It haz a #psychedelics wizard avatar😂

"An #AI #chatbot called “#FungiFriend” was added to a popular mushroom identification Facebook group Tuesday. It then told users there how to “sauté in butter” a potentially dangerous mushroom, signaling again the high level of risk that AI #chatbots and tools pose to people who forage for #mushrooms."

#ArtificialIntelligence Chatbot On Mushroom Foraging Facebook Group Gives Tips for Cooking Dangerous #Mushrooms
https://www.404media.co/ai-chatbot-added-to-mushroom-foraging-facebook-group-immediately-gives-tips-for-cooking-dangerous-mushroom/ #Mycology

A civilization that outlaws psychedelics is like ugly people outlawing mirrors.

https://ballotpedia.org/Massachusetts_Question_4,_Legalization_and_Regulation_of_Psychedelic_Substances_Initiative_(2024)

#Massachusetts #psychedelics #mentalhealth

"The campaign behind a prospective California ballot initiative to legalize #psychedelics filed a final revised measure with state officials this week"

"While adults would be allowed to legally grow, possess and use substances like #psilocybin, LSD, MDMA, DMT, ibogaine and mescaline under the measure, they would need physician recommendations to purchase the psychedelics at regulated stores."

https://www.marijuanamoment.net/california-campaign-to-legalize-psychedelics-submits-final-version-of-proposed-2024-ballot-measure

https://bigthink.com/the-present/dmt-beings/ The #DMT ‘elves’ people meet while tripping #psychedelics #mysticalexperience

L’Australie autorise l’usage médical de l’ecstasy et des champignons hallucinogènes

https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2023/07/01/l-australie-autorise-l-usage-medical-de-l-ecstasy-et-des-champignons-hallucinogenes_6180107_3210.html

#mdma #australie #psychedelics

Since we know #dreams happen, and that dreams within dreams happen, what are the odds that you are not in some kind of dream right now?

Claiming to be in the ultimate and true and final #reality feels a little like claiming that the sun revolves around the Earth.

I think another Enlightenment is coming.

#psychedelics

Today's apparently #MicrodoseDay, and if you are participating in any way at all, I salute you! Big fan of #microdosing #MagicMushrooms here (it's even the subject of the #NonFictionBook I'm writing). How lovely that the world has finally started to catch up to what many of us have known for a long time... that low-dose #psychedelics can steer adults toward fresh paths to better #MentalWellness, and that #microdoses can be a uniquely effective part of a modern #MentalWellnessToolkit. 🔬 🍄 🎯

https://psych.global/profile-psilocybin/?utm_medium=email&_hsmi=71894762&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-9XSgiU1RCYdb-LU8_eghSqcaf7KLplTHihF1euso_1xRn9PRhwl1bHxLyFwoo5LB-_HCCcIgUcBbOh2oqh4uSD2szigQ&utm_content=71894762&utm_source=hs_email #psychedelics #psilocybin #psychotherapy

OTD in 1943, chemist Albert Hofmann discovered the "mind-manifesting" qualities of #LSD. "LSD wanted to tell me something," he said on his 100th bday. "It gave me an inner joy, an open-mindedness, a gratefulness, open eyes and an internal sensitivity for the miracles of creation." #psychedelics

A civilization that makes #psychedelics illegal is like ugly people outlawing mirrors: The judge, jury, and defendant are the same.

Should psychedelic therapists have first-hand experience of psychedelics?

Scientists at the School of Psychology at Australian National University don't think so, but I wonder whether THEY have experience of psychedelics?

'Absent stronger evidence ... requiring trainees to take psychedelic drugs does not seem ethically legitimate.'

https://rb.gy/65dkpg
#psychedelics #psychedelic #psychedelictherapy #lsd #ketamine #psilocybin

Could psychedelics also be useful for those without mental health issues? The way psychedelics work suggest so...

"The improvement participants with depression and PTSD experience [after therapy with MDMA or psilocybin] appear related to the profound perspective changes experienced and seem unlike the improvements seen in the currently available care paradigms."

What do you think?

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36129571/

#psychedelics #mentalhealth #ptsd #depression #therapy #science