…in some cities like Vancouver… entrepreneurs have even opened brick-and-mortar stores, which sell psychedelics… Canada has licensed a Vancouver startup to export psychedelics to Australia for patient use, the latest milestone in a contest to supply the potential growth of medical psychedelic drugs. Seven companies have legally exported psilocybin, MDMA or both from Canada so…
As psychedelics re-enter mainstream, with psilocybin legalized for recreation in Colorado, and for therapeutic use in Oregon, millions of Americans are trying them for the first time, and some are walking away – quite by surprise – true believers. In stumbling upon the connection between mushrooms and the sacred, Brinkerhoff and Worwood are discovering a…
“To me, it’s about allowing people to seek healing using things that are available in the world,” City Councilmember Clark Gilman said. The Olympia City Council declared that entheogens/psilocybin-related investigations, arrests, and prosecutions will have the lowest level of priority from law enforcement, meaning some psychedelic drugs like mushrooms will be decriminalized within city limits.…
Lykos and its founder, Rick Doblin, have for years tried to persuade regulators and the pharmaceutical industry at large that psychedelic drugs should be used in the treatment of certain mental health conditions. “After 38 plus years of work, I’m profoundly saddened by the FDA decision around this critically needed therapy, but am heartened that…
[Friday, August 9, 2024] “…it is time for Commissioner [Robert] Califf to exercise direct oversight and order the Agency [FDA] to reassess its biased attacks on kratom and psychedelics,” Mac Haddow, senior fellow of public policy for American Kratom Association… August 12, 2024; The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has withdrawn a request for White…
The FDA declined to approve the new treatment submitted by Lykos Therapeutics, an organization that develops innovations to “transform mental healthcare,” deciding that there still isn’t enough evidence of benefit to outweigh the risks. The decision will have far-reaching ripple effects. Some psychedelic advocates will have to put celebrations they’ve been planning for decades on pause;…
A 77-year-old retired Marine Corps general has emerged as an unlikely advocate for treating veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder with the psychedelic drug ecstasy… Jack Bergman flew helicopters in Vietnam, earned three stars, and is now in his fourth term representing a northern Michigan district in the House. A Republican, he sees promise in…
The results showed that the two pharmacological interventions created significantly different hierarchical reconfigurations of whole-brain dynamics… the main hypothesis is that psychedelics can bring about a relaxation of the precision of high-level priors or ‘beliefs’ (REBUS), allowing (anarchic) bottom–up information flow, consistent with ‘anarchic’ (that is, hierarchy-free) system dynamics. This theory is consistent with our…
Question: I heard magic mushrooms have strains, just like cannabis. Is that true? Answer: There are a lot of parallels between the two… and although they all have psilocybin, they’re not all the same. These mushrooms have other tryptamines and alkaloids… specific mushrooms have shown potential in treating specific mental and physical ailments, according to…
“Due to the age of the plants, Watermasters estimate that roughly 1.5 million gallons of water was saved by stopping water use at this time,” JCSO (Jackson County Sheriff’s Office), explained. “While regulatory agencies investigate permitted cannabis operations, IMET is focusing on the black-market marijuana trade in the Rogue Valley,” the agency said. “IMET is…
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