“He’ll say, ‘You know the Chinese and Filipinos don’t have a drug problem. They just kill them.’ ” President Trump has long expressed admiration for how Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has encouraged the extrajudicial murder of anyone suspected of dealing drugs. An estimated 12,000 people have been killed by police and vigilantes in the Philippines…
But first, let’s clean up the name because, although LSD is called “acid,” it really shouldn’t be, at least according to chemists. Lysergic acid, a natural product which is produced by ergot fungus, has, as the name implies, a functional group called a carboxylic acid (blue circle), hence the name. But lysergic acid is not…
An Oregon company is recalling three brands of kratom powder products because samples have tested positive for Salmonella and an illness has been reported in connection with one of the products … “Consumers who may be in possession of potentially contaminated products are advised not to consume products labeled with the above product descriptions and…
Are psychedelic users happier than the rest of us? According to a recent study in the Journal of Psychopharmacology, the answer is yes. Breaking harmful neural patterns and allowing the brain to make new connections is one of the mechanisms by which psychedelics improve mental health … The pharmaceutical therapies currently used in the…
In Gabon it takes at least ten years to be a master initiator and to see Westerners as master initiators in two months is shocking” write Yann Guignon, founder of the NGO “Blessing of the Forest”. In Gabon it is inseparable from the rites of passage (“bwiti”) but about 50 years ago its use was…
The (2016) UNGASS (Special Session of the General Assembly UNGASS 2016) process [was] been marred by efforts to shut down dissenting voices and by the use of Kafkaesque procedures to make criticism of the current approach invisible. The UNGASS process has been marred by secret negotiations and by twisting processes in order to maintain…
Many have even reported therapeutic advantage of the [LSD and psilocybin] which scientists described as working in a manner similar to that of antidepressants. [LSD and psilocybin] may be popular at parties but they also seem to have some long term results for individuals. Original Article (Deccanchronile):LSD and magic mushrooms can alter personality making people…
But how can you tell if psilocybin might help someone? The way you speak may reveal whether a psychedelic… could help treat depression or anxiety. Robin Carhart-Harris and his team at Imperial College London have been testing psilocybin – a hallucinogen found in magic mushrooms – in people with treatment-resistant depression. Their pilot study found…
“I am a capitalist, not a conspiracy theorist,” (disabled Marine) Larson says. “But it doesn’t take a genius to see that if a cheap plant [like kratom] stands to diminish the need for billions of dollars in pharmaceutical sales [of opiates such as fentanyl, oxycodone, methadone, buprenorphine, suboxone, etc.), well, someone decided it was time…
As in Amazonia with ayahuasca, more and more Western tourists come to Gabon to “learn” Bwiti. A draft decree must set the conditions and modalities for the use of iboga, but also frame its sale to “develop a commercial sector” Gabon. At the same time, a survey mission of the plant throughout the Congo Basin…
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