A leading theory on how LSD in particular affects your brain… is that it unlearns a life’s worth of learned behaviour. In other words, by opening up pathways in your brain that may have been closed for decades, it can make you reconsider or reexamine the things that have become habitual to yourself… attitudes to…
…persistent stereotypes inflate the public perception of drug use among unhoused people far beyond reality, and suggest that illicit drug use has only one trajectory: the downward spiral… there are practical reasons, too, for homeless people’s specific choices of drugs. Stimulants, for example, may help people to stay awake at night when it is most…
Bansal was as surprised as anyone. “Had somebody told me going into this that I would come out a transformed being or a person with a completely different perspective on life, I would never have believed it.” “It’s as if there is a part of me that is watching myself objectively, going through the painful…
Results showed that neuroticism declined substantially the week following the ayahuasca ceremony and remained substantially below baseline levels three months following the ceremony. “We found substantial changes in personality traits, particularly neuroticism, following ayahuasca use,” says Brandon Weiss, a psychologist at Imperial College London and the lead author of the paper. “These changes persisted over…
…patients’ call for medical access only bolsters the potion of the lawmakers making the push, regardless of whether the wider population understands the efficacy of psychedelic medicine. The same thing was seen with cannabis. Its scope of value was seen as very narrow in a medical setting at first. But the years would prove it…
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…
A growing body of research shows the drug allows parts of the brain that typically don’t talk to each other to do just that — creating new pathways for thinking, learning and behaving. Unlike ketamine, however, psilocybin has been deemed dangerous by the FDA with “no medical use.” “That really stems back to the Nixon…
This is the first study of the therapy’s potential benefit with clinicians, and the University of Washington School of Medicine is the sole trial site. Dr. Anthony Back, the trial’s lead investigator. suggested that psilocybin uniquely enables psychological exploration. “It makes your brain more plastic and your beliefs and desires less rigid. It can allow…
SECTION 2. A nurse licensed under ORS 678.040 to 678.101 may discuss the medical use of marijuana with a person with whom the nurse has a patient-provider relationship. (1) “Attending [physician] provider” means [a physician licensed under ORS chapter 677] one of the following health care providers who has primary responsibility for the care and…
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…
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