Editor’s Note

Thanks for picking up The Psychedelia Issue of the Leaf!

Like Alice in Wonderland falling down the rabbit hole, it feels like society has tripped and awakened into a new age of enlightenment and acceptance for the developing world of psychedelic experiences. This new class of drugs are following the policy road paved by Cannabis – using a combination of science and personal testimonies to advocate for the medicinal and recreational use of natural, plant-based psychedelics and laboratory-derived drugs.

From mushrooms containing psilocybin to ayahuasca in the jungle, the research done via personal experience for decades with shamans and at festivals is shifting to clinical analysis – providing the legal basis for freeing these chemicals and entheogens. It’s all about changing perception, which is ironic given the ego-killing 20,000 foot view of life a good trip provides, and convincing mainstream America that shrooms are more than a hippy escape or the flashback to a bad trip. In a society where we’ve been taught that there’s a pill or doctor for everything, could repackaging mushroom trips into therapy sessions be the missing link?

Oregon is embarking on this journey with the first state-licensed psilocybin producers, therapy centers and facilitators of psychedelic experiences. I had the pleasure of touring Satya in Medford where the first patients have passed through the veil into a legal trip, complete with pre-trip intake analysis, and a reintegration process to take the experience and apply it into lessons for therapeutic healing back in the “real world.”

DAN VINKOVETSKY, FEATURES

NATE WILLIAMS, FEATURES

KAT WOLF, FEATURES

BRUCE & LAURIE WOLF, RECIPES

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