Why the VA matters: It’s the largest health system in the country and serves a population with disproportionately high rates of PTSD. The VA announced in January [2024 that it would fund research into psychedelics like MDMA, also known as ecstasy, and psilocybin as potential treatments for post-traumatic stress disorder and depression. While outside groups have…
I want to help understand how to effectively use cannabis and psilocybin as potential tools for pain management. …lethal overdoses from cannabis are almost unheard of. This is remarkable considering that nearly 50 million Americans use it each year… a group of cannabis and pain specialists published a proposed guideline for clinical practice in early 2024 to…
…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…
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,…
We walked out with $60 worth of Albino Penis Envy, bundled in a paper bag with no information on it besides Dream Wellness Weed Dispensary LLC’s rainbow logo. Washington, DC… Entheogenic Plant and Fungus Policy Act of 2020… your prowling columnist and his investigative sidekick were served by a visibly high man in a sweatshirt.…
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