People struggling with mental health issues could soon see another treatment option in Illinois.

A new bill would legalize “magic mushrooms,” for adult supervised use. Under the proposal, people would only be able to use the psychedelic drugs at a licensed service center. The FDA has considered the mushrooms a “breakthrough therapy” to help people with PTSD and depression who are resistant to other treatments.

Advocates, like Jean Lacy say if this becomes law it could be a big help. Lacy is the founder and Executive Director of the Illinois Psychedelic Society.

“People are really, at large they’re pretty desperate for new tools to help us with our mental health,” Lacy said. “I think collectively we’re all under a lot of stress, and that you know, I think there are serious consequences to continue to withhold these medicines form the people who need them.”

The bill’s sponsor says they’ve been working with law enforcement organizations on this proposal. She says the Illinois Sheriff’s Association is hesitant about the bill. If it becomes law, Illinois would be the third state to legalize magic mushrooms.

The proposal would not let people sell or have the drug the recreational use.

Chapters: 10/? Fandom: Our Flag Means Death (TV) Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Blackbeard | Edward Teach/Stede Bonnet Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Modern Setting, Social Workers, social worker stede bonnet, Harm Reduction, References to Drugs, but not like you usually see in fanfic like boo hoo let me fix you, Emails, Falling In Love, Flirting, Fluff, Banter, eventual smut

Stede Bonnet, MSW, has been a social worker for a long time. Filling the forms, signing the papers... it's ineffective and out of touch, sure, but that's just the way things are done.

Then he tries something new.

"Just look at them, wandering into the catering tent without protection!” Stede knows he's getting a bit huffy, but really now. They've got condoms right here, free of charge, and no one seems to care much. It's just negligent!

“Oh, you mean the fuckin' and suckin' tent?” Ed contributes as if that isn't one of the most embarrassing phrases Stede's ever heard. “Yeah.”

“Yes! We've all these supplies right here and they're just— I mean look at them!” Stede gestures to the scene before them. Two strangers walk past their booth to join the bodies in the tent, cocks in hands. “They could at least stop by?” Stede calls, tilting his head to aim the complaint in their direction.

Ed laughs again, pushing himself off the wall with a nonchalance that, really, is quite hot given the circumstances. “Just not how it works, man. They'll come if they want them. Can't force it.”

“Can't force it,” Stede repeats under his breath. “Well, has anyone tried?”

✨New Modern AU✨

Updating multiple times per week. Totals 40k.

So this conversation lives rent-free in my head. So I was arguing with this chick about how I'm anti-prison and one of those reasons being that I don't think that someone who sells drugs to support their family should be in the same room as a rapist, and she was like. "Well if someone is benefiting from the drug trade they deserve to go to prison because they are supporting an industry that exploits women in Columbia" okay then in that case if you eat chocolate, eat meat, use electricity, wear cheap clothes, take medicine, drink dairy, use paper, or shop from amazon you are a criminal and deserve to be punished. So which is it? Let people who broke the law in order to provide for their families go, and instead, work towards making it so that people don't have to rely on crime in order to support themselves or their families, or go to jail for supporting industries that exploit people and animals every day.

I feel like we are more focused on the personal “morality” of those with wealth and power than addressing the systemic problems that make their lack of “morality” more influential.

What I’m trying to say is that people seem to be more interested in salacious stories of rich people throwing big parties or rich people being promiscuous or being on drugs when the truth is that poor people do all of these things too! Poor communities are the ones disproportionately affected by drug trafficking, sex trafficking, etc.

We need to more clearly address that the problem is that the wealthy and powerful have greater influence to do bad things, and that marginalized people are disproportionately impacted. I don’t care to hear about rich people having consenting adult sex parties or adults consensually using illicit substances.

I DO care about trafficking victims and abuse victims and people struggling with addiction. I just think it’s potentially dangerous to act like these are super secret things that only rich people do and act like your community can’t be impacted in a similar way.

