With The regulatory framework of measure 109 now in place, the start of 2023 means that Oregon is beginning to accept applications for licenses to operate in the new psychedelic industry.

Colorado Votes on Decriminalizing the Possession, Storing, Using, Processing, Transporting, Purchasing, Obtaining, or INGESTING NATURAL MEDICINE FOR PERSONAL USE AND EVEN GIVING AWAY NATURAL MEDICINE FOR PERSONAL USE WITHOUT REMUNERATION TO A PERSON OR PERSONS TWENTY-ONE YEARS OF AGE OR OLDER!

Red Light Holland Corp. based in the Netherlands, is partnering with Rapper Wiz Khalifa to launch MisterCap, A premium brand of magic mushrooms and truffles to the recreational market, along with mushroom-themed merchandise, decor, and tele-counseling services. This collaboration with Wiz Khalifa is to leverage the rapper’s significant social media presence and help grow the brand.

A Maryland House of Delegates Committee recently held a hearing on creating a psychedelics access fund. The Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and Traumatic Brain Injury Alternative Therapies Fund could give Maryland’s veterans access to psychedelics like psilocybin, MDMA, and ketamine to help them find relief.

For the first time we find that psilocybin works differently from conventional antidepressants – making the brain more flexible and fluid, and less entrenched in the negative thinking patterns associated with depression

Previous studies have shown that psychedelic treatment with psilocybin relieved major depressive disorder symptoms in adults for up to a month. Now, in a follow-up study of those participants, the researchers report that the substantial antidepressant effects of psilocybin-assisted therapy, given with supportive psychotherapy, may last at least a year for some patients.

Detroit has joined the growing number of cities and states that have decriminalized entheogenic plants and fungi, known as “magic mushrooms” and psychedelics. Voters, including the city’s incumbent mayor who won a re-election, passed Proposal E on Tuesday night to decriminalize entheogenic plants and fungi.

The California activism group, decriminalize nature, pushes forward with psychedelic decriminalization.

A Florida bill would legalize magic mushrooms and give patients safe access to psychedelics for psychedelic assisted psychotherapy. The bill was introduced after similar initiatives in Oregon and Washington D.C. were passed in 2020. Grieco was proposing legal access as well as consumption of psilocybin mushrooms. In Florida, access will be limited to people with a diagnosis of a mental health condition. That would mean limited legal access to mushrooms for psychedelic assisted psychotherapy for military veterans with PTSD and terminally ill patients.

Hawaii may soon be the next vacation destination for anyone looking for a psychedelic retreat as a new state measure proposes to legalize psilocybin for therapeutic use after a certified panel reviews the medicinal benefits and science behind psychedelic mushrooms.

The annual cost of mental illness and suicide in Australia is approximately 220 billion and the rate of mental illness continues to climb. MindMed States "New approaches are urgently needed to address this immense suffering and cost to society." In response to these devastating plagues, Australia will be deciding whether or not to reschedule psilocybin and MDMA for medical use as part of therapy for key mental illnesses.