“Our findings suggest the protective effects of classic psychedelic use are attributable to genuine reductions in antisocial behaviour rather than reflecting improved evasion of arrest. Simply put, the positive effects associated with classic psychedelic use appear to be reliable. Given the costs of criminal behaviour, the potential represented by this treatment paradigm is significant.” -UBC…
“I believe that psychedelics hold a potential to cure deep psychological wounds, and I believe that by investigating their neuropsychopharmacological mechanism, we can learn to understand this potential,” study author Leor Roseman, a PhD student at Imperial College London told PsyPost. A study has revealed that majority of patients taking mushrooms, seemed to have eased…
In recent years, certain places have started updating their laws to restore a sense of proportionality to the way they regulate drugs … As of 2016, according to the Global Commision on Drug Policy report, roughly a quarter of a billion people worldwide used drugs that were illegal. Nearly 90% of them did so without…
Perhaps the absence of the Cole Memo, and the outrage following its repeal, will finally get Congress to act and do something meaningful. In reality, the Cole Memo was limited, vague, and had no force of law – any Attorney General could overturn it at will (as… has… been done). It was the appearance of…
“I believe that psychedelics hold a potential to cure deep psychological wounds, and I believe that by investigating their neuropsychopharmacological mechanism, we can learn to understand this potential,” explained study author Leor Roseman, a PhD student at Imperial College London. “It is important to emphasize that psilocybin-assisted therapy is a model in which the patient…
What’s striking is the alleviation of depression occurs from emotional receptivity being enhanced – the opposite of SSRI antidepressants. “It has been proposed that decreased amygdala responsiveness to negative emotional stimuli under SSRIs is a key component of their therapeutic action,” the researchers explain, “but the present study’s findings suggest that this model does…
After sexual violence left her struggling with PTSD, Egbert said, “mushrooms gave me the feeling that I’m worth something. It’s like a restart.” And when Egbert started reaching out across Colorado in recent weeks, she was in for a surprise. Turns out, her group wasn’t the only one working toward a vote on mushrooms. There…
‘You can’t stop it so what you have to do is regulate the use.” ‘If they had known it was however strong; had they known it was 80mg in that particular pill for instance, they might have taken one or two. There’s no way they would have taken the whole lot.’ What he is proposing…
It said it acknowledged the “negative impact” of some drug use but added that prohibitionist policies “increased stigma”, telling political leaders not to “stoke fears” about drug use. It added that current laws treated people who use drugs as “sub-human, non-citizens and scapegoats for wider societal problems”. The Global Commission’s latest report advises political leaders…
For the better part of 40 years the recipient of that check [money from various funding sources] has almost exclusively been …drug or alcohol treatment facility based on the 12 Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous—a self help-style system developed by and for alcohol abusers more than 80 years ago, when neuroscience was in its infancy. To…
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