When complete in 2022, the $312-million Legion Veterans Village on 135A Street will be home to Canada’s first Centre of Clinical Excellence for veterans and first responders with PTSD… Health Canada granted several Canadians coping with end-of-life anxiety exceptions last year to experience a legal trip on psilocybin. They were the first to legally consume…
[Claims] the biggest problem with needing human therapists after a psychedelic treatment is that it scales one to one with the number of people being treated [but] with the support of machine learning systems it can act as a live therapist. A treatment that combines an artificial intelligence therapist with psychedelic drugs to treat depression…
Over the past decade, nearly half a million people in the United States have died from a preventable drug overdose. At least 11 states have decriminalized drug paraphernalia for personal use. In December, D.C. joined this group. The D.C. law also expanded the kinds of paraphernalia that community organizations can distribute, allowing them to provide…
You’re studying how psilocybin may help children with autism. What is the connection between psilocybin, autism, and the microbiome? I’m predicting that in the next 10 years, you’re going to have 10 to 20 distinct autistic sub disorders. And they’re going to be treated differently. We know the dopamine system is part of the problem…
To recoup the tens-to-hundreds of millions of dollars invested in securing FDA approval and related patents, and then the expense of thereafter marketing their wares for a profit, the corporate owners of these future FDA-approved psychedelics are not acting out of principled charity or for the goodwill of all humankind. They are going to make…
…one topic has received increasing public attention. Once called a “non-starter” by some legislators, the right of [people] to cultivate (or “home grow”) a limited number… has become a real possibility. The possibility [that some legislation]… would not allow home grow is a perplexing one. Every one of the 11 states that have legalized cannabis…
Dr. Bruce Tobin… said the decision is a “huge milestone in Canadian medical history,” [and] said there was an emerging need for doctors and other healthcare workers to have legal access to psilocybin for training purposes… “Imagine what it would be like to go to a sex therapist who you know has never had sex.”…
As a former crack cocaine user, I’ve been on both ends of sharing a glass stem. I know how people experiencing stimulant dependency may be more inclined to take risks, like sharing pipes… The renovated site has stainless steel booths for people to inject, snort or orally consume their drugs. It includes a separate room, with…
The catalyst… was the section 56 class exemption which opened avenues furthering the universality of Canadian access to marijuana. But what does this have to do with the legalization of psychedelic drugs? In making this decision, the Canadian government had set a… precedent: If illicit drugs can be shown to have significant medical benefits they…
…no stranger to the psychedelic scene having collaborated with Timothy Leary, Robert Anton Wilson, Terence McKenna, Ralph Metzner, Mark Pesce, and Erik Davis. …the mental health epidemic as an externality of capitalism, and placing our trust in… cures [that generate profits at the expense of individual and natural rights]. Will [the current pandemic] be to…
