The newfound recognition of psilocybin therapy as a valid treatment (for depression, anxiety, addiction and other mental health problems) has eroded old stereotypes of psilocybin as some intoxicating and hallucination-inducing party drug that drives its users insane – a reputation that largely grew out of the hippie counterculture of the 1960s when they were widely known as “psychedelic” or “magic” mushrooms.
ELIAS MARAT
SEP 22, 2020
The city of Ann Arbor, Michigan, has effectively decriminalized psilocybin or “magic” mushrooms along with other natural psychedelics.
he city of Ann Arbor, Michigan, has effectively decriminalized psilocybin or“magic”mushrooms along with other natural psychedelics in the latest sign that public opinion across the U.S. is continuing to turn against prohibitionist policies.
On Monday, the Ann Arbor City Council unanimously voted in favor of a resolution that would make it the city’s lowest-ranked law enforcement priority to the investigate or arrest anyone planting, cultivating, purchasing, transporting, distributing, using or possessing entheogenic plants or plant compounds.
The resolution applies to all psychedelics derived from plants and fungi, including psilocybin mushrooms, ayahuasca, ibogaine, mescaline, peyote and other substances with hallucinogenic properties deemed illegal under state and federal law.
The council also requires the Washtenaw County Prosecutor’s Office to halt the prosecution of those involved in the…
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The Most Revolutionary Act 
For some, these plants are good medicine..
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Indeed, Deb. I have a special interest in the role of hallucinatory plants in treating addictions and post traumatic stress disorder. Especially as there are no other good treatments as yet for these conditions.
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