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Former Alaska Airlines Pilot Takes Plea Deal In Case Involving Mushrooms, Dangerous Cockpit Freakout

A former pilot for Alaska Airlines who was flying on a jumpseat home to the Bay Area from a trip to Washington, who nearly brought down the plane he was flying in due to a hallucination, is taking plea deals in both state and federal court.

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SF Just Got Another 'Magic Mushroom Church’ in Russian Hill

A “mushroom church” called the Rising Phoenix Entheogenic Temple just opened its second San Francisco location, some six months after a much larger mushroom church left town claiming they were the victims of “religious discrimination.”

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‘Magic Mushroom Church’ Is Closing Down Its SoMa Location, Claiming Harassment From SF City Hall

The Church of Ambrosia’s Zide Door in SF has been providing magic mushrooms and other legally questionable delights for over a year now at Howard and Seventh streets, but says they’re shutting down the SF location because of “harassment” from the SF Planning Department.

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Cops Bust Mission District Van Packed With Cocaine, Magic Mushrooms, $600,000 in Cash

Is it a good idea to have three kilos of cocaine and 600 grand in cash sitting in your van at 17th and Shotwell streets? Probably not, and two people learned that the hard way in a recent Mission District drug bust.

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Man Who Rampaged Naked Shooting Gun In Richmond District Had Psychotic Break on Mushrooms, Attorney Says

The man who was seen by neighbors having a violent mental health crisis on New Year's Even is a Marine Corps veteran with PTSD, his attorney said, and the breakdown he had was caused by a high dose of psychedelic mushrooms.

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Off-Duty Alaska Airlines Pilot Who Had Mental Health Crisis and Tried to Bring Down Flight Gives First Media Interview

The pilot Joseph Emerson told the NYT in a jailhouse interview that his perception of reality blurred on the flight and he had thought he had to take drastic action to get out of the trance.

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Newsom Vetoes Wiener’s Magic Mushrooms Bill, Haney’s Bill That Would Have Allowed Cannabis Cafes

Two groundbreaking drug bills from SF's state legislators went to pot on Gavin Newsom’s desk, as he’s vetoed state Senator Scott Wiener’s bill to decriminalize plant-based psychedelics, and Assemblymember Matt Haney’s bill for Amsterdam-style cannabis cafes.

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Day Around the Bay: California Legislature Decriminalizes Psychedelic Shrooms

Walgreens settled with jilted patients over Theranos fraud claims, the New York Times gave the Tenderloin a glowing write-up, and a bill to decriminalize psychedelic mushrooms is heading for Gavin Newsom’s desk.

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SF Supervisors Vote to Decriminalize Shrooms, Peyote, Other Plant-Based Psychedelics

San Francisco joins a movement that’s coming on hard in several other cities and states, decriminalizing “entheogenic plants” like magic mushrooms and ayahuasca, and encouraging research of these for therapeutic purposes.

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Proposed Ballot Measure Would Legalize 'Magic Mushrooms' In California

Touting their supposed efficacy in treating certain illnesses, a Monterey County man has proposed a measure for California's ballot that would legalize consumption of psilocybins, aka "magic mushrooms." CBS