PSYLOCIBIN ARTICLE LUCRETIA MENTIONED TODAY:
Originally published on www.sayerji.substack.com
After ten years of Alzheimer’s and five years of near-silence, an 80-year-old woman took a single high dose of psilocybin mushrooms–and, roughly nineteen hours later, began to speak about her life for hours. She was not cured. But she was, unmistakably, still there. The question that leaves us with may be the most important one in all of neuroscience.
In 1971, psilocybin was declared to have “no accepted medical use.” In 2026, it appeared to reach into the ruins of an advanced Alzheimer’s brain and switch a human being back on.
Worth the full read but one more paragraph of a few amazing changes to her abilities returned to her:
“Over the following days, the returns kept coming:
- Day 1 — Alertness returned. She recognized her family.
- Day 2 — She walked on her own.
- Days 2–3 — She dressed herself. She acted on her own initiative again.
- Days 2–3 — After five years of incontinence, she was dry, including through the night.
- Days 6–7 — Working memory flickered back. She asked where a specific person had gone; she correctly identified a vehicle.
- Days 6–7 — She held eye contact. She smiled back at people.
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6:35 Kevin Starrett at Oregon Firearms Federation – www.OregonFirarms.org Kevin and I discuss a push to get a police on police shooting heard by the Supreme Court, and we also discuss better ways to avoid trouble when dealing with a traffic stop and “carrying”.
7:10 Greg Roberts at www.RogueWeather.com with today’s Outdoor Report.
7:35 State Rep. Dwayne Yunker joins the show to discuss the real issue behind the Asante Physical Therapy centers closing in GP and Medford. (from his news release below)
Rep. Yunker Concerned Over Asante Clinic Closures
GRANTS PASS, ORE. – Today Representative Dwayne Yunker (R-Grants Pass) issued the following statement in response to Asante Health System’s announced discontinuation of its outpatient physical therapy services at two locations, one in Grants Pass and one in Medford, effective August 28, 2026:
“Oregon Democrats have created a toxic, anti-business, and anti-health care provider environment in our state,” said Representative Yunker. “Through an endless barrage of heavy-handed mandates, suffocating regulations, and exorbitant fees and taxes, the majority party is systematically breaking our health care system and destroying patient access to critical care.”
“The Oregon Nurses Association (ONA) has morphed from a labor advocate into a radical political activist organization that is holding our health care providers hostage,” said Representative Yunker. “The unions have funneled hundreds of thousands of dollars in campaign donations to Governor Tina Kotek, and they were rewarded with strict, government-mandated staffing ratios driving Oregon’s median nursing salary to the highest in the nation when adjusted for cost of living.”
“The result of this left-wing political scheming is playing out right here in Grants Pass and Medford: our access to care is crumbling,” said Representative Yunker. “When a vital community safety net like Asante is forced to slash core outpatient services just to survive these state-generated financial headwinds, it is the patients in Southern Oregon who ultimately pay the price.”
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6:35 Asaf Romirowsky PhD is the Executive Director of Scholars for Peace in the Middle East (SPME). Trained as a Middle East historian he holds a PhD in Middle East and Mediterranean Studies from King’s College London, UK and has published widely on various aspects of the Arab-Israeli conflict and American foreign policy in the Middle East, as well as on Israeli and Zionist history. Romirowsky is co-author of October 7:The Wars Over Words and Deeds
Congress Votes To Deeply Integrate US Military With Israel Through NDAA Provisions –
The House is preparing to vote on the Fiscal Year 2027 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) with Section 219 (formerly section 224) still embedded in the roughly $1.1 trillion bill. The plan has drawn intense online opposition from some who call it “treason,” arguing that it would compromise U.S. sovereignty and warn that it could expose sensitive technology and intelligence to a foreign government.
7:10 Dr. John Lott Jr. More on John: https://crimeresearch.org/about/
Crime Prevention Research Center was founded by Dr. John R. Lott, Jr., an economist and a world-recognized expert on guns and crime. The SAVE America act is our discussion.
