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(Bloomberg) -- Seattle’s city council voted unanimously to relax its rules against naturally occurring drugs, joining a handful of other cities that have decriminalized psilocybin and similar substances since Denver kicked off a wave of such changes three years ago.
This event has passed. April 7 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm Event Description Until recently, telehealth services were expensive, rarely available, and often of limited scope and quality. But the COVID-19 pandemic forced a rapid, radical expansion. To promote the adoption of telehealth services, the Office for Civil Rights within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) relaxed the requirement that providers communicate with patients through HIPAA-compliant platforms. Health care providers took their services online, and novel platforms connecting patients with providers proliferated. In sho...
Governor appoints board to oversee Oregon’s new psychedelic mushroom program OregonLive.com 3/16/2021 Lizzy Acker, oregonlive.com Oregon’s first-in-the-nation program to allow regulated, therapeutic use of psilocybin got underway Tuesday when Gov. Kate Brown announced the members of the Oregon Psilocybin Advisory Board. The board will create the framework for the program outlined in Measure 109, which Oregon voters approved in November. The board includes doctors, researchers, therapists and fungi experts, among others, according to a press release. “Like many, I was i...
Famous archaeologist Sinclair Hood passes away aged 103 Search for: He was one of the great archaeologists of the 20th century, and was particularly associated with the Minoan Palace of Knossos where he worked and excavated for many years. He passed away on Monday, two weeks short of his 104th birthday. Hood was born in Cobh, (then Queenstown), Ireland, in 1917. He received a Master of Arts degree from Magdalen College, Oxford in 1939 and later received a diploma in Prehistoric Archaeology from the University of London in 1947. Hood then attended the British School of Archaeology in Athens. H...