A new anesthetic age dawn in America

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One cold night on Saturday, a group of volunteers stood at the door of a large building in the center of San Francisco and welcomed the visitors at a “plant” party and promised to heal the bodies and lives.

Despite the late hour, this was definitely not a party. You can say this by Gongs, incense and calm. The organizers said it was an opportunity for “deliberate transformation.” Once it entered, the participants were directed to an area on the floor of a lit studio and delivered a small piece of “Magic Mycelium” – also known as Magic Mushroom.

The possession of this article is not legal in San Francisco – but you will not know this from the number of celebrations that take place throughout the city. In the Tnderloin region, an organization called the living church announces “breathing in the Church of Al -Fitr”. Throughout the city, the Embrolate Church attracted attention last year to present the magic mushroom as part of the secret. Founder Dave Hodges told the local news site SF Gate that his group has grown to more than 115,000.

Throughout America, interest in the characteristics of Psilocybin, the anesthetic component in the magic mushroom, has reached a record level. According to a study published by internal medicine records in April, More than 2 percent of adults I mentioned the mushrooms by 2023 – more than the number that admits the use of cocaine.

Among the founders participating in Openai, Sam Al -Tamman, co -founder of Openai, who described his experiences as “fully true” and Peter Thil, who support the science of narcotic biological tester. Elon Musk has She denied a recent report It consumes abundant drugs, including mushrooms. However, he told one of the interview last year that he took the ketamine – anesthetic with narcotic properties – “once every week or something like that.”

The most bustling narcotic supporters say that their focus is healing, not height. They claim that the hallucinogenic celosipine produces calm anxiety and benefit from a permanent sense of peace. Author Michael Bolan, who participated in establishing California University Center in Berkeley for narcotic Sciences (BCSP), written once that it could relieve “Existential“.

Clinical experiments show that Psilocybin increases Entropia brain (A measure of the complexity of brain activity), which leads to the disruption of existing patterns. In other words, it can help you with that Think in different ways. (You can see why this might be common in people in the technology sector who are proud of new ideas.)

At the San Francisco factory party, the group spent four hours lying down without speaking. After that, one of them described seeing the visions of the forest. Another said that she saw her grandmother. Most of them looked cheerful, if spacing a little, as they came through the doors and directed to the house.

With the growth of the public interest in mushrooms, legal barriers are relaxed. In April, Colorado released its first license to the Denver Buslelemenin Center for recovery. Oregon and Colorado voted to legitimize the therapeutic use of the Celosipine program (although a number of cities in Oregon later chose its ban.) Auckland in California has canceled the drug.

The history of the experiment in California may indicate that the entire state will take a positive approach to mushrooms. The smell of weeds is much more prevalent than cigarette smoke (California residents really really hate cigarettes). But in 2022, Governor Gavin Newsom made a proposal to cancel hallucinations due to fears of no guidance. At the end of last year, the Church of Ambrosia announced that it would close its position in San Francisco: The city’s planning department has accused her of safety violations.

Polan believes that the route of federal approval is clinical, not entertaining. A study by BCSP found that six out of 10 voters were supporting therapeutic access to narcotic therapy, especially for those who suffer from peripheral diseases (80 percent), and the warriors (69 percent) and depression (67 %). There is still a need to persuade activists to legalize that magic mushrooms are better used to support than spacing.

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