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Bristolā€™s First Regular Drug-Checking Service for Safety

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Bristol will be the first city in the UK to provide a regular drug-checking service licensed by the Home Office.

Approved yesterday, March 10th, by Bristol City Council, the free and confidential service will be run by The Loop, a harm-reduction organization ā€” starting on May 28th. Held on the last weekend of every month, the service will be available to drug users ahead of events like Bristol Pride and Love Saves The Day. A total of 15 sessions will take place over 12 months.

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Mushroom Music: Tarun Nayar Creates Music with Fungi

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Mushrooms aren’t alwaysĀ used for their hallucinogenic effects. They are used to create music and art, too. Artist and composer Tarun Nayar, who creates and performs music under the moniker Modern Biology, plugged mushrooms into a synthesizer and wrote music with the electrical waves the fungi produce.

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Jon Hopkins Unveils Psychedelic Art Installation Called “Dreamachine”

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Grammy and Mercury-nominated composer Jon Hopkins has soundtracked a touring art installation called “Dreamachine” that induces hallucinations and tripping in the minds of its viewers.

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An extraordinary but little-known 1959 invention by artist and inventor Brion Gysin inspired Dreamachine. His experimental homemade device used flickering light to create vivid illusions, kaleidoscopic patterns and explosions of color within the mind.

Gysin envisioned that his invention would replace televisions. Instead of passive consumers of mass-produced media, viewers of his Dreamachine would create their own cinematic experiences.

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Jon Hopkins and his team of neuroscientists, architects and philosophers have breathed new life into Gysin’s invention. Similar to Hopkins’s latest work, Music For Psychedelic Therapy, this new project uses ambient music from the artist as a soundtrack to the experience, which researchers called “stroboscopically induced visual hallucinations.”

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Dreamachine will be touring the UK beginning this spring with more info here.

Originally reported by Mixmag.

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Colorado Might Be the Next State to Decriminalize ā€œMagicā€ Mushrooms

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It wasnā€™t just the painful tumors or medication that made Alan Floyd sick.Ā It was the idea that death could come at any time, a brutal fact of his condition that came to dominate his days and grew into night terrors during his sleep.

ā€œIt was this monstrous, impending doom of death hanging over me,ā€ Floyd said.

But Floyd found a way to interrupt the cycle of rumination and fear by experimenting with ā€œmagicā€ mushrooms. Heā€™s one of many patients and spiritual seekers in Colorado who have sought healing and relief from mushrooms and other psychedelic substances, despite a federal prohibition.

Although recent research showing the healing potential of these drugs hasĀ spurred renewed interest, mushrooms and naturally derived psychedelics like mescaline, ibogaine, and dimethyltryptamine, or DMT, have been used by people for centuries. Itā€™s only in the past 50 years that they were considered illegal.

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Jim Carrey Immerses Himself in Nature While Taking Mushrooms To Prepare for Psychedelic Film Role

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Jim Carrey, one of Hollywood’s most famousĀ actors, will be starring in the controversial film adaptation of True Hallucinations, a psychedelic film which he has been preparing for by taking mushrooms in nature. True Hallucinations shows the life and work of ethnobotanist and psychonaut Terence McKenna. Carrey, known for his rubbery body movements and distinctive facial expressions, will take on the role of McKenna who advocated the use of hallucinogenic substances. McKenna believed plant-based psychedelics can increase many forms of human awareness and is very vocal about legalizing its use.

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