Why We Need the SAVE America Act
By John Lott, Worldwide Expert on Guns & Crime
Democrats argue that requiring voter photo IDs – even when the ID itself is given away free – creates practical barriers that prevent eligible voters from casting ballots. “We’re all set for the SAVE America Act,” Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) reportedly told President Trump immediately before his sudden death. With the House passing the SAVE Act as part of the reconciliation bill and President Trump urging its passage in his last Thursday night address to the nation, Republicans have launched a full-court press to get the legislation enacted. Democrats claim black voters would face the greatest harm. Yet every country in Africa requires government-issued identification to vote. Fifty-one of the 54 countries in Africa demand people actively submit proof of citizenship to register to vote. They also say IDs would disenfranchise Hispanic voters; yet Mexico, all 12 South American countries, and Spain mandate government-issued photo IDs to vote. All these countries verify the citizenship of those registered to vote. [more…]
7:35 Brian Mayo, Executive Director of the Pharmacy Foundation of Oregon – Big Grant from OHA to help the pharmacy problem. (Release below)
$5 Million State Award Targets Oregon’s Pharmacy Deserts, Where Patients Drive Hours for a Refill
Oregon has the second-fewest pharmacies per capita in the nation. The Pharmacy Foundation of Oregon will deploy prescription lockers, staffed delivery and telepharmacy while landmark federal PBM reforms remain years from taking effect.
WEST LINN, Ore. — The Pharmacy Foundation of Oregon (PFO) has been awarded $5,035,218 by the Oregon Health Authority (OHA) to bring secure prescription lockers, staffed prescription delivery and telepharmacy services to rural and frontier communities where currently the nearest pharmacy counter can be an hour or more away.
The funding comes through three Rural Health Transformation Program (RHTP) Catalyst Awards. OHA announced this week that it is distributing roughly $80.1 million in Catalyst funding to 85 organizations leading 103 projects statewide, targeting maternal and child health, co-occurring behavioral health conditions, chronic disease, and aging in place. PFO’s three projects address the final two: keeping older adults in their homes and keeping patients with chronic conditions on their medications. All three will be carried out in partnership with OHA-designated Critical Access Pharmacies and rural community partners.
The need is not abstract. Oregon has the second-fewest retail pharmacies per capita of any state, trailing only Alaska, according to an Associated Press analysis of National Council for Prescription Drug Programs data. Oregon has roughly 610 retail pharmacies for 4.2 million people — about 14.4 per 100,000 residents. Wheeler County has none at all. In Gilliam County, one independent pharmacy serves patients across some 3,000 square miles. The towns of Arlington, Irrigon and Umatilla have each lost their pharmacy. For a patient in Fossil managing diabetes or hypertension, the nearest pharmacy counter is an hour away, each direction. That is not an inconvenience. It is a reason people ration medication.
“When a pharmacy in a town of 800 closes, it does not reopen,” said Dan Kennedy, President of the Pharmacy Foundation of Oregon. “The patients do not move. The prescriptions do not stop. What disappears is the last health care provider in that community you could see without an appointment. We cannot wait for the market to fix that, because the market is what caused it.”
Project 1: Secure prescription pickup lockers
The first project expands PFO’s rural prescription locker model, which was piloted in Fossil. Secure, temperature-controlled lockers let patients retrieve prescriptions close to home, with integrated communication features that connect them to a pharmacist on screen.
PFO will work with partner pharmacies, host sites and technology vendors to complete site-readiness assessments, support Board of Pharmacy registration and compliance, install units, and run local patient education through clinics, senior centers and community health partners. The model preserves pharmacist oversight and secure chain of custody while eliminating the long drive to the nearest pharmacy.
Project 2: Rural prescription delivery, with a navigator on board
The Rural Pharmacy Prescription Delivery Vehicle Program helps participating Critical Access Pharmacies launch dedicated medication delivery services, funding vehicles, to serve Heppner, Oakridge, John Day, La Grande, Vale, and Cave Junction.
What distinguishes the program is who is driving. Each site will recruit a bilingual Community Health Worker who is also a pharmacy technician — a staff member trained both to deliver medication and to recognize when a patient needs more than medication. Deliveries to homebound, mobility-impaired, and Spanish-speaking patients become an opportunity for a warm handoff to housing, food, transportation or in-home support services, using county-specific resource directories developed with 211info and regional health partners.
For older adults, that combination is the difference between a package on a porch and a reason to stay in the home they have.
Project 3: Telepharmacy in a pharmacy desert
The Telepharmacy Expansion Project will establish a licensed hub-and-spoke remote dispensing site in an Oregon community that currently has no pharmacy at all. The project covers site selection with local health partners, Oregon Board of Pharmacy remote dispensing site application, secure dispensing space, video consultation technology, automated dispensing equipment and pharmacist oversight from a supervising hub pharmacy.
Once operational, the site will offer routine dispensing, pharmacist counseling, medication therapy management, immunizations and adherence support. A Certified Pharmacy Technician staffs the location on site, under live video supervision by a pharmacist during all operating hours.
