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With Magic Mushrooms, Small Businesses Lead

Posted by Hugh on August 4, 2022, at 11:43:47

An underground economy is thriving as laws around the illegal fungi loosen. Here's how businesses are rushing to take advantage of the changing paradigms on psilocybin.

It's hard to miss the bright green banner draped over Vancouver's Coca Leaf Café that declares: MUSHROOM DISPENSARY. Inside, aging hippies, solitary businessmen, and streetwear-clad youth peruse glass cases filled with a dozen strains of "magic" mushrooms with names such as Penis Envy and Jedi Mind Trick. Also on the menu at the little shop in the city's rapidly gentrifying Chinatown are mushroom chocolates and microdosing capsules, as well as more advanced offerings including LSD tinctures and vape cartridges containing DMT (the active ingredient in ayahuasca). To make a purchase, flash an ID, sign a health form, buy a product, and -- if inclined -- leave a Google review.

Magic mushrooms are moving from the margins to the mainstream. In the past two years, at least six 'shroom dispensaries have opened in Vancouver, which has become a key testing ground for broader policy reform and where hard drugs will soon be decriminalized. Similar -- albeit more discreet -- shops are opening in US cities where mushrooms have been decriminalized, such as Oakland, Calif., and Portland, Ore.

Commercial sales are still illegal in the US and Canada, but these black-market businesses operate through loopholes including religious freedom exemptions, gifting programs, and pop-up events. Digital sellers proliferate on social media, where anonymous accounts openly hawk heavily branded wares.

Magic mushrooms are the breakout star of the burgeoning psychedelic revolution around mental health and wellness. Psilocybin -- the main hallucinogenic compound in more than 180 mushroom strains -- has shown impressive results for conditions such as depression, anxiety, and drug and alcohol addiction that have long been resistant to established medical treatments.

A study published in Nature in July also found that those ingesting psilocybin mushrooms in small quantities -- a technique known as microdosing -- reported better moods and mental health. Likewise, popular media coverage such as Paul Stamets's Fantastic Fungi documentary and Michael Pollan's book How to Change Your Mind (now a buzzy Netflix series) has helped broaden acceptance of these substances as tools for self-optimization.

The vast grassroots movement to decriminalize psilocybin mushrooms is pressing the issue. After Denver led the way in 2019, Oakland, Washington, Detroit, Seattle, and Santa Cruz, Calif., soon followed. Fifteen cities or municipalities have now done it, and similar bills are being considered statewide in California, Hawaii, and New Jersey. Although current laws protect only personal psychedelic use, decriminalization is fostering a climate in which underground operators are engaging in sales, distribution, and direct or auxiliary services with increasing boldness.

Other industry insiders report the rise of community circles where psychedelics are administered by underground healers, as well as pop-up farmers markets and "seshes" -- covert events where attendees pay an entry fee and are able to purchase mushrooms directly from growers.

Full article:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-07-21/shrooms-psilocybin-psychedelics-black-market-business-moves-to-mainstream

 

Re: With Magic Mushrooms, Small Businesses Lead

Posted by TriedEveryMedication on August 4, 2022, at 19:30:43

In reply to With Magic Mushrooms, Small Businesses Lead, posted by Hugh on August 4, 2022, at 11:43:47

Oakland has a "church" that sells magic mushrooms to its members. To become a member you just fill out a form. I think they only sell in person, though.

https://zidedoor.com/

 

Re: With Magic Mushrooms, Small Businesses Lead » TriedEveryMedication

Posted by Hugh on August 5, 2022, at 11:01:36

In reply to Re: With Magic Mushrooms, Small Businesses Lead, posted by TriedEveryMedication on August 4, 2022, at 19:30:43

Imagine a church that preaches the stoned ape hypothesis. That's my kind of church!

https://vimeo.com/343659014

> Oakland has a "church" that sells magic mushrooms to its members. To become a member you just fill out a form. I think they only sell in person, though.
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> https://zidedoor.com/

 

Re: With Magic Mushrooms, Small Businesses Lead » Hugh

Posted by Jay2112 on August 5, 2022, at 16:33:32

In reply to Re: With Magic Mushrooms, Small Businesses Lead » TriedEveryMedication, posted by Hugh on August 5, 2022, at 11:01:36

Hmmm. VERY, very good stuff!! I am wondering about cannabis, because I have been using every morning and evening for months, and the effects are incredible! I take THC tabs...10mg, 2x a day.(WITH my meds) The edible THC has some psychedelic effects too, at times. I feel like I am at a place BEFORE my trauma happened. I lost a partner and a child, and the fear factor and PTSD fears have been reduced by about 70-80 percent, based on my journal entries. I get up, don't feel 'stoned', but just a level ground with fear and such. I sleep in a bit more, but I just go with how I feel. And, it's comfortable...not PERFECT...but I don't want that...just to close down my fear factor, and the dread that accompanies it, and 70-80 percent is good by me!!

