“These plant medicines are straight from the earth and they are there to help you. After a few months of microdosing, you feel better. There are times when they help me with mental stimulation, memory and awareness. It’s a healthy way to stay tuned in.” “LSD is similar to cutting out dairy or meat, how…
“On a personal level, psychedelics have seemingly cured the chronic depression that made my inner world miserable for 20 years. They’ve also helped me be a more thoughtful and creative person.”… The anti-depressant effects experienced by Mauss appear to be testable and reliable. Also, his belief that psychedelics changed his personality for the better holds…
Cannabis has been a big part of my life—I am proud to say that I was the biggest cannabis supporter at Harvard Business School. I believe cannabis helped me get accepted to Harvard Business School, and it certainly helped me graduate and figure out what is next. When I finished business school, I looked in…
To clarify: The program does not offer “psychedelic-assisted therapy”— the administration by a health-care professional of psychedelic drugs for the purpose of treatment. Rather than a place for people to take drugs, the Center is for people who have had an experience with psychedelics on their own, or are thinking about using them.” “Psychedelics can…
“Most powerful substances that we know of, that have powerful effects on the central nervous system, are like any powerful tool,” says Johnson, who has studied how psilocybin affects depression. “They can have dangerous effects, or beneficial effects, if judiciously used in a context where the dangers are known and mechanisms are in place to…
A south Jersey man injured on the job at a lumber company will have his medical marijuana tab paid by his employer’s workers compensation insurance, according to a state administrative law judge ruling in what appears to be the first decision of its kind in the state…Administrative Law Judge Ingrid L. French said based on…
“During his 12-hour experience, designed to help stop his destructive drinking habit, King sat on the edge of the bed and looked at the photo of his son that he’d brought. Suddenly, the child became alive in the picture, which initially frightened him. Then King noticed that a lick of his son’s hair was out…
“Legalization can go wrong if it’s not done in a strictly regulated way. Just look at how alcohol-induced deaths have steadily increased for years — or how the worst US drug epidemic ever is rooted in a drug legally prescribed by doctors.” But there’s another reading of this chart that the DEA in particular won’t…
“The researchers, however, need to test this further since they haven’t used the method on either mice and humans but only with neurons in the laboratory. They are hoping that the next step will be live clinical trials to further their research.” Now comes two separate research that has been done recently suggesting that strobe…
Researchers at Johns Hopkins and New York Universities are giving psilocybin, the active ingredient in magic mushrooms, to ordained ministers in the hopes that they can help provide some answers. So far, they have enrolled thirteen religious leaders including an Orthodox Jewish rabbi, a Zen Buddhist roshi, an Episcopalian, a Greek Orthodox priest, and a…
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