Researchers have found endogenous psychedelic production in the human brain and gut, the latter of which occurs with the help of symbiotic gut microbes. The similarities between exogenous and endogenous psychedelics and the reasons humans synthesize psychoactive compounds are taking scientists on a mind-bending trip across millions of years of evolution. In doing so, they…
How, then, might citizen scientists develop standards given the difficulty of obtaining these tools? Our discussion highlights how the pragmatic goals of knowledge production… consumed their medicine in the form of homegrown psilocybe mushrooms because they lacked access… of citizen science differ from the institutionalized scientists’ need to legitimate their findings with academic journals, peers,…
It is becoming clear that interoception could be just as crucial to well-being as neural circuitry or genetics. In fact, it may be fundamental to human health precisely because it is fundamental to consciousness. An emerging understanding of consciousness suggests that it may be rooted more deeply than cerebral interactions – specifically, in the body’s…
The passage of Measure 110 was the culmination of years of efforts to show Oregonians and people across the country that the harms of incarceration can compound on, exacerbate, and – in some cases- exceed the harms caused by drug use itself. Oregon’s Health Authority has reported a 44 percent increase in people seeking treatment…
Here we demonstrate in mice that the ability to reopen the social reward learning critical period is a shared property across psychedelic drugs. Notably, the time course of critical period reopening is proportional to the duration of acute subjective effects reported in humans. Furthermore, the ability to reinstate social reward learning in adulthood is paralleled…
The Portuguese authorities have not stopped targeting organised crime. Law enforcement officials The Journal met in Lisbon confirmed that they are still seizing tonnes of drugs annually. Psychologist Roberta Reis said many of the service users come from work in the evenings. “They come here and they can function normally,” she said. “We asked our service users…
…remember when tripping on mushrooms in the forest and taking MDMA on a dance floor at an underground rave was fun? Not on the corporate psychedelia watch. Psychedelics are tools of the medical establishment now, cogs in a closed loop economy dictated by pharmaceutical conglomerates and their armies of gatekeepers. Tripping is now serious business……
Eris Nyx, one of the store’s managers, looked on from the cash point. She runs the shop with Jeremy Kalicum, who was in the back office weighing and packaging cocaine, heroin and methamphetamine. “The fact that we’re not in jail is unbelievable,” said Eris. “I think about that every day.” Their shop was the culmination…
The bill passed the assembly 42-11 and now returns to the senate for final sign-off before heading to Gov. Gavin Newsom for final review. If passed, SB 58 is slated to go into effect on Jan. 1, 2025. The bill was supported by veterans, first responders and health professionals, according to Sen. Weiner. Substances covered…
In fact, these substances could do more to combat the root causes of addiction than many of the laws I enforced as an officer… SB58 would remove criminal penalties for the personal possession and use of a few naturally occurring psychedelic medicines in reasonable quantities… a recent UC Berkeley survey offers a glimpse of where the public…
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