We cannot know the future, but there are a number of reasons to believe that psychedelic medicine really can break out of its ghetto and into the mainstream … What must not be allowed to happen is for these promising and much-needed drugs to fail for anything other than the purest of scientific reasons. More…
[Frank] Olson’s possible murder, and the conspiracy to cover up the death of a man who may have been ready to reveal government secrets. Morris’s inquiry began with his interest in a secret 1950s-60s C.I.A. program called “MK-Ultra,” which employed drugs and deception tactics—and most of whose records have been destroyed … A subsequent 1975…
The only model I can see is one that, presumably through tax incentives, facilitates development of small, not-for profit membership organizations that have both (a) the ability to monitor use by individual members and (b) the ability either (1) to cultivate/manufacture their own ‘products’ [I use that term deliberately] or (2) the ability to purchase…
“The rates of drug use among teenagers in our country are the lowest they’ve ever been for some drugs,” said Dr. Nora Volkow, director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse. Teens may not be scared of marijuana, but they do view cigarettes as dangerous … Use of prescription painkillers fell to new lows, even…
Dr George says that it is important to note that “every chronic medical condition can relapse.” But “it doesn’t mean that treatment does not work. They just go back to learning again how to prevent a future relapse.” Referring to the MDMA trial, he adds that “the most important thing is the therapy, not the…
…and then tried to prevent the man’s parents from finding out what happened … The Dallas County District Attorney … found sufficient evidence to file criminally negligent homicide charges against Mesquite officers for shocking Dyer in the testicles and failing to restrain the disoriented man — but the three-year statute of limitations had already passed.…
*Dark Green: Use of cannabis permitted, no doctor’s recommendation required / Green: Use of cannabis permitted only with a doctor’s recommendation / Light Green: States with low-THC, high-CBD laws in place / Grey: No medical cannabis or low-THC, high-CBD laws Most Americans think marijuana should be legal, and an even larger majority, including most Republicans,…
It might sound out there, but then again, several years ago, so did the idea that you might walk into a store and buy cannabis products. Tom Eckert said they believed that a legalized path to use of psychedelic mushrooms could help people struggling with depression, anxiety, alcoholism and addiction to nicotine. “The initiative attempts…
It’s likely that, while you’ve been watering it, you have mumbled something to the cactus on your coffee table or the yucca tree by your window. But there are some people who claim to have actually communicated with plants—and nature at large—after taking acid or other psychedelics. Most pass these conversations off as mere hallucinations,…
Thomas and his two colleagues, Benjamin Malcolm and Dan Lastra, came to this conclusion after reviewing seven clinical trials on psilocybin-assisted therapy. These previous studies were published over the past decade and examined cancer-related anxiety, obsessive-compulsive disorder, depressive disorders, and addiction. “This therapy has also demonstrated large effect sizes for improving symptoms on validated psychiatric…
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