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‘This is medicine’: inside the psilocybin retreat for US first responders

In mid-September, after the fire season in the American west largely went quiet but before hurricanes ravaged the south-east, seven first responders from across the US traveled to Mexico seeking a therapy they hoped would transform their lives.

They had embarked on a sort of pilgrimage, journeying thousands of miles to an airy villa outside the humid beachside city of Puerto Vallarta, where over the course of three days a team would guide them through ceremonies with psilocybin, the psychedelic 5-MeO-DMT and tobacco.

The retreat, paid for by a California-based non-profit, offered a chance at healing that had eluded the first responders through years of counseling, medication and meditation. On a sweltering Thursday afternoon, they sat in a circle under a wood pergola and shared what ailed them: pain and rage without an identifiable source, on-the-job injuries that had upended their lives, childhood abuse, beloved friends lost to suicide or violence.

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2 Oregon men found dead from exposure in forest while looking for Sasquatch

Two Sasquatch hunters died after they went missing while searching for the elusive mythical creature in the Oregon wilderness on Christmas Eve.

The bodies of the two men, ages 37 and 59 years old, were found in a heavily wooded area of the Gifford Pinchot National Forest in Washington State, the Skamania County Sheriff’s Office said Saturday.

Police said the pair appeared to have died of exposure amid the harsh weather conditions and their ill-preparedness for the forest.

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Biden reportedly regrets ending re-election campaign and says he’d have defeated Trump

Joe Biden regrets having pulled out of this year’s presidential race and believes he would have defeated Donald Trump in last month’s election – despite negative poll indications, White House sources have said.

The US president has reportedly also said he made a mistake in choosing Merrick Garland as attorney general – reflecting that Garland, a former US appeals court judge, was slow to prosecute Donald Trump for his role in the 6 January 2021 insurrection while presiding over a justice department that aggressively prosecuted Biden’s son Hunter.

With just more than three weeks of his single-term presidency remaining, Biden’s reported rueful reflections are revealed in a Washington Post profile that contains the clearest signs yet that he thinks he erred in withdrawing his candidacy in July after a woeful debate performance against his rival for the White House, Trump, the previous month.

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Germany: Supermarket customers ill due to ‘irritant gas’

Dozens of supermarket customers fell ill in Germany’s eastern state of Saxony on Saturday after inhaling what media outlets described as “irritant gas.”

Customers were doing their grocery shopping in a supermarket in Saxony’s town of Waldheim when unknown people sprayed the gas, German media reported. A police statement said an “unknown substance” was released into the supermarket.

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