<story><title>Magic Mushrooms Are Decriminalized in DC as of Today</title><url>https://www.washingtonian.com/2021/03/15/magic-mushrooms-are-decriminalized-in-dc-as-of-today/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>batmaniam</author><text>I think this is great news, and I hope other states will follow. But it&amp;#x27;s a bit troublesome that it took a wealthy executive to get this anywhere politically, even after years of safe-use research and its prevalence as medical treatments:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; David Bronner, the top executive at Dr. Bronner’s soap company, helped bankroll the campaign, which had to overcome pandemic restrictions to gather signatures and get on the ballot last fall.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>AdamJacobMuller</author><text>&amp;gt; David Bronner, the top executive at Dr. Bronner’s soap company&lt;p&gt;He might be a wealthy executive, but, you&amp;#x27;re going to have an extraordinarily hard time convincing me that he&amp;#x27;s anything but the exact opposite of the caricature of a &amp;quot;wealthy executive&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Dr. Bronner’s is an amazing company with an amazing product.&lt;p&gt;They also source some of their oil from a small fair trade olive producing cooperative in palestine[1] which I was fortunate enough to visit in 2019. The people there couldn&amp;#x27;t say enough about how Dr Bronners had saved their coop and the Palestinian olive industry. Amazing people all around and the smells of a olive oil factory producing fresh olive oil are burned into my brain now!&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.drbronner.com&amp;#x2F;all-one-blog&amp;#x2F;2017&amp;#x2F;05&amp;#x2F;growing-hope-holy-land&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.drbronner.com&amp;#x2F;all-one-blog&amp;#x2F;2017&amp;#x2F;05&amp;#x2F;growing-hope-...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Magic Mushrooms Are Decriminalized in DC as of Today</title><url>https://www.washingtonian.com/2021/03/15/magic-mushrooms-are-decriminalized-in-dc-as-of-today/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>batmaniam</author><text>I think this is great news, and I hope other states will follow. But it&amp;#x27;s a bit troublesome that it took a wealthy executive to get this anywhere politically, even after years of safe-use research and its prevalence as medical treatments:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; David Bronner, the top executive at Dr. Bronner’s soap company, helped bankroll the campaign, which had to overcome pandemic restrictions to gather signatures and get on the ballot last fall.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hahajk</author><text>David Bronner has a history of pro-drug activism, including planting hemp in the DEA headquarters.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.newyorker.com&amp;#x2F;magazine&amp;#x2F;2016&amp;#x2F;02&amp;#x2F;29&amp;#x2F;david-bronner-cannabis-activist-of-the-year&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.newyorker.com&amp;#x2F;magazine&amp;#x2F;2016&amp;#x2F;02&amp;#x2F;29&amp;#x2F;david-bronner-...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>