On Tuesday, November 21, 2023 at 8:19:48 PM UTC-8, bfh wrote:
Technobarbarian wrote:
"Oregon launches legal psilocybin, known as "magic mushrooms"
access to the public SEPTEMBER 16, 2023 / 9:36 AM EDT / CBS/AP"
"Oregon has taken an unprecedented step in offering psilocybin,
also known as magic mushrooms, to the public. Epic Healing Eugene - America's first licensed psilocybin service center - opened in
June, marking Oregon's unprecedented step in offering the
mind-bending drug to the public. The center now has a waitlist of
more than 3,000 names, including people with depression, PTSD or end-of-life dread.
No prescription or referral is needed, but proponents hope Oregon's legalization will spark a revolution in mental health care. Clients
do not need to live in Oregon to access psilocybin services but
must be 21 years of age or older, said the state's Oregon
Psilocybin Services. A preparation session must be completed with a licensed facilitator, the agency said."
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/oregon-legal-psilocybin-known-as-magic-mushrooms-public-access/
We have all sorts of wild mushrooms here. I've had "magic"
mushrooms pop up in my backyard.
Have any facilitators popped up there?
Anyone who wants them can go out
and find all they want just about anytime we have relatively warm
and wet weather. The biggest healthiest patch I've ever seen was
growing on city park land in Portland.
Pretty soon there'll probably be some healthy (financially) patches of service centers and facilitators popping up in Oregon.
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bill
Theory don't mean squat if it don't work.
Maybe I wasn't clear, or maybe I don't completely understand what you're saying? We already have that. Another service center is opening in Portland soon.
"PORTLAND Ore. (KPTV) - Portlanders will soon be able to experience professionally facilitated psilocybin, or “magic mushrooms”, in a new facility on the Central Eastside.
“Where we’re at today is the end of a long journey and the beginning of a new one,” Tom Eckert, the co-founder of InnerTrek, said.
Eckert and Rachel Aidan are the co-founders of InnerTrek, which now has a center for professional psilocybin therapy in the Fair-haired Dumbbell building.
The open space for group sessions has big couches and beautiful murals, with a view overlooking the Burnside Bridge. They also have private rooms for individual sessions.
They will be offering one, three and five-day sessions that typically last all day.
“At the moment, for example, one day group which would include screening, intake, preparation, the daylong session and integration is about $850, and it goes around from there,” Aidan said.
https://www.kptv.com/2023/11/22/portlands-first-psilocybin-therapy-facility-open-january/
They say they have about 1,000 people who are interested in "treatment".
"While some form of legalized marijuana is authorized in all but 12 states, creating a huge, multi-billion-dollar industry, the psilocybin market remains small, with an uncertain financial outlook for those entering it. Only five businesses are approved
to manufacture the therapeutic-use fungi in Oregon, with 13 sites approved to host dosing sessions.
Bend is home to two of them. One offers a treatment experience that costs as much as $15,000, including several days spent getting to know the facilitator and the townhome-like space where the treatment takes place. Mr. Beck, who lives in Bend, connected
with another organization known as Bendable, a nonprofit that helps coordinate treatment and asks clients to pay what they can afford.
A single session costs about $3,000, which includes a preparatory meeting, a guided session with the mushrooms that lasts several hours, and a follow-up appointment a few days later in which the client discusses lessons from the session and how to
integrate them into their other therapy."
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/23/us/oregon-psychedelic-mushrooms.html
Bend was an obvious choice for this. It's a very trendy city. You could easily combine some "therapy" with a fun vacation.
Back in the days when I was living in the Bend area, late in the last century, the high school football team played a game in Pleasant Hill, which is a nice little town in the countryside outside of Eugene, in the valley. Some of the kids bought
Amanita Pantheria mushrooms from the kids in Pleasant Hill, where they are easy to find, and couldn't wait until they got home to try them out. Like most, if not all, of the Amanita mushrooms the primary effect is that it's a strong muscle relaxant.
Take enough of it and you can't move. Take a bit more and you stop breathing. Some of the kids on the team bus ended up in the emergency room in Bend, but I think they all survived.
Here in the valley and in many places on the coast we have ideal conditions for many different mushrooms. There's a wave of commercial mushroom harvesters, who a primarily looking for gourmet mushrooms, that goes across the west coast in the
springtime as the season advances.
TB
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