Is that due to the costs of healing centers? Is there a path to expand consciousness on a budget (but le- gally - other than growing their own)? Yes, regulated psilocybin is expensive at this time, usually $2k-4500 for a single session with prep and integration. The cheapest path is the work in the [decrim- inalized] area where people can share medicine for free and be paid for harm re- duction services like trip sitting. You can likely find a sitter who will share medicine in the unregulated personal use world for a few hundred dollars. The only state that really allows broad access is Colorado with its decriminal- ization. You can grow mushrooms at home for 20-30 bucks. And that's why we have the most progressive broadspread access of anybody in the country. What goes on at healing centers that makes them legitimate? Is it just ob- servation or is there more customiza- tion? 150 hours of training, licensing, and oversight if people misbehave. The whole difference of regulated healing centers is accountability. The state regulates heal- ing centers and can punish bad actors. Are there any unheard-of psychedel- ics just emerging as a new frontier? Do you have any opinion on synthet- ics, or any other non-natural alterna- tives? There are many unheard of or novel psychedelics emerging in the church world. Whether they could achieve rec- ognition with these substances is a case by case assessment. If a substance has a similar chemical structure and effect as a controlled substance, it would be con-
Everywhere, they're talking about these topics. I think Maryland just recommend- ed psilocybin regulated at the state lev- el. New Jersey, I think, passed a bill. I'm not sure if it's final yet. Texas created a study project on iboga. Utah has a psi- locybin study project. So you see a lot of progress around the country, but I would say that the haters are trying to turn psy- chedelics into a medicine and put it in a medical context. That's why they want studies in Utah and Texas with medical supervision. And that's going to push us farther into this bifurcated, rich-get psychedelics-poor-don't. Until we have broadspread decriminalization around the country, it's going to still be tough for people without a lot of money to get ac- cess to it. I would say this is definitely the psyche- delic renaissance. I say the word renais- sance on purpose, because remember, the Renaissance was a time for rich peo- ple to have access to nice things. And so clearly rich people don't have any prob- lem with access to psychedelics in the US and we can go to Mexico and Costa Rica and Jamaica and Holland and right here in the US we could spend thousands of dollars on psilocybin journeys. STATE OF PSYCHEDELICS continued from page 17
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