Biography/Memoir

Meet the people’s champion for psychedelic drugs

“It’s only in recent years that studying the positive effects of psychedelics has gained traction in mainstream media after several well-known studies emerged following a decades’ long ban of its use in labs and clinical trials since 1970.” “He’s been one of the most intelligent champions for psychedelics as medicine,” says Alex Grey, a visionary…

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Modern Culture

…the war on weed culture

*Blue: LegalOrange: Illegal but decriminalizedPink: Illegal but often unenforcedRed: IllegalGrey: No information “It is widely regarded that the opioid crisis was spurred by big pharmaceutical companies that liberally prescribed the addictive drugs like Oxycontin and Vicodin, not marijuana consumers.” A 2014 report from the John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health found that in states…

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Science

Psychedelic drugs might actually tap into a higher power

Just this month, scientists applied cutting-edge neuroimaging techniques to find out what exactly LSD does to the human brain, in hopes that research on the drug will regain credence in the scientific community that Hofmann himself proudly represented. The stigma leftover from the 1960s remains hard to shake, but LSD has slowly been undergoing a…

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