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Church of the Eagle and the Condor can now drink ayahuasca legally in the U.S.

May 7, 2024 | By Peter Schulte | -, Good News Links

Ayahuasca is a psychoactive brew traditionally used by Indigenous cultures in the Amazon and Orinoco. It is now often used to help treat depression, PTSD, trauma, and other mental illnesses and to promote spiritual and emotional development. The Church of the Eagle and the Condor is officially the first non-Christian church in the U.S to obtain legal protections to use it as a sacrament.

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Nearly 9 in 10 Americans now think using psilocybin is ‘morally positive,’ in dramatic shift in public opinion

March 18, 2024 | By Peter Schulte | -, Good News Links

Researchers—representing institutions such as the universities of Oxford, Yale, Johns Hopkins, and Grenada—surveyed 795 people on the issue, asking about supervised use specifically for treatment and for well-being enhancement. Participants, the report says, “rated the individual’s decision as morally positive in both contexts.” The study is of note because although psilocybin “has shown promise both as a treatment for psychiatric conditions and as a means of improving well-being in healthy individuals,” authors wrote.

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First-of-its-kind study reveals how psilocybin helps treat alcohol dependence

June 20, 2023 | By Peter Schulte | -, Good News Links

“Participants reported that the psilocybin treatment helped them process emotions related to painful past events and helped promote states of self-compassion, self-awareness, and feelings of interconnectedness,” the authors wrote.

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Oregon licenses U.S.’s first-ever legal psilocybin facilitators

May 9, 2023 | By Peter Schulte | -, Good News Links

Oregon regulators announced on April 18 that they have approved the nation’s first state-licensed psilocybin facilitators to administer the psychedelic to adults at regulated facilities.

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Oregon approves the U.S.’s first legal psilocybin mushroom farms

April 4, 2023 | By Peter Schulte | -, Good News Links

Oregon is gearing up for the first legal U.S. psilocybin journeys outside of medical trials later this year: The state just licensed its first legal growers and facilitators, who graduated from approved training programs.

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Church of the Eagle and the Condor can now drink ayahuasca legally in the U.S.

Nearly 9 in 10 Americans now think using psilocybin is ‘morally positive,’ in dramatic shift in public opinion

First-of-its-kind study reveals how psilocybin helps treat alcohol dependence

Oregon licenses U.S.’s first-ever legal psilocybin facilitators

Oregon approves the U.S.’s first legal psilocybin mushroom farms

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