An educational, yet leisurely self-paced stroll through the gardens of ethnobotanical and psychedelic plant science, health, policy, and human-rights knowledge… …the Eugene Center for Ethnobotanical Studies blog will take you on EXPLORATORY EXCURSIONS INTO GAIAN DATA FORESTS. Original Article (Think Wilder):The best psychedelic blogs and publicationsArtwork Fair Use: ECfES
More than 50 leading kratom vendors and advocacy groups gathered to discuss the future of kratom in America at the first Kratom Leadership Summit on Monday, April 30, 2018. Henningfield told attendees that the FDA and those fighting to ban kratom are misguided in their understanding of the plant’s effects and its purported opioid-like qualities.…
This is not about whether you think drugs are good or bad. It is an evidence based position entirely in line with the public health approach to violent crime. When law enforcement officers call for drugs to be legalised, we have to listen. So too when doctors speak up. Last month the Royal College of…
“It appears they [Insys] are trying to kill a non-pharmaceutical market for marijuana in order to line their own pockets,” a spokesman for Arizona’s marijuana legalization campaign said of Insys last year … The company [Insys] last year said that it opposed the marijuana legalization measure because “it fails to protect the safety of Arizona’s…
At the outset of the study, 27 professionals from various fields were given three tests which objectively measure creativity … Several days later they took the tests again. Except this time they were under the influence of 200mgs of mescaline. Their scores improved dramatically … Creativity drives societal and technological progress. Psychedelics markedly increase creativity.…
Twenty United States veterans commit suicide every day … To say that America is simply “failing its veterans” is an understatement. The government has played an active role in facilitating and perpetuating the mental health crisis among our veterans and the population at large. The DEA, however, designated MDMA a Schedule 1 narcotic in 1985,…
No doubt it’s difficult to make a case for psychedelic drugs without sounding like a kook. One of the defining qualities of a powerful trip is the sense that mere words can’t do justice to it. …[demonstrably] the neuroscience of the drugs and their evident ability to suppress activity in a brain system known as…
“The risks are psychological. When they’re used carelessly, which is to say without a guide, sometimes people have really bad trips, most of which are just panic attacks that people recover from. But there are occasional psychotic breaks or episodes, so people really have to be careful and treat them as the powerful medicines that…
As part of the domestication of this plant with medicinal properties … [he] has developed a plot of 2.5 hectares. 9800 plants have been planted for a year. “The idea came to me from the research that was asked of me by [a] Professor a few years ago. He had asked me to study the…
They have done much to shape the world we live in … Yet they are very hard to pin down. ‘Set and setting’ (i.e. circumstance and expectation) profoundly influence what happens when you take them, and their effects are highly subjective. They are an ouroboros of an observer’s paradox, worming their way between the territories of…
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