A pilot study involving 20 patients who’d previously not responded to up to 12 different antidepressants found they were significantly more likely to improve with ‘laughing gas’ treatment than those given a placebo gas. The benefits lasted several days. Now researchers have discovered that nitrous oxide also acts on glutamate, but in a slightly different…
In 1906, the feds passed the Pure Food and Drug Act. This dawn of misinformation [regarding cannabis and other entheogenic plants and fungi] during an era of prohibition included the Harry J. Anslinger propaganda war … [culminating in Nixon’s Controlled Substances Act of 1970]. In 2020, the prospect of a psychedelics dispensary; a lack of…
Part of the motivation behind the legislation was “recognizing that the decriminalization of mushrooms seems to be a next step in other places, and thinking that it might have greater success if we can make the point that in the path of decriminalization, the next step after cannabis is psilocybin mushrooms,” Representative Brian Cina said…
“Our results show that people who take psychedelics ‘in the wild’ report positive experiences very similar to those observed in controlled laboratory studies,” said lead author Matthias Forstmann. By surveying 1,242 UK and US festivalgoers over a four-year period, the researchers were able to characterise the psychological effects of the “afterglow” often documented in laboratory-based…
According to Earp and Savulescu, unhappily married couples with young kids are the best candidates for biochemical assistance because “when discord is high, divorce appears to benefit children, but when discord is low, divorce appears to harm children.” Children who are harmed by divorce, the authors note, often get “swept under the rug, usually in the…
Advertising disguised as news is hardly a new trick. [Speculators & Venture Capitalists] “with the concept of the übermensch as popularized by Nietszche…”—appear ready to cash in on vague notions of transcending humanity via drug-induced consciousness. In fact, these are precisely the types of marketing strategies we should expect to see within a nascent “psychedelic industry,”…
As psychedelics reform efforts pick up across the U.S., there’s an increasing weariness among advocates about the potential corporatization that may follow… a California-based company announced… that it had… trademarked the word “psilocybin,”… psychoactive constituent of… magic mushrooms. Reform advocates view the trademark as emblematic of a bigger issue—that someone would presume to take ownership…
Only cigarettes are deadlier than alcohol. The research shows that in 2017, alcohol proved to be even more deadly than illicit drugs, including opioids. That year there were about 70,000 drug overdose deaths — about 2,300 fewer than those involving alcohol Death certificates spanning 2017 indicate nearly 73,000 people died in the U.S because of…
“This was supposed to be a big game-changer,” said Dr. Erick Turner, a psychiatrist at Oregon Health and Science University. But the data on the drug (esketamine) was “nothing to write home about,” he added. Johnson & Johnson, which owns Janssen, submitted five studies in its application to the FDA, only two of which were…
This bill will allow FDA to regulate CBD that comes from hemp as a dietary supplement, providing a pathway forward for hemp-derived products; amends the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act to include CBD in the definition of dietary supplements. Eric Steenstra, president of the advocacy group Vote Hemp [said], “supports this important new bill…
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