Oregon May Soon Legalize the Use of Magic Mushrooms as Mental Health Treatment. Many Portlanders Aren’t Waiting. Some Portlanders are taking a more constructive approach and finding solace in a drug that at first glance seems purely escapist: psychedelic mushrooms. But talk to almost anyone who has begun tripping recently and you learn that most of them are confronting the end times, not running from them.
After 18 Years As a Navy SEAL, Chad Kuske Returned Home Depressed, Anxious and Angry. Psilocybin Therapy Saved Him. Chad Kuske admits he’s not entirely comfortable being a spokesperson for Oregon’s psilocybin therapy movement. But he’s more than willing to assume the role—because after years of seeking treatment for PTSD, it’s the only thing he’s found that worked.
Sam Chapman Is Asking Oregonians to Approve Mushrooms to Ease Depression If Measure 109 passes, it would make Oregon the first state to sanction psilocybin therapy.
Here’s What Oregon Voters Will Decide in November They could legalize mushroom therapy and decriminalize most drugs.
Proponents of Psilocybin Therapy Have Gathered Enough Signatures to Get a Legalization Measure on the November Ballot Oregon voters will get to vote this November on whether to legalize the therapeutic use of hallucinogenic mushrooms.
Soap Company Dr. Bronner’s Writes a Huge Check in Support of an Oregon Effort to Legalize Magic Mushrooms in Controlled Settings An effort to legalize psilocybin—hallucinogenic mushrooms—in controlled settings in Oregon just gained the support of California-based soap company Dr. Bronner’s.
Why Stop at One Campaign to Legalize Psychedelic Mushrooms? Oregon Has Two—and They Don’t Get Along. The leaders of Oregon’s psilocybin ballot initiative say a rogue canvasser is bent on destroying them. He says that’s nonsense.
Author Michael Pollan Is Coming to Portland to Speak About Psychedelics On May 23, food activist Michael Pollan will be in Portland talking about shrooms, LSD, Ayahuasca and DMT—and how the mind-altering substances can “relieve mental suffering.”
Here’s the Recipe Kachka Chef Bonnie Morales Made for Her Own Family at Thanksgiving “Other than getting drunk and punching each other, mushroom hunting is what we Russians love most.”