“We want to provide students with the correct information right now and hope their mindsets will shift given the information,” said Yonatan Araia ’19, the organization’s treasurer. “Our primary goal is not to have students leaving the talks thinking psychedelics are good. It’s for students to leave with information and research indicating objectively what we…
“Investing in psychedelic medicine thus seems a no-brainer…it may be too much to expect ‘shroom bonds to catch on in the next 12 months. But after psychedelic medicine’s fraught trip to scientific rehabilitation, an alternative reality is now here…the cost of mental illness globally was as much as $2.5 trillion in 2010 and could more…
“…somewhere between This Is Your Brain on Drugs and legal marijuana, the narrative on psychedelics got flipped on its head. Instead of being a middle finger to an orderly society, as they were in the sixties, psychedelics have become this generation’s silver bullet of mental health and mindfulness.” After Timothy Leary was fired from Harvard…
“But if the concept is expanded to allow nonmedical users, then perhaps professionals who aren’t doctors but are trained in guiding someone through a trip could take up the role. “I imagine someone who has training in managing that experience, and a license, and liability insurance, and a facility,” Kleiman said.” Here’s how it would…
“Just as with gay rights, the psychedelic movement requires person-to-person advocacy. This can take the form of education, of explaining these substances from a cultural, historical, or scientific perspective. But in my opinion, the most effective way to change someone’s mind, or at least get them to reconsider their original position, isn’t through intellectual discourse;…
“It reminds me of how they sell cocaine and marijuana in Amsterdam,” one local said. “Here, it’s shamans and ayahuasca.” No one monitors the medicine men, their claims, or their credentials. With money rolling in and lodges popping up across Peru’s sprawling Amazon, a new breed of shaman has emerged – and not all of…
“For the people who have invested so much hope in… [the] UN General Assembly Special Session (UNGASS) on drugs, the official agreement it produced – the “outcome document” – represents a shocking betrayal. History will look no more kindly on them than climate change deniers today, or defenders of apartheid in the 1980s.” This UNGASS…
“It actually starts to rewire the brain chemistry,” one law enforcement official said. “They have no control over their thoughts. They can’t control their actions. It’s just a dangerous, dangerous drug.” Despite the heightened public health crisis, federal and state officials seem reluctant to do anything about the drug, which remains legal for adults 21…
“Terence Mckenna might be proud — if only he’d lived to see the day.” Demonstrators flooded the Dag Hammarskjold Plaza daily, located near a U.N. headquarters, calling for reform. These advocates have a point; given the daunting dilemmas coming to define our century. Humanity will need to consider radical new lines of thought in the…
“Understanding the different motivations for NPS use in terms of drug groups could enable more effective prevention and consequently a reduction in harm”. For example, the use of hallucinogens was substantially motivated by self-exploration and spiritual attainment and showed very low levels of addiction potential while the use of opioids and especially GABA activating substances…
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