CULTURE CLASH (Express Yourself)
HAN DLE WI TH CARE
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It’s been a minute since I have engaged in the glorious Galveston community. Regretfully I moved to Colorado following my daughter and leaving my ex-husband. Lest I digress. But the fact of it is once a Galvestonian, always one. My hopes are to return for retirement with the dream of settling in a lovely old home, raise some goats, and to offer a practice of functional medicine in the community.
What a great segue to our topic, Psychedelics! In the mile “high” state in which I currently reside, a city near Denver has an interesting quandary going on. If you keep up on national news you will know it is legal to use but there are a bunch of weird laws that roadblock buying, distribution or growing it. However, there are endless amounts of free-for-all mushrooms growing all over the mountain sides. I went on a hike in Golden Gate State Park last spring at an elevation of 10,000 feet. While stomping up the side of this front range excursion, the firefighters I was with went into arduous detail about the beauty and variety of mushrooms growing in the wild. Some weird one full of worms they were going to make soup with…pass. But there was a particularly beautiful one that was pointed out. Lovely orange and red with white spots straight out of a scene from Alice in Wonderland. Not the southern quest of digging through a pile of cow s**t to boil down the most disgusting brew known to man to do a little “trippen balls” for the afternoon.
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