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Ana B. Ibarra CalMatters Los psicodélicos están teniendo un momento. Un impulso a nivel nacional para incorporar los hongos mágicos y otros psicodélicos al uso regular está ganando terreno, y algunos californianos quieren participar. Si bien los alucinógenos a menudo se asocian con la cultura de las drogas de...

Ana B. Ibarra   CalMatters Psychedelics are having a moment. A nationwide push to bring magic mushrooms and other psychedelics into the mainstream is gaining traction, and some Californians want in. While hallucinogens are often associated with the drug culture of the 1960s, today’s movement on psychedelics is largely...

Alejandro Lazo CalMatters Malcolm Harris grew up in the intellectual heart of Silicon Valley, where people are “educated, rich, healthy, innovative” and yet so haunted by the sins of history that the city of Palo Alto had the nation’s highest youth suicide rate for more than a decade. This is the...

Kristen Hwang CalMatters Brian Iv works in a factory in Orange County, earning around $26 per hour. He suffers chronic pain from a lifetime of manual labor jobs and previous workplace injuries, but often treats the pain with home remedies or traditional Cambodian practices. Going to the doctor is...