psilocybin

Can a Religious Exemption Boost Legal Psilocybin Access in Oregon?

Within weeks, the Oregon Health Authority (OHA) is expected to finalize the first official rules for how its legal psilocybin…

April 27, 2022

The Mission to Make Psilocybin Available to UK Cancer Patients

“I was involved in oncology when I was a medic,” Dr. Malcolm Barratt-Johnson told Filter, “and in all honesty, the…

April 25, 2022

Maryland Advances Bill to Fund Psychedelics Access for Veterans

Maryland lawmakers sent a bill to the governor on April 8 that would create a state fund to provide “cost-free”…

April 11, 2022

Connecticut Could Open East Coast’s First Psychedelic Medicine Centers

Connecticut lawmakers have proposed a bill that would create the first psychedelic medicine centers on the East Coast. The bill…

March 24, 2022

Are Business Interests Shaping Oregon’s Psilocybin Regulations?

A top adviser to the Oregon state government on its legal psilocybin therapy program has quit amid complaints that he…

March 17, 2022

How Will Oregon Teach and Train Psilocybin Healers?

In November 2020, Oregon voters approved a ballot initiative, Measure 109, to legalize psilocybin for therapeutic use. We're now well…

February 25, 2022

Cubes to Wood Lovers’ Paralysis: Oregon’s Therapeutic Psilocybin Plan

On February 8, Oregon officials proposed the first set of rules to regulate legal psilocybin therapy in Oregon. The state's…

February 18, 2022

How Port Townsend, Washington, Decriminalized Psychedelics

On December 20, the City Council of Port Townsend, a small city in Jefferson County, Washington, voted unanimously to decriminalize…

January 19, 2022

Is 2022 the Year California Decriminalizes Psychedelics?

California may pass legislation decriminalizing psychedelics before the year is out. Senate Bill 519 would decriminalize personal possession of small…

January 12, 2022

Canada Allows Three Mental Health Patients to Access Psilocybin Therapy

Canada's top health agency has agreed to allow an additional three people to use psilocybin mushrooms, a naturally-occurring psychedelic, as…

December 16, 2021