Plant-based treatments are becoming more widely recognized and eco-friendly, and plant-based addiction treatments are helping to save lives. One of the many reasons that people use alcohol or drugs is as a means of self-medicating. They are treating a trauma or an undiagnosed mental illness by altering their mind state with legal and illegal chemicals. Some…
Psychedelics microdosing can mean taking five to 20 micrograms of LSD, 0.1 – 0.3 grams of dried psilocybin-containing mushrooms. We compared people who microdose — that is, who take a psychedelic substance such as LSD (lysergic acid diethylamide) or “magic” mushrooms (psilocybin) in very small quantities — with those who don’t, and found that microdosers had healthier scores on…
The study [Neuroscientists at King’s College London and Oxford University and published in the Journal of Neuroscience] aimed to investigate the effect of MDMA on decision-making behaviour. MRI machines were used to scan the brains of the participants, finding that MDMA can help people to become more cooperative by creating greater activity in specific areas of the brain such…
“One of the implications of the continued growth of psychedelic festival culture is that the community of psychedelic users is becoming, with the help of the internet, more organised and more cohesive”. Furthermore, now this ‘spiritual movement’ has community meeting spaces, with their own rituals, traditions, codes and conventions. At these gatherings there is a very…
Oregon’s Secretary of State has just approved language for a potential ballot initiative that would legalize psychedelic mushrooms. In recent years, some studies have shown that “magic mushrooms” can have positive effects, especially those undergoing cancer treatments and… depression. If Oregonians were to approve the initiative, it would decriminalize psilocybins and allow for the licensed manufacturing and administration of the substances.Original…
There’s a growing body of evidence the drug is safe and effective to treat things like depression, anxiety, PTSD and, ironically, drug addiction. [Note : Eugene Register Guard reported on this initiative in length in March of 2018.] Oregon has a history with mushrooms. The author and Eugene… figure Ken Kesey participated in government studies of hallucinogens in…
In the study, the researchers found that MDMA made people more cooperative, but only with those who were deemed trustworthy. The study also found that taking MDMA led to increased brain activity in areas of the brain thought to be involved in social interaction and the understanding of other people’s thoughts and intentions … In other…
Finding common ground with Russia’s Soviet-era understanding of addiction—known as “narcology”—they promote abstinence, and abstinence only, from all illegal substances … Russia is about as bad as it gets. The country also has one of the highest populations of injecting drug users in the world. Once Crimea went under Russian control, the territory’s “registered drug addicts” found themselves cut off…
Mothers in the UK, US, Canada, and beyond are advocating for drug policy reform; for many, their advocacy follows the death or incarceration of their child as a result of the drug war … many mothers and other family members have come together in the fight for evidence-based, person-centred drug policy reform due to the effect…
Oregon Flower : Chimaphila menziesii Oregon Governor Kate Brown has declared addiction a public health crisis in the state. Brown… announced an executive order setting a deadline for the state Alcohol and Drug Policy Commission to develop a plan, with intermediary deadlines as early as September [2018]. The plan would lay out steps for state…
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