{"id":12268,"date":"2022-11-24T15:34:35","date_gmt":"2022-11-24T22:34:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=12268"},"modified":"2022-12-02T15:36:01","modified_gmt":"2022-12-02T22:36:01","slug":"fungin-in-jamaica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2022\/11\/24\/fungin-in-jamaica\/","title":{"rendered":"Fungi&#8217;n In Jamaica"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/americas\/psychedelic-mushrooms-expand-jamaica-tourism-beyond-sunshine-reggae-2022-11-24\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from Reuters<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Psychedelic mushrooms expand Jamaica tourism beyond sunshine and reggae<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>By\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/authors\/kate-chappell\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Kate Chappell<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/authors\/brian-ellsworth\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Brian Ellsworth<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cloudfront-us-east-2.images.arcpublishing.com\/reuters\/H5ICTZ64DVBZ3FSOW432RCZDII.JPG\" alt=\"Psilocybin or &quot;magic mushrooms&quot; are seen in an undated photo provided by the DEA\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Psilocybin or &#8220;magic mushrooms&#8221; are seen in an undated photo provided by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) in Washington, U.S. May 7, 2019. DEA\/Handout via REUTERS<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>TREASURE BEACH, Jamaica, Nov 24 (Reuters) &#8211; A new group of Jamaican resorts is promoting tourism that offers mystical experiences and stress relief through &#8220;magic mushrooms,&#8221; as the Caribbean nation seeks to develop a niche industry in natural psychedelics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While mushrooms containing the psychoactive compound psilocybin remain illegal in most parts of Europe and the United States, Jamaica&#8217;s government has never outlawed the hallucinogenic fungus and is now cultivating investors in efforts to build up its psychedelics industry, which according to one estimate could be worth $8 billion globally by 2028.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/americas\/psychedelic-mushrooms-expand-jamaica-tourism-beyond-sunshine-reggae-2022-11-24\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at Reuters<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from Reuters Psychedelic mushrooms expand Jamaica tourism beyond sunshine and reggae By\u00a0Kate Chappell\u00a0and\u00a0Brian Ellsworth TREASURE BEACH, Jamaica, Nov 24 (Reuters) &#8211; A new group of Jamaican resorts is promoting tourism that offers mystical experiences and stress relief through &#8220;magic mushrooms,&#8221; as the Caribbean nation seeks to develop a niche industry in natural psychedelics. While mushrooms [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}