No class of people are inherently more or less likely to do terrible things. The difference is the scope of impact and the power and influence. That is the difference between Jefferey Epstein and a lower class street pimp.

7:59 AM EDT May 18, 2023:

Fear - "Legalize Drugs" From the album Have Another Beer with Fear (October 17, 1995)

Last song scrobbled from iTunes at Last.fm

No discordant covers of The Animals, and no naive free jazz sax workouts, but this is a very good record, just as obnoxious as they had been

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just Creed things

while I'm soapboxing, you need to quit thinking of addicts as a "them" situation. do you get irritable, groggy, and headachey without your daily coffee? congratulations! you're an addict. addiction can happen to anybody. it can happen to you. there's a decent chance it already has happened to you, just in a more socially accepted way that leads you to not think of it as an addiction.

currently trying to patiently explain to my GP surgery that whilst they "may not ordinarily" issue a certificate signed by a doctor for prescribed medications there is no law against it but there is a law against me trying to take lisdexamfetamine -a very controlled substance- into Japan without one so that should probably take precedence

I will say, while there are many parts of my job that I would happily toss into the sea, it's very neat to stumble onto people who have been doing their job with truly off-the-charts levels of competence, but---and this is key---without the Higher Ups knowing even a little bit about it. I've met at least three of them in the last week, who definitely have been keeping one of our branches afloat, just by dint of their extraordinary levels of knowing.

Or, alternatively---i have been working at my company for 7 months. I discovered today that the entire company has been keeping a repository of policies and documents, with version control and everything. I thought we had 3-5 policies stuck together with bubblegum and hope, but no, there is a whole database!!!

"I'm surprised your manager didn't...uh. Tell you?" said the very nice man who showed me how to find the database.

"Mhm," I murmured noncommittally, because the alternative was frankly, I'd be shocked if she knew it existed.

yeah idk

Marijuana was the big topic at the Capitol on Thursday, with a hearing on two bills that would legalize recreational use and sales in Nebraska.

LB 22, by Sen. Justin Wayne of Omaha, would decriminalize use and possession of the drug.

LB 634, by Sen. Terrell McKinney of Omaha would allow for the sale of cannabis to anyone over 21.

“The federal government continues to cling on, as it does today, to a policy that has origins in racism, xenophobia, and whose principal effect has been to ruin the lives of many generations of people,” McKinney said.

LB 634 would also focus on helping people of color and low-income individuals, who McKinney said are disproportionately targeted for possession of marijuana by law enforcement.

Some testifiers said Nebraskans have wanted these bills for years.

“The polls show consistently, the people of the state want cannabis legal in some form,” said Spike Eickholt with the American Civil Liberties Union of Nebraska. “You may not like the forms of these bills, but ultimately, what might happen is that the voters are just going to approve something you really don’t like, and then you’re going to be stuck with it.”

One concern brought up by the opposition was how the black market contributes to marijuana sales.

“The black market is alive and well in states that have legal marijuana and in states that have illegal marijuana,” said Col. John Bolduc, the superintendent of the Nebraska State Patrol. “I believe one of the testifiers suggested that it’s easy to access and it’s affordable. That’s true.”

Bolduc said if the bills are passed, the black market would undercut legitimate businesses.

Lorelle Mueting of Heartland Family Service said legalization would put the safety of everyone in the state at risk.

“When people use it more, we will inevitably see more impairment problems that affect more than just the person using,” Mueting said. “Marijuana is a psychoactive substance, which means it causes a high, and when under the influence of THC, a person does not have the ability to make good decisions.”

Under the legislation, the drug would be taxed, which supporters said could bring millions in revenue to the state.

“Prohibitionists must understand that prohibition isn’t working, hasn’t worked and never will work,” Jerry Moler said.

The Judiciary Committee only heard testimony on the bills, but it could vote on them as early as next week.

Love that the literal next activity they are engaging in after learning that they are going to jail is making drugs in a campervan

Good news

Wonkas chocolates = drugs