Two leaders in the mushroom supplement industry, Paul Stamets and Jeff Chilton, had been friends since the 1970s. Then they got into a feud about a seemingly simple question that is anything but… What constitutes a mushroom? For @latimes https://t.co/RppWm3vA2o

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#AlphaNoonerReplay 8-28-25 with Mattha Busby @matthabusby Psychedelic and Health Journalist, Author, and Speaker with Mackenzie Peterson @mpadvisorshares talking #Health #Drugs #Psychedelics #subculture 🍄

Human design, which places people into archetypal personality types, is approaching a high-watermark cultural moment. In the new season of Love is Blind: UK, a human design coach propels the phrase 'trust your spleen' into the zeitgeist For @WIRED https://t.co/f9mRBbF3hD

Kudos to @matthabusby for writing this much needed piece about challenging psychedelic experiences (& the CPE project - https://t.co/AfGP0CsruR) and their potential for extended difficulties. Including a quote from my good s'elf. https://t.co/rCjRKsUttR

From Dorset, @matthabusby reports on a bee-centred sex cult. Yes, really. https://t.co/2poxFyxPCN

Inside: legends like Marley, Bukowski, Burroughs, @cheechandchong... + new voices from @jacqbryant @DannyDanko @rggb_ @matthabusby @RDeevoy @CannabisHoje @Steve_DeAngelo @NORML @JasonSilva 💚 50 years in and this is only the beginning. 👉 https://t.co/3sDA5sGIET

Is there no such thing as a bad trip, or can they actually be traumatizing? This debate is playing out in the psychedelics field ‘Most young adults who get cancer feel they experienced personal growth. That doesn’t mean you want them to get cancer.’ https://t.co/81mBve0wP8

“The crux of this whole issue is drug prohibition, that’s what’s causing the spikes of death – it’s the volatility of the drug supply. Someone should be giving people drugs with predictable contents... ..& then I thought, Well, fuck it, I’ll just do that” https://t.co/9ZHmnryEz3

“Why can’t these fuckers stand people living in the way they want?” says Mike Castagnola. He was legally growing marijuana for medical purposes but the government still sent machinery to his commune-like property to demolish “unpermitted structures.”

“My rights were violated—plain and simple,” says Jeremy Freitas. He was licensed to grow cannabis but was charged fines of $10,000 per day because the state required practices that were not allowed under his county permit.

“I pretty much lost everything,” says Keni Meyer. Authorities didn’t find marijuana on her property but they fined her hundreds of thousands of dollars and eventually evicted her over alleged building code violations.

“I felt like I was going to die,” says Esteban Diaz. He had a heart attack in the courtroom from the stress brought on by trying to fight off cannabis fines for his chili pepper growing operation.

Officials in California used drones to look for illegal marijuana growing operations. Instead, they often found building code violations. The government slapped residents with six-figure fines, foreclosures, and evictions—even for some who didn’t grow any marijuana. Coming soon

I went nutria hunting in the swamp:

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‘The criminal infrastructure built principally for cocaine is increasingly facilitating illegal deforestation, timber trafficking, and illegal gold mining.’ Latest for Atmos

Pharmaceutical company AbbVie to buy Gilgamesh depression drug program for up to $1.2 billion; Kentucky committee discusses ibogaine; and Colorado listening session on Natural Medicine Program

Psychedelic experiences are leaving people feeling less rigid about notions of sexuality and arousal “The drug isn’t ‘making’ someone bisexual, polyamorous, or gender expansive, but creates a window to explore what was already there.” New for SOM: https://t.co/sWeBmYef0w

Full story by @matthabusby for @States_of_Mind https://t.co/832XFze9rz #Psychedelics #Gender #Sexuality

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