“We did not propose ideas. We proposed things we have already watched work,” said Brian Mayo, Executive Director of the Pharmacy Foundation of Oregon. “A locker in Fossil. A delivery route out of Heppner. A pharmacist on a screen. Each one started with a problem a rural pharmacist described to us first, and each one exists because a community refused to accept that losing its pharmacy meant losing its medication. What this award changes is the scale.”
Built on Critical Access Pharmacies
PFO will implement all three projects with OHA-designated Critical Access Pharmacies and rural community partners. Those pharmacies will operate the lockers, run the delivery routes, support telepharmacy workflows and remain the local point of contact for patients. Every dollar is spent reinforcing existing local pharmacy infrastructure rather than replacing it.
The Oregon State Pharmacy Association (OSPA) will support this PFO initiative by engaging Oregon’s pharmacy community, providing workflow and regulatory guidance, assisting with communications and education, and helping to develop a sustainability plan for after the grant period.
“PBM reform is necessary, and Oregon pharmacists will continue to advocate for it in the 2027 session and in Congress,” said Korin Richardson, President of the Oregon State Pharmacy Association Board of Directors. “However, a patient in Wheeler County cannot wait for a reimbursement rule that takes effect in 2029. These PFO projects make medication accessible now by supporting local pharmacies, rather than sending more prescriptions to mail-order warehouses owned by the same companies that set the payment rates.”
What happens next
PFO and its partners begin implementation immediately upon receipt of funds from OHA. Year 1 funding supports eligible project costs starting now, and Year 2 activities begin in November and may extend through September 30, 2028. Sustainability planning — identifying the reimbursement, partnership and operating models that keep each site running after the grant ends — begins in Year 1, not at the end.
“Our family has served the Grande Ronde Valley for decades, and we know our patients by name,” said Bob Coulter, owner at Red Cross Drug. “This locker lets us extend that personal care into a community we couldn’t otherwise reach every day. It keeps people on their medications, and that’s what changes outcomes.”
8:10 John O’Connor, Bay Area attorney and former Fed Prosecutor, author of POSTGATE – Read up on John at www.PostgateBook.com John and I talk about the resurrection politically of the late President Richard M. Nixon, and the weirdness of Chat GPT being sued over bad medical advice.
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6:35 Eric Peters, automotive journalist from www.EpAutos.com and a great Wheels Up Wednesday discussion. https://www.ericpetersautos.com/2026/07/22/it-turns-out-engines-sell-better-than-batteries/
https://www.ericpetersautos.com/2026/07/17/2026-chevy-trax/
7:15a – Greg Roberts from www.RogueWeather.com – Mr. Fire Report and Outdoor news
7:35 Richard Emmons, publisher of the Oregon Eagle, www.OregonEagle.com is in studio
(What Richard and I discussed today)
In between editions of the Oregon Eagle, I have been building GreatStart Academy. I’ve taught business online at the Ron Paul Curriculum for ten years. Now I want to offer more courses, update them for the AI world and include live coaching calls to answer questions offer virtual mentoring.
You are a prime example of someone who found success in a field you love without going to college. This is today’s reality for 90% of jobs today. High school is the time to learn about business and become financially literate.
https://www.greatstartacademy.com/
Having covered Oregon public education over the past six years, parents need better options for their students.
Richard Emmons Marketing Strategist | richardemmons.com
Publisher | OregonEagle.com
Educator | GreatStartAcademy.com
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6:35 Marine combat veteran, historian & former Asst Secretary of Defense BING WEST, author of CAT 5: The 2033 War Learn from losing three wars-or lose the next one in 2033.
Bing West is the only historian to serve on the front lines in Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan-and at the highest levels of government. He fought in the battles he writes about, and he explains with firsthand insight why our grunts won the fights, but our presidents lost the wars. The cause, he argues, was hubris. Presidents and policymakers believed the nation was too powerful to fail. That same conceit now threatens America itself. Our elected leaders have hollowed out the military while expanding entitlements to buy votes. The result is a weakened defense and a debt approaching collapse.
By 2033, two forces-our unsustainable debt and China’s ambition-will collide in a Category 5 storm. Drawing on six decades of combat and policy experience, West shows how America arrived at this perilous moment and how to deal with a disaster of our own making. Cat 5: The 2033 War is a soldier’s warning and a historian’s verdict-an unflinching account of national pride, political failure, and the storm closing in. For the first time in our history, we face economic convulsion and confrontation with a mortal adversary-before a single shot is fired.
7:15a – Greg Roberts from www.RogueWeather.com – Mr. Fire Report and Outdoor news
7:35 Dr. Carole Lieberman discusses the psychological and geopolitical implications of the controversy, including how anti-Israel rhetoric has become increasingly normalized in American politics and what it means for Jewish Americans and U.S. national security.
