First Oregon Facilitators Licensed!
We’re excited to share with you yet another historic first in Oregon: The first facilitator licenses have officially been granted! With many additional applications in the queue, we anticipate that both product testing facilities and service centers will start to receive their licenses in the months to come as Oregon approaches the day when the first psilocybin clients will begin receiving services.
Speaking of momentum… With interest in psilocybin therapy growing and Oregon’s program almost ready to launch, the events and resources available to our community continue to grow at a rapid pace. In this email, we are highlighting a number of upcoming events and resources to support safe, equitable and accessible psilocybin therapy.
If you would like to share your event, announcement or resource with our community, please email the details to info@healingadvocacyfund.org.
UPCOMING EVENTS & RESOURCES
Reducing the Impact of 280E:
Tax Strategies for Success in the Emerging Psychedelics Industry
Please join us on April 24 at noon for “Psilocybin and 280E: Tax Strategies for Success in the Emerging Psychedelics Industry.” Accounting professional Justin Botillier will share learnings from the cannabis industry that can help psilocybin professionals conduct business successfully in this regulated market. Because psychedelics are considered a schedule I drug, businesses that include the sale of these "controlled" substances are subject to 280E. The penalties imposed on these businesses are often their most significant expense, and must be taken seriously. At this webinar, Justin will share strategies that can be used to take aggressive but defensible tax positions to reduce the impact of 280E.
Chacruna Institute:
Queering Psychedelics II Conference April 22 & 23
The Chacruna Institute is holding a two-day conference in San Francisco on queering psychedelics as part of their Women, Gender Diversity, and Sexual Minorities speaker series. Featuring over 40 speakers, the conference will highlight the voices of queer visionaries within the psychedelic community and examine the history and future of psychedelics from queer and non-binary perspectives.
Find out more about the conference HERE and use the code HAFC20 for a 20% discount!
Alma Institute:
Facilitator Training Program Now Accepting Applications
The Alma Institute is accepting applications for its inaugural, social justice grounded psilocybin training program. The training – which includes core skills applicable to psychedelic facilitation at large – will launch May 19th-22nd, starting with a powerful in-person retreat near Portland, Oregon.
Details on Alma's curriculum, which is structured around the life cycle of the mushroom, and the link to apply are available here. You can also get a sense for the program from a recorded info session. Applications are being accepted on a first-come, first-served basis.
PSYCHEDELICS & SPORTS
E60: Exploring Psilocybin for Mental Health in Sports
Are psychedelics the future of mental health treatment in sports? E60 follows a group of former athletes with a range of mental and physical health conditions at a medical retreat involving psilocybin.
E60 Presents "Peace of Mind" on ESPN April 22 at 11:30 a.m. ET
IN THE NEWS
Planning a Trip? Oregon’s Magic Mushroom Experiment Advances
Associated Press
Oregon Psilocybin Services expects centers to open their doors and licensed facilitators to offer services sometime this fall, said health authority spokesperson Afiq Hisham.
“Many applicants are working through complex issues, such as working with their cities and counties on zoning or ensuring the proposed premises meets requirements,” Hisham said. “We are prioritizing applications in the order received and working to provide site inspections for those that are ready.”
Oregon Inches Closer to Supervised Psilocybin Use as OHA Rolls Out First Approved Licenses
Jefferson Public Radio
After more than two years of developing rules and regulations, Oregon Psilocybin Services is now reviewing applications and issuing licenses for facilitators, service centers, manufacturers and laboratories.
Psychedelics Are Therapeutic, Not Criminal
Breakthrough Bulletin
For over three decades, I served San Francisco, the city where I was born and raised, as a police officer. From solving robberies to enforcing traffic laws, hostage negotiation to undercover narcotics operations, I saw it all. But I never saw—even in the dense, urban Tenderloin neighborhood where I worked for years—psychedelic substances such as psilocybin nor ibogaine posing a serious risk to public safety. No overdoses. No epidemic of addiction. And no large scale trafficking.
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