“There’s a lot of data out there showing that too little serotonin can lead to habitual repetitive thinking,” Austin De La Cruz, Pharm D., clinical assistant professor at the University of Houston College of Pharmacy, said. “An individual might think that they’re not good enough, no one understands them, no one loves them, everything is terrible.”…
We are at a moment of profound crisis but also far-reaching opportunity. Much depends on whether enough of us can deepen our empathy for each other, build our sense of common purpose, and identity with a ‘larger us’ – one that includes all the world’s 7.5 billion (and rising) people, as well as other species…
Communal needs have never been freely met by elite actors. It is of vital importance to recognize that this moment in time is not a unique aberration, but is intimately tied to that which came before; the past does not pass. This includes the harms that go unacknowledged and the systemic problems that “psychedelic leaders”…
“I think the intellectual property is going to be around dosage-control systems” for psychedelics like psilocybin-containing mushrooms, Linton said. Linton said people… wanted to “get rich quick.” “I’m cheering for the entrepreneur,” Linton said. “So I don’t want to cheer for an idiot.” Original Article (Business Insider):…who built Canopy Growth…Artwork Fair Use: eflon
A new company… just raised $6.2 million to try to make psychedelics without their characteristic hallucinogenic qualities, so that the compounds can be used in medicines for diseases like addiction. Based in the US and Canada, MindMed’s team of 11 is scattered across Toronto, New York, and San Francisco. The company’s first goal is getting…
…centuries of biased propaganda and policy associating currently-illicit, plant-based substances with chaos, violence, and malice. As a society beginning to seriously discuss creative alternatives to the punishment- and abstinence-based status quo, we must acknowledge that maintaining drug prohibition requires both a misappropriation and control of substances that are… [naturally-occurring] to certain lands and cultures. Decolonizing drug use on…
You see, now that it’s becoming legal, there’s nothing special about marijuana. Like corn or wheat, it’s a crop. Marijuana is a commodity. It’s all roughly the same, no matter where or how it’s grown … The apple is a versatile fruit. Yet, selling apples is far from lucrative … After much hype, investors have…
The activists hurled a blizzard of “blood money” in the air — mock one-dollar bills printed with the word “Oxy” and splattered with red paint — and spilled mock prescription bottles across the steps of the courthouse. They spread themselves across the cement for a 200-second die-in and moment of silence for the nearly 200…
“If [the Sacklers] have the perception — and it’s the correct perception — that ‘people like us just don’t go to jail, we just don’t, so the worst that’s going to happen is you take some reputational stings and you’ll have to write a check,’ that seems like a recipe for nurturing criminality,” Keith Humphreys,…
A Massachusetts judge has denied a motion to dismiss a lawsuit that claims members of the Sackler family and the company they own, Purdue Pharma, helped create the nation’s opioid epidemic. In a decision released late Tuesday afternoon (10/9/2019), Suffolk Superior Court Judge Janet Sanders said Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey has jurisdiction to pursue the 17…
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