veggie]
    #28473807 - 09/18/23 02:19 PM (4 months, 7 days ago)

I'd love to hear a first hand account of the clinical set and setting if anyone here manages to get in. The research was amazingly promising on helping to heal mental disorders.


Extras: Filter Print Post Top
OfflineDreamStoneLFOD
 User Gallery
Registered: 07/23/21
Posts: 56
Last seen: 16 days, 15 hours
Re: Thousands sign up to experience ‘magic mushrooms’ in Oregon’s psilocybin experiment [Re: veggie]
    #28474457 - 09/18/23 11:25 PM (4 months, 7 days ago)

The $2,000 cost is pretty disheartening but I won't complain much. This is the right direction at least. What an amazing time we are all in that a once Cop doing horrible things like bust someone for mushrooms only to one day sell them back to people. I'm glad that woman is openly saying that the mushrooms have communicated with her because they can and I truly believe they have our attention finally.


--------------------
Peace🤘


Edited by DreamStoneLFOD (09/18/23 11:26 PM)


Extras: Filter Print Post Top
OfflineB Traven
Stranger
Male User Gallery


Registered: 03/10/20
Posts: 2,478
Loc: Central Megalopolis
Last seen: 8 hours, 15 minutes
Re: Thousands sign up to experience ‘magic mushrooms’ in Oregon’s psilocybin experiment [Re: DreamStoneLFOD] * 1
    #28474597 - 09/19/23 06:00 AM (4 months, 6 days ago)

At long last, people in Oregon can try tripping on mushrooms.


--------------------
Beware of advice- even this.


Extras: Filter Print Post Top
InvisibleveggieM

Registered: 07/25/04
Posts: 17,501
Re: Thousands sign up to experience ‘magic mushrooms’ in Oregon’s psilocybin experiment [Re: B Traven] * 1
    #28474952 - 09/19/23 12:14 PM (4 months, 6 days ago)

"At long last, people in Oregon can try tripping on mushrooms."

Haha. Yes, those with an extra $2500 burning a hole in their pocket can get in line to experience a mushroom trip.

Meanwhile everyone else will continue to grow their own and trip whenver they want, just as they have done for decades.


Extras: Filter Print Post Top
OfflineB Traven
Stranger
Male User Gallery


Registered: 03/10/20
Posts: 2,478
Loc: Central Megalopolis
Last seen: 8 hours, 15 minutes
Re: Thousands sign up to experience ‘magic mushrooms’ in Oregon’s psilocybin experiment [Re: veggie] * 1
    #28474963 - 09/19/23 12:24 PM (4 months, 6 days ago)

Not to mention, all the wild psilocybes lol


--------------------
Beware of advice- even this.


Extras: Filter Print Post Top
OfflineJFlowMan
Stranger

Registered: 08/02/09
Posts: 76
Last seen: 11 days, 9 hours
Re: Thousands sign up to experience ‘magic mushrooms’ in Oregon’s psilocybin experiment [Re: B Traven] * 1
    #28475972 - 09/20/23 07:09 AM (4 months, 5 days ago)

Quote:

B Traven said:
At long last, people in Oregon can try tripping on mushrooms.




There's a giant amount of people that would never use mushrooms, but will stuff themselves full of 20 medications from their doctor. I don't think we're really the target audience :laugh:

This is great either way though.


Extras: Filter Print Post Top
OfflineJourneyKitchen
Stranger
 User Gallery

Registered: 10/29/18
Posts: 19
Last seen: 3 months, 15 days
Re: Thousands sign up to experience ‘magic mushrooms’ in Oregon’s psilocybin experiment [Re: JFlowMan]
    #28476129 - 09/20/23 09:15 AM (4 months, 5 days ago)

15 year-old me is beaming with happiness at this news.


Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Jump to top Pages: 1

Shop: North Spore North Spore Mushroom Grow Kits & Cultivation Supplies   Mushroom-Hut Mono Tub Substrate   Left Coast Kratom Buy Kratom Extract   Kraken Kratom Kratom Capsules for Sale   PhytoExtractum Kratom Powder for Sale   Unfolding Nature Unfolding Nature: Being in the Implicate Order   Original Sensible Seeds Bulk Cannabis Seeds


Similar ThreadsPosterViewsRepliesLast post
* Did Jesus Eat Magic Mushrooms At Last Supper?
( 1 2 all )
YthanA 18,209 31 12/07/20 02:06 PM
by Holybullshit
* Alarm over magic mushroom sale motamanM 8,195 14 07/27/03 12:16 AM
by HarvestTheBrain
* Golf course over-run with magic mushroom hunters motamanM 8,914 11 04/18/20 07:17 PM
by meepins
* Massive magic mushroom seizure city's largest motamanM 13,356 6 05/13/03 11:53 AM
by daba
* Magic Mushroom facts (ABC radio interview, Australia) ferret 4,522 5 06/15/03 04:47 AM
by Sheepish
* [NV] Two Las Vegas men arrested after attempting to sell 100 pounds of magic mushrooms veggieM 629 12 09/18/23 11:48 PM
by B Traven
* Sacred Sexuality and the Psychedelic Experience motamanM 16,496 3 02/22/09 12:02 AM
by veggie
* On sale: 'mind-blowing' mushrooms motamanM 3,786 3 07/01/03 11:32 AM
by Anonymous

Extra information
You cannot start new topics / You cannot reply to topics
HTML is disabled / BBCode is enabled
Moderator: motaman, veggie, Alan Rockefeller, Mostly_Harmless
729 topic views. 0 members, 5 guests and 2 web crawlers are browsing this forum.
[ Show Images Only | Sort by Score | Print Topic ]
Search this thread:

Copyright 1997-2024 Mind Media. Some rights reserved.

Generated in 0.023 seconds spending 0.004 seconds on 13 queries.