The Alternative Times
Newsletter September 2024
We talked about the need for safe psilocybin access at the Adirondack Experience Museum’s Mushroom Mania event.
NYMHA Board member Bill Brennan PhD co founded an online resource for psychedelic research sites and treatment clinics. Check it out here:
We are planning a fun evening of entertainment and education in order to raise funds for our actions. See below for more details! Join our committee lead by Chef David Stein to help make the night one to remember!
Watch our August Meeting video here: NYMHA meeting recording
We have renamed the NYPAC instagram NYMHA_ and have deleted the NY4MHA account.
We are excited to hear that Vermont and New Mexico are also considering permit model bills. We are in discussion with advocates and lawmakers about A10375 and how it can be adapted by other states.
We have formed a Psychedelic Group Adjacent coalition called New Yorkers for Wellness Options (NYWO). Do you have a group that is interested in coming together in solidarity to create legal psilocybin access? Let us know! We are joined together with the Brooklyn Psychedelic Society, Psychedelic Sisterhood, Psychedelic Assembly, Psychedelic Society of Western New York, Darkhei Rephua, and the Hudson Valley Psychedelic Society so far!
The “Talking points to use with family & friends” have been finished and are posted on our website here: TALKING POINTS. Discussing Psilocybin use and why it is important and necessary to create legal access is one of the most important (and easiest) things you can do to help!
IN THE NEWS:
Below are a few interesting articles that came across our desks this month:
Evidence towards proving Terrance McKenna’s “Stoned Ape” Theory:
Psilocybin as a treatment for Diabetes:
Magic mushrooms: A new frontier in diabetes treatment?
Psilocybin and chronic neuropathic pain: a systematic review:
Psilocybin and chronic neuropathic pain: a systematic review
ASKS:
Want to help us plan events and actions?! Let us know! We need more boots on the ground!
We are fundraising! Please donate through our website to help us achieve our $5,000 goal.
The easiest way you can help: Contact your lawmaker. Assemblymember and Senator
A sample email to send can be found on our website’s ACT tab.
COMING UP:
Next Meeting: Tuesday, September 10th 7pm. Guest Speaker: Assemblymember Amy Paulin. Sponsor of A10375: REGULATED HEALTH ACCESS AND SUPPORT SERVICES FOR PSILOCYBIN ACT
333 2nd Ave, Troy NY 12182, or via ZOOM
October Meeting: Tuesday, October 8th 7pm, Guest Speaker: None yet.
333 2nd Ave, Troy NY 12182, or via ZOOM
Buffalo Action: Tuesday, October 22nd.
Reconsider Screening and Panel at the Irish Classic Theater Company
More details to follow.
NYMHA Fundraiser: Saturday, November 9th.
Indian Ladder Farms will host an evening of Music, Food, and Fungi Fun to raise funds to continue our work. More details to follow.
New York City Action - do you want to help us bring people together for an evening of discussion following a screening of Reconsider’s short documentary films? Date, Time, Location TBD (November?)
