Charles Grob

professor of psychiatry and pediatrics at UCLA

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Professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center

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Oakland, California has just decriminalized psilocybin and other psychoactive fungi and plants. This comes weeks after Denver, Colorado approved similar legislation.

Oakland becomes the second city to decriminalize psychedelic shrooms

Oakland, California has just decriminalized psilocybin and other psychoactive fungi and plants. This comes weeks after Denver, Colorado approved similar legislation.

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The over-use and abuse of LSD, magic mushrooms and other hallucinogens in the counter-cultural sixties led to a federal ban signed by Richard Nixon in 1970.

A Psychedelic Revival in Modern Medicine

The over-use and abuse of LSD, magic mushrooms and other hallucinogens in the counter-cultural sixties led to a federal ban signed by Richard Nixon in 1970.

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