Tag: magic mushrooms
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EDITORIAL: Hallucinogen therapy’s bad trip
Whatever reservations Jacob Ramirez might have had about his “therapy” session last year using the hallucinogen psilocybin —“magic mushrooms” — he couldn’t possibly have anticipated severe head and chest injuries, months in the hospital and $2 million in medical bills. Of course, he also didn’t expect to fall from a fourth-floor window onto the pavement…
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EDITORIAL: Hallucinogens as ‘therapy’ and now, ‘sacrament’
If some want to claim that mind-bending, hazardous and potentially deadly hallucinogens offer a path to “spiritual development” — that’s actually a tenet of a new, self-described “church” profiled in The Gazette this week — well, they’re free to believe as they wish. But what hallucinogens clearly are not is medicine. They are not approved…
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Colorado Springs looks to zone ‘magic mushroom’ healing centers out of majority of the city
Colorado Springs is starting to look at how to manage and restrict facilities that can begin providing psilocybin and psychedelic treatments in the city next year. The City Council’s work session and council meeting Tuesday will include a first look at the proposed zoning regulations for natural medicine healing centers that would provide supervised doses…