Spirituality

…‘psychedelic church’ to provide support services for… 4/20 event

The Church of Ambrosia, a self-described “psychedelic church,” announced it will be providing support services on Hippie Hill Saturday, “cancellation or not.” …the church said it would be partnering with local Haight Ashbury merchants and nonprofit groups to provide a basic “safety net” of services like water, medical aid, portable toilets, and trash pickup. Original…

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Science

Decoding psilocybin: “magical” enzymatic pathways…

Psilocybin is formed by fungi in complex biochemical processes from the amino acid L-tryptophan. The enzyme PsiM, a methyltransferase, plays an important role in this process. It catalyzes two methylation reactions in succession, the last two steps in the production of psilocybin. …a team from the Medical University of Innsbruck led by crystallographer Bernhard Rupp and the…

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Science

How corporate involvement in psychedelic research could threaten public safety

…now corporations are stepping up to fund clinical trials. Although this support may help accelerate researchers’ understanding of psychedelics, it also sparks concern as a conflict of interest. Considering how to reduce the impact of conflicts of interest on psychedelic studies could help avoid public health risks… more awareness is needed for how corporate interests…

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Biography/Memoir

Colorado Senate passes bill that could ban social media users who post positively about drugs – including legal psychedelics

The measure’s language… …“severely handicaps the emergent psychedelic ecosystem at all levels to educate the public and gives broad powers to a state apparatus to take legal action against individuals for expressing their opinion online,” says Kevin Matthews, director of the campaign in Denver that made the city the first in the U.S. to decriminalize…

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Science

…we learned from… status quo…

The culture surrounding psychedelic drugs has shifted significantly over the past few years, with voters in Colorado leading that charge… I was speaking from a place of deep love for the psychedelics field, and a conviction that we need to talk more about how the corporadelic empire has no clothes. In 2019, Denver became the first U.S.…

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Politics

Psychedelics paid for by work? It’s coming

The suite of benefits your company offers may one day look like this: vision, dental, 401(k) match and psychedelic-assisted therapy for mental health. A small but growing number of companies are already offering that last one… offering psychedelic benefits to employees is still in its infancy, but it is increasingly seen as a potential way to…

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