Medicine/Healing

Can the kratom plant help fix the opioid crisis?

Christopher McCurdy, president-elect of the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists, believes that kratom has the potential to work for patients and even help solve the opioid crisis. “There’s a huge wealth of anecdotal evidence, and some scientific, that there is definite medical potential for this plant. If it’s not in the treatment of mild and…

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Is kratom safe enough for the fight against opioids?

Swogger and Walsh reviewed the combined results of 13 studies conducted between January 1960 and July 2017, using data from 28,745 individuals. “There is a clear need for more rigorous, well-controlled, prospective studies to support a sophisticated, nuanced understanding of the plant,” says Swogger. “But data across cultures indicated that kratom has a legitimate role…

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Medicine/Healing

Magic mushrooms could become legal in Oregon

Oregon could become home to the legal… use of magic mushrooms. A campaign to legalize psilocybin, informally known as magic mushrooms, is making its way to voters. “Psilocybin, after all, is an off-patent, organic agent which creates change through the psychedelic experience it provides, such that a single experience often changes a person’s disposition moving…

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