California closer to legalizing psychedelics

ABC7, Sept. 7, 2023; GrahamHancock.com; Pat Macpherson, Dhr. Seven, Wisdom Quarterly

Then for a moment all the world made sense, and everything was just as it should be.

Psychedelics one step closer to being decriminalized in California

Newsom: I'll sign the bill for SF City to get well.

(ABC7) Various illegal psychedelics (with the potential to be healing entheogens) just got one step closer to being decriminalized in California. MAPS will be very pleased, so scientific research can move on apace.

The California State Assembly voted to legalize substances such as DMT (the "Spirit Molecule" in ayahuasca and Syrian rue, made famous in the biblical "Burning Bush" story), acid (LSD), sacred cactus (peyote, San Pedro), and "magic mushrooms" (psilocybin).

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New frontier or ancient human practice?

Were psychedelics [entheogens] used in the ancient world? Here’s the four-minute answer researcher Graham Hancock gave to that question when he was interviewed at the Glastonbury Festival (which explains the background music) in June of 2016.

The topics covered in this video are explored at length in his 2005 book Supernatural: Meetings with the Ancient Teachers of Mankind.

Women need psychedelics more than men?

Jennifer Chesak (grahamhancock.com)

Author Jennifer Chesak

Fun fact: Women report more frequent use of some psychedelics than men.

A not-so-fun fact: In the Global Drug Survey 2020 [1], women cite depression, anxiety, relationship issues, trauma, and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) as their main reasons for using psychedelics.

Additional reasons include other mental health disorders, grief, distress over medical conditions, and chronic pain.

The truth is that more women report self-treating with some psychedelics than men, whereas men (not all) tend to use psychedelics for recreational purposes.

None of this surprises me. And it’s why I wrote the Psilocybin Handbook for Women: How Magic Mushrooms, Psychedelic Therapy, and Microdosing Can Benefit Your Mental, Physical, and Spiritual Health.

I wanted to provide accurate info about psilocybin (more commonly known as magic mushrooms) and its intersection with women’s health — because our bodies are not the same, nor are our lived experiences. The following content includes excerpted material from the book. More