As part of their efforts to better understand DEA’s administrative process, Aggarwal [Washington State, Seattle] and his counsel have submitted several Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests for relevant documents. DEA’s FOIA policy states that it will consider waiving or reducing fees if the requester is shows that the information is “in the public interest because…
Just a quarter of a milligram – 0.25 milligrams – can kill you. For a sense of just how little that is, a typical baby aspirin tablet is 81 mg. If you cut that tablet into 324 pieces, one of those pieces would be equal to a quarter-milligram. In the year ending in April 2019,…
When pressed on why the police nor the city have moved to shut the business down – let alone make any arrests – representatives of both have expressed that they’re more concerned with addressing the opioid crisis rather than wrestling with the increasingly embraced psychedelic scene. It probably isn’t a stretch to guess that they…
The durability of treatment could… be challenged by commercial pressure to reduce the psychiatric component of psilocybin therapy, so that the drug can be given to as many people as possible. Charles Raison, a psychiatrist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison who is currently overseeing a phase II clinical trial of psilocybin, is concerned about how…
So, what can we expect from [Oregon] psilocybin production… centers? Mushroom production is considered a commercial farm use and it will require a license, tracking and security (similar to Oregon’s cannabis regulatory system). Growing the mushrooms is a small-scale, indoor, odorless activity and because the psilocybin therapy is long-lasting, only a very small harvest (for…
Published in the Journal, Drug Science, Policy and Law, [with authors Rayyan Zafar and David Nutt (who performed the first MRI of a human brain under the influence of LSD)], from Imperial College London, Centre for Psychedelic Research and Neuropsychopharmacology, UK: this case highlights the plausible therapeutic role of such plant-based medicines in oncology treatment…
In fact, it increasingly seems that pain – one of the most universal experiences in the human condition – is now the next frontier for psychedelics after mental health. “As a non-addictive alternative to opioids, psychedelics represent a revolutionary and much-needed new approach to the treatment of pain,” according to the Psychedelics and Health Research Initiative…
More than 40 researchers now work at the center on studies looking at the effects of psilocybin on anorexia, smoking, major depressive disease, Alzheimer’s disease, and other conditions… …patients are already clamoring for the treatment, which for many brings dramatic results in just a few sessions… “cautiously optimistic” that the Food and Drug Administration and…
“I have a tremendous amount of respect for the research but it’s a completely sanitized, you know, sterilized subject pool. There’s all kinds of exclusion criteria and so it’s interesting, it gets a little bit more murky when you start to say well we’re going to study alcohol use disorder with co-morbid depression, right, so…
In adulthood, most kids who were… of 90s counterculture revolutions such as grunge, punk, and techno can relate and reminisce about the state of partying experienced in the last few years on Earth before humans had global access to the internet… this trajectory went from beer and liquor to weed and hash, followed by mushrooms… after mushrooms, many moved…
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