On November 8, Colorado voted to legalize the medicinal use of psilocybin and psilocin—the two active compounds in psychedelic mushrooms—joining Oregon to become the second state to do so.
Just when dry shampoo seemed like the holy grail of non-hair-washing, an independent lab has found that at least 34 different brands contained “quantifiable” amounts of benzene, a chemical that can cause cancer. The New Haven-based Valisure found that in 70% of the 148 samples they tested, benzene levels were 170 times higher than the FDA-approval level, which is two parts per million, or two milligrams per liter of a liquid.
