…this will… be the first time in 25 years that the FDA will review a new treatment for PTSD… The FDA is set to decide on the therapy’s fate by the middle of August [2024]… if rescheduled, then lobbying efforts will shift to individual states. Some have policies on the books that will immediately follow…
The recreational and medicinal markets are far more intertwined than many are aware. As so often happens… we have seen this phenomenon with cannabis and opioids, and it now appears to be happening with psychedelics. A recent survey found that less than 34 per cent of Canadians who reported using psychedelics did so to self-medicate…
In true holiday fashion, the Denver Mushroom Cooperative held a Gifting Portal for psilocybin enthusiasts… The Gifting Portal was free to attend and didn’t allow any money to change hands. Participants were encouraged to share their homegrown mushrooms as well as cultivation advice, supplies and more… the free event had a full RSVP list with an approximate…
In five years… Church of Ambrosia has amassed 106,000 members across its two locations in Oakland and San Francisco. Ambrosia members pay $10 to join and $5 to enter the church… granting them access to church sacraments… magic mushrooms… It is thought there are now anywhere between 200 and 2,000 psychedelic churches in the US…
Earl Bluemenauer, a long-time advocate for marijuana legalization for decades, said he thinks the U.S. policy needs to end the hybridization of state and federal rules of the current system… Blumenauer said he hopes the rule change will lead to enough holdouts reversing course for the Safer Banking Act to pass, which would deschedule marijuana…
…in which a novel topological data analysis (TDA) method is applied to the neurophysiological study of the synergistic effects of meditation and psychedelics. …intriguing evidence of similarities in the phenomenology and neurophysiology of meditation and psychedelics has been found… recent reviews suggest that meditation and psychedelics exhibit similarities and complementary differences, which may indicate potential…
That question is now before one of the nation’s highest courts… …pitting the DEA’s law enforcement authority against state powers to regulate medicine… Washington, Washington D.C., Delaware, Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, Oregon and Pennsylvania… have weighed in directly… the state coalition filed a brief that accused the DEA of reaching far beyond its law enforcement…
The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration will move to reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous drug, The Associated Press has learned, a historic shift to generations of American drug policy that could have wide ripple effects across the country… Cannabis is currently classified along with drugs like heroin and LSD. The administration is expected to reschedule…
…it appears as though the owners of psilocybin shops have no plans to shut down for good. “This is like some kind of terrible drug war anachronism from some other era that shouldn’t even be on the books and we’re hopefully going to change that,” FunGuyz lawyer Paul Lewin. According to the former Ontario Provincial…
What are the notable acute adverse effects for therapeutic doses of psilocybin in the treatment of depression and anxiety? [Date Sources:] MEDLINE via PubMed, Web of Science, and ClinicalTrials.gov were searched for publications available between 1966 and November 30, 2023. In this meta-analysis of 6 randomized, double-blind clinical trials with 528 patients, headaches, nausea, anxiety,…
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