A Seattle doctor lost his legal bid to use psilocybin, the active ingredient in magic mushrooms, to treat terminally ill cancer patients under a… ruling by the country’s largest federal appeals court. The US Drug Enforcement Administration acted within its authority in barring Sunil Aggarwal from prescribing the psychedelic, a three-judge panel for the US…
Tara Austin… an expert in behavioural science and a self-described “psychedelic utopian”… calls psychedelics a frontier in “the new civil rights movement” for what many call “cognitive liberty”, or the right to explore and perturb inner space as much as our exterior lives. They might seem eccentric, but in many ways it is Paul Stamets…
The B.C. government says more than $100,000 seized in police raids of Vancouver mushroom dispensaries should be forfeited as the proceeds of crime. …activist Dana Larsen, who is named as a defendant in the civil forfeiture lawsuit, said he will fight to get the cash returned… Larsen said his lawyer suggested they have a good…
Trump… signed a full pardon for Ross Ulbricht, the founder of… online marketplace Silk Road… He was convicted in 2015 on seven counts related to the site, including distributing narcotics on the Internet… Original Article (The Hill):Trump pardons Silk Road founder Ross UlbrichtArtwork Fair Use: Public Domain
Sarah Gersten, executive director and general counsel at [LPP] Last Prisoner Project, said… “historic decision offers hope – not just for those freed today, but for all the individuals still incarcerated for cannabis and their families that have been impacted by the War on Drugs. President Biden’s actions remind us that meaningful change is possible when…
…for Lykos, the final rejection mailed on December 19, 2024 is not necessarily the end of the road for its IP pursuits. The company has until the March 19, 2025 deadline (which can be extended for a fee until June 19, 2025) to decide its next steps… As Lykos respresentative said, “This most recent USPTO…
A House bill that would create a psilocybin exception for the state’s drug classifications passed its first reading today. The measure would only go into effect if the FDA approves synthetic psilocybin. The trigger bill, officially titled FDA-approved Crystalline Polymorph Psilocybin Use, was voted to move to a committee hearing 12-1. However, no one’s quite sure how far…
…with 27 licensed centers within the state offering treatment. New rules in effect this year are changing the way they operate… collection of client data by service centers. …The 303 Client Data Form is now given out as a part of preliminary paperwork for a session, asking a client their race, ethnicity, language, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity and…
Kennedy said his mind was open “to the idea of psychedelics for treatment… people ought to have the freedom and the liberty to experiment with these hallucinogens to overcome debilitating disorders.” An evangelist [Dr. Shereef Elnahal] for treating mental health disorders with psychedelic drugs whom President Joe Biden appointed to a top job at the VA wants…
An Elon Musk ally is seeking to seize control of psychedelic drugmaker Lykos Therapeutics, offering it a financial lifeline for its bid to garner US approval to use the party drug ecstasy as a mental health treatment. Antonio Gracias, an early Tesla backer and former board member who backed Musk’s takeover of Twitter, made a…
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