While large-scale studies are lacking, Mothers of the Mushroom gathered data points concerning mothers who ingested psilocybin during pregnancy and breastfeeding… offers insight from over 400 women who have used psilocybin while pregnant or breastfeeding… …[also] in a controlled study on pregnant rats using c-psilocin, no fetal fatalities were observed. While this does not confirm…
The Department of Defense (DOD) is launching its first-ever clinical trial of MDMA-assisted therapy for active-duty service members with PTSD at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center. …funded via the Defense Appropriations Act, has a number of interesting features. Those include the use of D-amphetamine as a control, a combination of the Lykos Therapeutics model…
A deployment in Afghanistan left her with a traumatic brain injury, a shattered ankle, and a broken vertebra. Like many veterans, she obliged when VA doctors prescribed pain and sleep medication to help numb constant physical pain. But the antidepressants and sedatives she was also taking for PTSD, anxiety, and depression barely touched the gnawing…
Adam Kinzinger has never been one to toe the party line. As a former Republican congressman, he has seen his party shift over the years, growing more divided on key issues – including drug policy. “There is a group within this kind of new whatever-we-want-to-call-it Republican Party, I guess, that is very hardcore anti-drug,” Kinzinger says.…
A recent study in the Journal of Psychoactive Drugs has shed light on a less discussed aspect of psychedelic experiences: the feelings of shame and guilt that can arise during these journeys. Mathai and his colleagues found that feelings of shame or guilt during psilocybin use were indeed common. Almost 70% of participants reported experiencing either shame…
…accounts of explorers in the 17th and 18th centuries witnessing mushroom rituals and shamanism in Siberia. Before the Russians and Finns introduced them to vodka, A muscaria was not only a sacrament but the inebriant of choice for the native tribes of Siberia and Lapland, in northern Scandinavia, eaten in a soup or fermented into a brew… British scholar John Allegro in…
As of Thursday afternoon [2/20/2025], the Department of Revenue’s Natural Medicine Division had approved seven license applications for prospective business owners, including one who wants to open a psilocybin mushroom cultivation and another who hopes to operate a healing center. Additionally, the division issued one license to a local who hopes to work in the…
Tren de Aragua, Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13), Cartel de Sinaloa, Cartel de Jalisco Nueva Generación, Carteles Unidos, Cartel del Noreste, Cartel del Golfo, and La Nueva Familia Michoacana were all listed as terrorist groups in a Wednesday [2/19/2025] State Department release. “This cannot be an opportunity for the U.S. to invade our sovereignty,” Mexican President Claudia…
It’s formally called the “Amendment for the Licensing and Operation of Cannabis Cafes in Oregon.” The primary obstacle to that, she says, is Oregon’s 2016 Indoor Clean Air Act. OCCC’s amendment would make cannabis cafes exempt from the general state smoking restrictions as long as they operate with safety standards, such as extensive ventilation systems…
…night at Shrooms Cafe at 139 E. Main Street, [Ashland, Oregon] next door to O’Ryans Irish Pub… a large open room filled with music and colored lights. “We want to be an example that casual dosing is an experience that is light, fun and social. We’ve been conditioned that it’s bad, or is a drug that’s manufactured.…
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