#Inside the Vancouver lab where scientists (legally) grow magic mushrooms 

#Inside the Vancouver lab where scientists (legally) grow magic mushrooms 

The Filament Health facility looks like something out of The Last of Us Filament founder Ben Lightburn saw an opportunity to leverage his team’s botanical extraction expertise to bring the first pharmaceutical-grade, naturally extracted psychedelics into the market. (Photos courtesy Filament) Entrepreneur Ben Lightburn became interested in psychedelics in 2018, when he read about the…

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#First evidence ‘magic’ mushrooms might be better than anti-depressants

#First evidence ‘magic’ mushrooms might be better than anti-depressants

“First evidence ‘magic’ mushrooms might be better than anti-depressants” They say money doesn’t grow on trees but perhaps magic does. Magic mushrooms have a “liberating effect” on the depressed mind, according to new research published in the journal Nature Medicine Monday, which considers how the psychedelic compound psilocybin improves mood compared to traditional drugs, and…

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#Mushrooms are trending in makeup, beauty and hair products

#Mushrooms are trending in makeup, beauty and hair products

“#Mushrooms are trending in makeup, beauty and hair products” Like black diamond truffles in the forests of Périgord, France, mushroom ingredients are cropping up in abundance in the beauty world. Once mostly a skin care phenomenon, the market for fungi-spiked merch has mushroomed, and now, alongside a crop of creams and serums, they’re finding their…

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#German mushrooms still contaminated by Chernobyl radiation

#German mushrooms still contaminated by Chernobyl radiation

“#German mushrooms still contaminated by Chernobyl radiation” Around 95% of wild mushroom samples collected in Germany in the last six years still showed radioactive contamination from the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster, albeit not above legal limits, the German food safety regulator said on Friday. Elevated concentrations of caesium-137 and caesium-134 isotopes bearing the characteristic signature of the Chernobyl blast were found especially in southern Germany,…

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#NYU launching M Center for Psychedelic Medicine in Manhattan

#NYU launching $10M Center for Psychedelic Medicine in Manhattan

“#NYU launching $10M Center for Psychedelic Medicine in Manhattan” New York University wants to expand our minds — but in a trippy new way. NYU Langone Health’s Department of Psychiatry plans to establish a Center for Psychedelic Medicine, a hallucinatory hub that will support research on treating addiction, chronic pain, opioid addiction and “existential distress”…

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#California bill would decriminalize psychedelic drugs like acid and magic mushrooms

#California bill would decriminalize psychedelic drugs like acid and magic mushrooms

“#California bill would decriminalize psychedelic drugs like acid and magic mushrooms” A bill was introduced in California Thursday that would decriminalize the personal use of psychedelic drugs like psilocybin mushrooms, MDMA, LSD, ketamine, DMT, mescaline and ibogaine for all Californians over the age of 21.  It comes on the heels of Oregon’s blockbuster drug decriminalization bill, which just went into effect…

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#Man injects ‘magic’ mushrooms and grows fungi in blood

#Man injects ‘magic’ mushrooms and grows fungi in blood

“#Man injects ‘magic’ mushrooms and grows fungi in blood” A man took to medical experimentation on himself when he decided to mainline “magic” mushrooms in order to kick his opioid use. However, when the fungi started, well, mushrooming in his bloodstream — he almost kicked the bucket. The 30-year-old, who was known to have bipolar…

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