Is all this time and money worth it? Given that the sessions are expected to cost hundreds, if not thousands, of dollars – and, obviously, won’t be covered by insurance… I find it hard to believe there’ll really be enough rich people to keep all the currently training PSFs [psilocybin services facilitator] busy. (Then again,…
…there is no visible effort at the federal or provincial level to take action against the out-in-the-open… sale of magic mushrooms. …some cities, including Vancouver, Toronto and Ottawa, psilocybin can be easily found at a growing number of brick-and-mortar shops openly selling magic mushrooms. And a web search for such products shows they are readily…
Senator Kim Thatcher proposal at the request of former U.S. Attorney Billy Williams… the authority may adopt rules to carry out… if the applicant described… is not the owner of the premises to be licensed under [psilocybin cubensis related] ORS 475A.290 and the authority is able to verify ownership of the premises with the information…
2023 is shaping up to be an especially active year for psychedelics policy changes in legislatures across the [United States]… …[according to] the findings of [an] analysis published in an American Medical Association journal [in December 2022]. That study concluded that a majority of states will legalize psychedelics by 2037, based on statistical modeling of…
Patients characterized by stress-related disorders such as depression display elevated circulating concentrations of pro-inflammatory cytokines and a hyperactive HPA axis. Psychedelics are demonstrating promising results in treatment of such disorders… Psilocybin immediately reduced concentrations of the pro-inflammatory cytokine tumor necrosis factor-α (TNF-α), while other inflammatory markers (interleukin (IL)-1α, IL-1β, IL-6, and C-reactive protein (CRP)) remained…
SB 58; Ash Kalra… is a principal co-author… co-authored by assembly members Buffy Wicks… Evan Low… Matt Haney… Alex Lee… Isaac Bryan… Lola Smallwood-Cuevas… Senator Wiener is a leader within a larger movement to end the so-called “War on Drugs and its failed and destructive policies.” He’s also advocated for opening “safe consumption sites” for…
…the idea that any of us are neutral is a fallacy. You can’t be neutral on a moving train. Bridges, for that matter, aren’t neutral either. Bridges hold tension, receiving charge and information from all sides, not to neutralize but to ensure a balanced exchange… just because people voted “no” doesn’t mean they are prohibitionists.…
Compared to the gradual collapse of marijuana prohibition, psychedelic policy seems to be shifting remarkably fast. While states began banning cannabis a century ago, culminating in the Marihuana Tax Act of 1937, prohibition of psychedelics was enacted in the late 1960s… [for example, in Virginia], proposing to make psilocybin, the hallucinogenic substance found in “magic…
MDMA will be either approved or rejected as a legal prescription medicine. …positive results from… a multi-site Phase 3 study of MDMA-assisted therapy for post-traumatic stress disorder (“PTSD”). The study met both the primary endpoint as measured by the change from baseline in Clinician-Administered PTSD Scale for DSM-5 (“CAPS-5”) and the key secondary endpoint of…
From what researchers have seen so far, however, there has not been compelling evidence that these drugs can work without the holistic process of preparation, “trip” and integration. …many researchers are excited to get their hands on a new set of tools to help treat mental disorders that have long resisted conventional forms of treatment……
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