Trump says Netanyahu won’t be arrested in New York, pushing back on Mamdani
Dr. Carole Lieberman, M.D., M.P.H., is known worldwide as America’s Psychiatrist and The Terrorist Therapist®. She is a board-certified psychiatrist, media commentator, and author who has spent decades analyzing terrorism and its psychological impact on society. Her latest book is “Lions and Tigers and Terrorists, Oh My! How to Protect Your Child in a Time of Terror.”
President Trump is forcefully rejecting calls surrounding Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s potential arrest if he visits New York, pushing back against NYC mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani and reigniting debate over U.S.-Israel relations, antisemitism, and the growing political divide over America’s closest ally in the Middle East.
Her newest episode of The Terrorist Therapist Show is titled: “Killing Ourselves By Suicidal Empathy.”
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8:10 Randal O’Toole is an Adjunct Scholar at Cascade Policy Institute, Oregon’s free market public policy research organization. He is a transportation and land-use policy analyst. O’Toole has a degree in forestry from Oregon State University and has spent several decades studying forest policy. He is the author of Reforming the Forest Serviceand The Perfect Firestorm: Bringing Forest Service Wildfire Costs Under Control.
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8:40 OPEN FOR BUSINESS WITH Lisa McClease-Kelly of Network in Action www.SoNetworking.com
Lisa brought two member guests today and we talked about their businesses!
- Megan Mickelson, Realtor with John L. Scott Southern Oregon – 541-951-4072
- Cecile Enright: Senior Consultant – Aligned Education Consulting infor@aligned-ed.com 541-237-7889
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6:35 Michael Pack, producer and director of The Lockdown Dissidents, the latest addition to WSJ Opinion Docs, a series of documentary films produced by a collaboration between The Wall Street Journal Opinion and Palladium Pictures, an independent production company.
WATCH THE DOCUMENTARY HERE: WATCH TRAILER HERE:
A new documentary offers a never-before-seen look into one of the most contentious moments in recent scientific history. During the COVID-19 pandemic, a group of prominent scientists challenged the prevailing government approach to lockdowns. Instead of being welcomed into the scientific debate, they claimed they were sidelined and censored.
The documentary features dissident scientists such as now NIH Director Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, former White House coronavirus adviser Dr. Scott Atlas and former CDC Director Dr. Robert Redfield, as well as interviews with journalists David Zweig and Editorial Features Editor for WSJ Opinion James Taranto, both of whom also questioned the mainstream narrative surrounding the government’s COVID response.
“The Lockdown Dissidents” is the latest addition to WSJ Opinion Docs, a series of documentary films produced by a collaboration between The Wall Street Journal Opinion and Palladium Pictures, an independent production company.
“While many Americans would rather forget COVID, treating it as just a bad distant memory, we need to learn from what went wrong so that it never happens again, and especially that Americans never sacrifice their unalienable rights due to government pressure,” said Michael Pack, Palladium Pictures’s President, “With the rise of hantavirus, this documentary is more relevant than ever.”
7:15a – Greg Roberts from www.RogueWeather.com – Mr. Fire Report and Outdoor news
7:35 Bill Marler, the nation’s foremost food safety attorney – www.MARLERBLOG.COM
The multistate Cyclospora outbreak continues to grow. As of this week, cases have been reported in more than 30 states, with health officials in Michigan and Ohio investigating lettuce and salad greens as a possible source, and Taco Bell now among the establishments under scrutiny.
Bill Marler is the nation’s foremost food safety attorney and one of the most trusted voices in food safety litigation and advocacy. Bill has represented victims in nearly every major foodborne illness outbreak over the past three decades, including E. coli, Salmonella, and Cyclospora cases tied to produce.
Bill is also featured in the Netflix documentary “Poisoned: The Dirty Truth About Your Food,” which explores the failures in America’s food safety system — a subject directly relevant to why outbreaks like this one keep happening and why sourcing takes so long to pin down.
ill’s team maintains real-time coverage at Marler Blog (https://www.marlerblog.com), which is often ahead of mainstream reporting on case counts, implicated foods, and legal filings.
8:10 Dr. Powers, “Where Past Meets Present” www.DennisPowersBooks.com
The Hop Fields of Southern Oregon
By Dennis Powers
Used as a flavoring and stabilizing agent in brewing beer, hops were first grown on the East Coast and ultimately brought to the Pacific Northwest as farmers migrated westward. The female hop-flowers are used, and these help to prevent spoilage by retarding bacterial growth while imparting a taste that depends on the type of vine.
