*Gastón Guzmán Huerta (August 26, 1932 – January 12, 2016), a Mexican mycologist and anthropologist, was an authority on the genus Psilocybe. Unlike 4/20, 9/20 events aren’t intended as gatherings for people to get high together. Instead, they’re mostly lectures, salons, or meetups that prioritize the goals of research and policy rather than the joys…
Immediately after the kidnapping, Schoefield and others who knew Smith took to social media, asking for help from anyone who knew the beloved barber-turned-budtender from Toledo, Ohio. The three suspects have not been identified by police. The man and woman who entered the store were captured by the store’s surveillance cameras, which police have…
“A few hundred micrograms–the weight of a single grain of salt–are enough to trigger heroin-like bliss,” writes the Globe and Mail. “But the line between euphoria and fatal overdose is frighteningly thin: An amount the size of two grains of salt can kill a healthy adult.” “The RCMP [Royal Canadian Mounted Police] issued a warning…
Although psilocybin has long been regarded with suspicion by law enforcement [in some regions], it has been coming clean on the biosynthetic front. Details of psilocybin’s enzymatic synthesis have been uncovered by scientists based at the University of Jena and the Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology. Starting with 4-hydroxy-L-tryptophan and using…
Saunders’ initiative seeks to exempt adults ages 21 and over from “criminal penalties and decriminalizes adult use of psilocybin,” as well as any penalties that would occur from the “possession, sale, transport and cultivation” of the drug. He believes that current changing attitudes towards legalization efforts warrant the consideration of his initiative. “What I want…
Newberg, the director of research at Philadelphia’s Jefferson Myrna Brind Center of Integrative Medicine [and] his research into how the brain responds to stimulus like prayer and drugs. Newberg explained one study that examined the brains of nuns who engaged in “centering prayer,” which is meant to create a feeling one oneness with God. The…
Mendel Kaelen, a PhD student in neuroscience at Imperial College, has led several studies investigating the combined influence of music and psychedelic drugs in human trials. One of the challenges? Choosing the music. Kaelen was involved in a groundbreaking trial that used fMRI and MEG scans to image the brain on LSD for the first…
*BOTH Ayahuasca alkaloids, harmine and THH (Tetrahydroharmine), created increases in young neurons. THH increases pictured here. Researchers placed the most prevalent alkaloids in ayahuasca, harmine and tetrahydroharmine, in a petri dish with hippocampal stem cells and saw that this greatly increased the rate at which these cells were able to develop into fully mature neurons.…
In California and Colorado, entrepreneurs are eyeing the secure walls of two closed prisons as a perfect place to grow medical marijuana. About 150 state prisons like this one closed after the recession, the result of declining prison populations and consolidations meant to save on operating costs. Many of the properties have sat vacant for…
Steve Jobs and Bill Gates both experiment[ed] with [LSD]. Kerry Mullis, who won a Nobel prize in chemistry for his development in the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) (turning a single segment of DNA into millions of identical copies), said that the large amount of LSD he took in the 1960’s and 1970’s was “much more…
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