Colorado Legalizes Psychedelic Plants and Fungi: Ski Towns Largely to Thank The citizens of Colorado are no strangers to facing controversial propositions on their ballots: in 2014 they were the first state to legalize marijuana and in 2019 the use of psilocybin was decriminalized in the city of Denver. The 2022 midterms have come and gone, and Colorado faced yet another contentious issue for voters. Proposition 122 moved to not only […] Industry News Zoe Loftin | November 16, 2022 2 Comments
Is Psychedelic Skiing Coming To Aspen, Colorado, as the City Pushes to Decriminalize Plant Medicines? Right To Heal Potentially, the city’s “Right to Heal” initiative is now collecting signatures. It’s working diligently to meet an October 8th deadline and find its way onto the ballot for next March. According to their website, “Right to Heal seeks to decriminalize plant medicines within the City of Aspen by establishing a framework for safe, regulated therapeutic use and […] Industry News Ryan Kime | September 6, 2022 0 Comments
How Mushrooms Can Eliminate Plastic Waste, Save the Bees, and Benefit Humanity Nature is unfathomably mysterious. The Earth is a living organism, and there’s so much we still don’t even know about it. Poetically, however, it may die that way, too. That is unless we put differences aside and assume the courage to actually do something about it. I know you’ve heard something along these lines before, and that last sentence probably […] Brains Martin Kuprianowicz | April 15, 2021 1 Comment
10 Ways That Mushrooms Can Help Save The World We are just now beginning to delve into the mysteries of nature we have never even fathomed before. Yet, poetically, due to the alarming rate that global temperatures are rising, many of these mysteries and the hundreds of new species we are now discovering every day will vanish along with them. Only in the last twelve years have we discovered […] Martin Kuprianowicz | June 6, 2019 0 Comments
Denver, CO First City in the Nation to Decriminalize Magic Mushrooms Denver, CO is on the cusp of being the first city in the nation to decriminalize psychedelic mushrooms or ‘magic mushrooms’. Final unofficial results posted late yesterday showed that ‘Initiative 301’ is set to pass narrowly with 50.6 percent of the vote. Results will be certified May 16. “It’s been one hell of a 21 and a half hours,” Initiative 301 […] SnowBrains | May 9, 2019 5 Comments
Basics for Foraging Gourmet Mushrooms Since living in the mountains, I have had some fantastic friends teach me the beauty of foraging for wild gourmet mushrooms. While some of you prefer other mushrooms, or not mushrooms at all, surely we can all say that we have seen mushrooms before, whether on food, out on a hike, or even in our backyard. Mushrooms are everywhere and have been on […] Brains Greg Obernesser | September 8, 2018 3 Comments