The Rogue River Valley between the Cascades and Coast Range was found to be fertile with mild temperatures and just right for growing hops. The industry centered in Josephine County, dating back to 1875 when hops were first grown; by 1905 a total of 365 acres of hops were under cultivation. Some 600 acres by the early 1930s were being grown in Josephine County.
It takes at least two years for hop plants to mature–the vines are worked upwards on wires strung between poles, sometimes ten feet high, just like roses grown on a trellis. One to two inches long, the conical fruit is light as a feather and turns into a yellowish-green color when ripe. Pruning of the vines typically begins in January, followed by repairing the trellises. The vines are cultivated, twined, and the fruit picked when ripe during a short summer season. The hops are then dried and processed.
Picking hops is hard work, and workers had to get used to the tedious work of “dust and sweat, scratchy vines, and sand in your shoes; dirty hands and the bitter taste that remains, even after washing one’s hands; filthy outhouses and community drinking cups.” Locals mainly worked in the hop yards, stripping the pungent flowers off the vines into a hamper, a heavy canvas bag hung on a round metal frame. It was estimated in the 1930s that an average picker made $1 per day, based on the number of pounds picked.
Weighers worked through the field to hang sacks on a scale and recorded the weight on a ticket. The sacks were then thrown onto a trailing truck, which transported the hops to kilns for drying; air blasts of 140- to 180-degrees Fahrenheit with a sulfurous acid gas fumigation then followed that killed the plant lice, pests, and blue mold. The dried hops were then cooled, compressed into large bales, and stored in a cool, dry place for future shipment to the breweries.
Since pickers were not paid by the hour, laborers could choose when to work, such as in cooler hours and stop to eat or take a “potty” break when they wanted to. Thus, kids on summer vacation could pick hops to earn money for themselves or help out the family.
In Josephine County in 1946 alone, framers harvested over 2,050,000 pounds of hops; at the industry’s peak in the 1950s, nearly 5,000 acres of hops were being cultivated in this region. Most of the hops were grown in Oregon, Washington, California, and New York, with the Willamette Valley a competitor to Josephine County. The hop industry in Southern Oregon, however, dramatically decreased over time by the eighties, due to the mechanization of farms in other locations, overproduction with low hop prices, and the changing tastes of beer drinkers to preferring light beers that didn’t need the types of hops then grown here.
The 250-acre Sunny Brook Hop Yards by Grants Pass was the last, large hop grower outside of the Willamette Valley. In the late 1980s, it stopped production; the property was sold in 1989 to the Naumes family’s Wild River Orchards, who planted the site with pear trees. The City of Grants Pass purchased the property in early 2006 for a future park ($2.7 million purchase price), and it’s now named the River Road Reserve.
In 2020, the Grants Pass City Council sold the 231-acre River Road Reserve to TMB Racing, a horse racing company owned by Dutch Bros co-founder Travis Boersma, for $3.5 million. When Salem turned against what Boersma was trying to do, he pulled out and stopped his efforts. Dutcher Creek Enterprises (owned by Travis Boersma) uses it to serve as a mixed-use expansion of the adjacent Dutcher Creek Golf Course (built on the original dairy farm owned by the Boersmas) and an equestrian facility.
Hops are now trained on low trellises, and hop machines now pick instead of workers. As every agricultural product has cycles of low and high prices, hop costs tripled in a short time during the late 2000s. These price increases caused different farms to consider going back into the business. Hop prices then declined. Oregon currently with its Willamette Valley is still the second-highest commercial producer of hops behind Washington (75% of the country’s production, centered in its Yakima Valley) for 95% of all production.
Hemp and marijuana production has replaced growing hops in Southern Oregon. There is a cycle for everything and this region is no different.
Sources: Michael Oaks, “Hops: A One-Time Thriving Industry in Josephine County, Grants Pass, Oregon,” Josephine County Historical Society: June 2002; Harriet Smith Guardino, “Of Hops and Men”, Josephine County Historical Society, June 2002; Andi Prewitt, “Where Did the Southern Oregon Hop Farms Go?”, Oregon Beer Growler, Sept. 23, 2017.
8:40 Kelly Blakes from Futurity First, in addition to Melissa Mlasko discuss their upcoming classes this week:
Free Medicare educational workshops
Join us Tuesday, July 21st at Central Point Parks and Recreation on South Haskell Street in Central Point, or Thursday, July 23rd in our Financial Learning Center on Crater Lake Avenue in Medford.
Both classes begin at 5:30.
No-pressure, relaxed environment.
There’s limited seating, so sign up today at https://medicare-made-for-you-dot-org .