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Beyond Medicalization: Psychedelic Therapy and the Promise of Community-Based Healing

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Colorado’s approach importantly emphasizes natural medicines in their fungal and plant forms rather than synthetic compounds and allows for multiple pathways for legal use. Rather than isolating treatment to the individual patient, community-based psychedelic frameworks recognize that healing happens in relationship.

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Maryland Enacts a “Draconian” Assisted Outpatient Treatment Program

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For over fifty years in America, pro-force family advocacy organizations, closely allied with the medical and judicial establishments, have worked to roll back the clock to the days when they had more legal control over the lives of those under their care. Proponents of court-ordered treatment also frequently argue that it is voluntary.