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San Francisco Just Decriminalized Shrooms

Psilocybin mushrooms at the Numinus Bioscience lab in Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada, on Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2021. (James MacDonald / Bloomberg via Getty Images) San Francisco has become the latest U.S. city to decriminalize psychedelics like magic mushrooms and ayahuasca.  A resolution passed unanimously by the cityā€™s Board of Supervisors Tuesday says arresting people for […]

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ā€˜Bullshitā€™ Veto on Overdose Prevention Sites Could Make Everything Worse

California Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks during a bill signing ceremony on February 09, 2022 in San Francisco, California.  (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) / SAND555/Getty Images When California Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed a bill this week that would have authorized several cities to open ā€œoverdose prevention sitesā€ā€”also known as safe consumption or supervised injection facilitiesā€”he cited the risk […]

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Classmates of a Black 11-Year-Old Protest the Safeway That Wrongly Accused Him of Stealing

Students and teachers from Harvey Milk Civil Rights Academy in San Francisco protest outside a Safeway store in solidarity with Jaā€™Mari Oliver, courtesy of Rafael Mandelman  Jaā€™Mari Oliver was beginning his first day back to in-person learning by getting a sandwich from a nearby Safeway store, when a security guard accused the Black 11-year-old of stealing. […]

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