When pressed on why the police nor the city have moved to shut the business down – let alone make any arrests – representatives of both have expressed that they’re more concerned with addressing the opioid crisis rather than wrestling with the increasingly embraced psychedelic scene. It probably isn’t a stretch to guess that they…
In fact, it increasingly seems that pain – one of the most universal experiences in the human condition – is now the next frontier for psychedelics after mental health. “As a non-addictive alternative to opioids, psychedelics represent a revolutionary and much-needed new approach to the treatment of pain,” according to the Psychedelics and Health Research Initiative…
…mind-altering root bark of the Iboga plant is used ritualistically to promote health and happiness. Though the… visions he experienced in his first Iboga journey were terrifying at the time, he’s come a long way since venturing through some of the darkest parts of his psyche. On the other side of his temporary descent into…
DEA Administrator Anne Milgram did not respond to interview requests for this story. DEA spokesperson Katherine Pfaff wrote in a separate e-mail… that “we will respectfully decline this opportunity.” …the DEA issued a “standard knee-jerk response,” Tucker says… Thomas Prevoznik, a DEA deputy assistant administrator, wrote that the administration “has no authority to waive any…
…lawsuit over magic mushrooms could help spur the wave of liberalization the nascent industry has been pushing for. The legal challenge came about collectively through the nonprofit’s board. The lawsuit challenges… make it easier for medical patients to get access to psilocybin, arguing that current regulations violate their constitutional rights. Brought on behalf of eight…
“…if we can help people suffering from PTSD, depression, trauma, and addiction – including veterans, cancer patients, and others – supervised psilocybin therapy is a treatment worthy of further consideration,” says Oregon Governor Kate Brown. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has designated psilocybin therapy as “breakthrough therapy” for treatment-resistant depression and major depressive disorder…
A team out of Vancouver… led by Dr. Robert Hancock… University of British Columbia (UBC) microbiologist and Canada Research Chair Holder in Health and Genomics, has created a… process they expect will bring that cost under $100 a gram by the end of 2022. “It’s a game changer that allows for rapid, stable and cost-effective…
The practice of taking high doses of magic mushrooms to aid with mental wellness has been in vogue for some years now. As news of the psychedelic renaissance in mental healthcare seeped out from niche wellness blogs and into the mainstream, the question many people found themselves asking was: how do I get some? by…
A: …the current rules do limit the varieties of fungi that can be utilized in this program to, they limit it to a single variety called psilocybin cubensis and so there are over a 100 other types of psilocybin producing fungi that could have been included in the program and you mentioned the cannabis industry…
The DEA declined to comment for this story. …one of two terminally ill patients seeking access to psilocybin under Right to Try, a federal law and an array of state laws meant to grant people facing death access to experimental drugs outside of a clinical trial… the court’s decision left the issue at a “crossroads,”…
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