Massachusetts Psychiatric Society Raises Concerns on Psychedelics Ballot Question
Massachusetts Psychiatric Society has many outstanding questions regarding the impacts this Initiative Petition would have on providers, including insurance coverage, and the impact to specific population subsets such as maternal or perinatal health. The doctors further explained their opposition by noting the broad nature of this Initiative Petition, the lack of concrete research or results […]
DUI Fatal Crashes Increase by over 50% in Massachusetts
· Unfortunately, several states had substantial jumps. Alaska saw a 100% increase, while the District of Columbia, Idaho, Massachusetts, and Delaware all recorded increases above 50%.· Link: https://www.safehome.org/resources/dui-statistics/#:~:text=Between%202020%20and%202021%2C%20there,all%20recorded%20increases%20above%2050%25.
Cartoon packaging and an ‘inconsolable’ high: when magic mushroom chocolate gets into the wrong hands
· As grey-market psilocybin sweets grow more popular in the US, doctors warn of risks to unsuspecting kids· Link: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/jun/12/mushrooms-chocolate-psilocybin-psychedelics-children
Oregon’s Legal Psilocybin Program Gets Taxpayer Funds Despite Promise to Pay Its Own Way
· “The promise was that taxpayers wouldn’t be on the hook for this,” says Dr. Mason Marks, a senior fellow at Harvard Law School’s Project on Psychedelics Law and Regulation. “That was the promise to voters.”…Marks knows the Oregon system because he served on the Oregon Psilocybin Advisory Board for a year, and he’s […]
Alarming reports of life-threatening complications and sudden death cases…associated with the administration of ibogaine, have been accumulating.
· Ibogaine certainly affects the heart and the cardiovascular system. Besides lowering the heart rate, therapeutic concentrations of the alkaloid interact with cardiac ion channels, and these effects most likely determine ibogaine’s potentially life-threatening cardiotoxicity. Due to the longevity of noribogaine—ibogaine’s active metabolite—in human plasma, cardiac adverse events may also occur several days, […]
How Psychedelic Research Got High on Its Own Supply
· Western medicine’s promotion of psychedelics…oversold hope to the most vulnerable among us while fueling an industry that was once projected to be worth over $7 billion by 2029…He described his organization’s focus on veterans as a calculated public relations move…The actual data on psychedelics for mental health tend to fall short of […]
Off-duty pilot charged after psychedelic mushroom-induced ‘breakdown’
· Emerson said it was his “first time taking mushrooms,” according to the probable cause statement.· Link: https://www.bellevuereporter.com/northwest/off-duty-pilot-charged-after-psychedelic-mushroom-induced-breakdown/
Brookline Teen On Mushrooms Jumps From Window As Students Are Targeted In Drug Deals
· A Brookline teen who bought illegal “magic mushrooms” from an accused local drug dealer suffered severe injuries when he became disoriented and jumped from a sixth-story window.· Link: https://patch.com/massachusetts/brookline/brookline-teen-jumps-window-students-targeted-drug-deals
Massachusetts Legislative Report Exposes Loophole on the Psychedelics Ballot Initiative
The petition would allow Massachusetts residents to carry many doses of psychoactive mushrooms on their person or in their home at one time. It therefore presumably allows an unlicensed cultivator to “gift” individuals certain doses and is silent on the ability of cultivators to charge for overseeing that use or guiding the user through the […]
