“I don’t need clinical studies to convince me ayahuasca is good medicine, that it’s helping people, but you can publish them [and it’s] a good way to convince skeptical colleagues in biomedicine” Is it ethical to try and take a medicine like this and stuff it into a biomedical research structure? Is that the right…
“Continued, much less intensified, enforcement of marijuana prohibition would be a tragedy. The drug war has created more than enough societal disasters, both domestically and internationally, since Nixon launched that initiative. Millions of Americans have had their lives disrupted and acquired the stigma of a criminal record for doing nothing more than choosing to use…
…[in Brazil] the potion itself was legalised in the 1992, after studies found it had positive effects on religious communities who drink the “tea” as their sacrament. Ayahuasca is also considered a medicine – even “the great medicine” of the Amazon basin. It has intense purgative effects and may work against parasites, as well as…
“This law guarantees coca for life, this is our struggle.” The new law expands the country’s authorized coca plantation zones to 22,000 hectares (55,000 acres) from the previous 12,000 hectares. The coca plant has many traditional uses in the Andes, including as a remedy for altitude sickness. When chewed, its leaves also provide mild stimulation…
*worldwide PTSD rates per 100,000 (2002) [Age-standardised disability-adjusted life year ] “I studied social work for my master’s degree and worked in a lot of highly traumatised communities as a therapist; I worked in a middle-school in the South Bronx with children with really high rates of trauma, with women arrested for sex work, and…
“This is an important step forward for Britain in a field of research that has, for too long, been held back by prejudice, fear and ignorance.” -Sir Patrick Stewart Prof Ahmed Ahmed of Oxford’s Nuffield Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology said existing studies were beginning to produce exciting findings which could result in new treatments.…
“Research has found that a single dose of psilocybin, accompanied by therapy, is almost like a “surgical intervention” for people with mental health issues. It has even been seen to treat conditions that have resisted standard treatments in the past.” LSD and psilocybin (the active ingredient in magic mushrooms) are potent psychedelic substances that can…
“Even federal authorities, longtime skeptics of the merits of marijuana legalization, are starting to come around to the findings. “We had predicted based on the changes in legalization, culture in the U.S. as well as decreasing perceptions among teenagers that marijuana was harmful [and] that [accessibility and use] would go up,” Nora Volkow, director of…
“The US Drug Enforcement Agency has not yet documented one overdose fatality stemming from the drug itself… at least 20 marijuana-related drug raids since 2010 that have ended in at least one death… suspects have been killed during these raids for as little as 0.2 grams of marijuana.” Drug raids targeting marijuana have been a…
“What we do know is that psychedelics have a fundamentally different effect on the brain than highly addictive drugs like alcohol, nicotine, or cocaine.” Cocaine, for example, is thought to elicit a deep, euphoric sensation by temporarily flooding the brain’s reward and motivation centers, which in some people can trigger a cycle of reinforcement and…
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