Before I move on to mushrooms, I am gonna stay with the cannabis. (That's all I can barely afford right now.lol.)

Anyhow....here is an interesting article on cannabis and evolution and genetics:
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abg2286

Jay


> Imagine a church that preaches the stoned ape hypothesis. That's my kind of church!
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> https://vimeo.com/343659014
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> > Oakland has a "church" that sells magic mushrooms to its members. To become a member you just fill out a form. I think they only sell in person, though.
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> > https://zidedoor.com/
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Re: With Magic Mushrooms, Small Businesses Lead

Posted by beckett2 on August 6, 2022, at 18:46:29

In reply to Re: With Magic Mushrooms, Small Businesses Lead » TriedEveryMedication, posted by Hugh on August 5, 2022, at 11:01:36

> Imagine a church that preaches the stoned ape hypothesis. That's my kind of church!
>

Hugh, I've forgotten if you've tried microdosing mushrooms, lsd, or any other psychedlic.

 

Re: With Magic Mushrooms, Small Businesses Lead » beckett2

Posted by Hugh on August 7, 2022, at 12:02:57

In reply to Re: With Magic Mushrooms, Small Businesses Lead, posted by beckett2 on August 6, 2022, at 18:46:29

I haven't tried microdosing. When I've taken magic mushrooms and LSD, the doses have always been high enough to cause hallucinations.

I really like Ayelet Waldman's description of her microdosing experience.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shTtiNewL3E

 

Re: With Magic Mushrooms, Small Businesses Lead » Jay2112

Posted by Hugh on August 7, 2022, at 12:36:24

In reply to Re: With Magic Mushrooms, Small Businesses Lead » Hugh, posted by Jay2112 on August 5, 2022, at 16:33:32

That's great about how well you're doing on cannabis.

An interesting article. I didn't realize that cannabis was domesticated during the early Neolithic Period.

A fellow Canadian named Paul Swingle might be able to build on the improvements you've made in your PTSD treatment. He's a highly respected neurofeedback clinician in Vancouver who sells digital downloads of bilateral auditory stimulation programs he's designed to treat PTSD, anxiety, depression. These programs were inspired by EMDR, and most people who try them find bilateral auditory stimulation more helpful than the eye movements and/or tapping used in EMDR. Swingle's programs cost 16 dollars (Canadian). They should be listened to with headphones, at low volume, with eyes closed.

ProSweep has three tracks -- slow, medium, fast. The slow track is the gentlest, the fast track is the most intense.

https://www.soundhealthproducts.com/products/prosweep-bilateral-auditory-stimulator

People who have difficulty tolerating ProSweep are likelier to be able to tolerate Swingle's Serene-Sweep program.

https://www.soundhealthproducts.com/products/serene-sweep-aid-for-anxiety-poor-stress-tolerance

 

Re: With Magic Mushrooms, Small Businesses Lead » Hugh

Posted by beckett2 on August 7, 2022, at 22:19:09

In reply to Re: With Magic Mushrooms, Small Businesses Lead » beckett2, posted by Hugh on August 7, 2022, at 12:02:57

> I haven't tried microdosing. When I've taken magic mushrooms and LSD, the doses have always been high enough to cause hallucinations.
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> I really like Ayelet Waldman's description of her microdosing experience.
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> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shTtiNewL3E
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Thank you!

 

Re: With Magic Mushrooms, Small Businesses Lead » beckett2

Posted by Hugh on August 9, 2022, at 12:08:16

In reply to Re: With Magic Mushrooms, Small Businesses Lead » Hugh, posted by beckett2 on August 7, 2022, at 22:19:09

You're welcome. I found the This American Life piece that Waldman mentions in the microdosing video. It's about how her father handed her some cassette tapes of psychotherapy sessions he'd had with Albert Ellis 30 years earlier, and what Waldman learned about her father from listening to them. When I went through my cognitive-behavioral therapy phase, I must have read a dozen of Ellis's books.

https://www.thisamericanlife.org/540/a-front/act-three-0

 

Re: With Magic Mushrooms, Small Businesses Lead

Posted by Hugh on August 18, 2022, at 23:15:47

In reply to Re: With Magic Mushrooms, Small Businesses Lead, posted by TriedEveryMedication on August 4, 2022, at 19:30:43

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Yx5lcUyKaA


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