Medicine/Healing

The investigators have since completed Phase II of the study… [with significant differing results from phase 1]. The research, published in The Journal of Psychopharmacology, is an essential first step in demonstrating the safety and feasibility of psilocybin [in phase 1 trials]. Original Article (Scitech daily):Psychedelic drug from magic mushrooms – psilocybin – can be safely…

Sarah Runyon, the defence lawyer who won the case, said the ruling has the potential to be groundbreaking. “It’s really just forcing the court to step back and say, ‘Wait a minute, are we really just playing whack-a-mole here?’ Taking one marginalized street person, throw them into custody [then] somebody else pops up, and what problem are…

At a certain point, ignorance is willful. The psychedelic community has refused to learn critical lessons about ethics and safety… we are having these conversations at the dawn of medicalization. The problem is… bad ideas… they go back to the earliest days of psychedelic research and psychedelics as a cultural phenomenon within industrial contexts. Abuse…