Psychology

It’s time to debunk prohibitionist narratives and calls for monopolies within psychedelic science

November 10, 2018By 0 comment

…exposes a blind spot in the logic of [psychedelic] medicalization. While numerous sanctioned psychedelic researchers tout their belief that psychedelics can “effect true healing,” rather than mere symptomatic treatment, their fixation on the individual as a wholly-bound entity, divorced from their environment, misses the bigger picture. While psychedelics may “effect true healing” of the individual,…

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Anthropology

Caves all the way down

November 7, 2018By 0 comment

There is not one universal psychedelic experience that people from all cultures reliably and predictably have … even with the same substance, different cultures frame psychedelic experiences in different ways, leading to different experiences​​Different cultures, then, create different psychedelic experiences, different ontological realities. But the hope of the psychedelic renaissance is that, by conducting the most…

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Medicine/Healing

This is your brain on microdoses of psilocybin

November 7, 2018By 0 comment

In describing their new study, Prochazkova and co-authors said, “Taken together, our results suggest that consuming a microdose of [psychedelic] truffles allowed participants to create more out-of-the-box alternative solutions for a problem, thus providing preliminary support for the assumption that microdosing improves divergent thinking.”​Although there’s lots of anecdotal evidence about the “mind-expanding” powers of psilocybin,…

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Medicine/Healing

Kratom missing from DEA report on drug threats

November 5, 2018By 0 comment

The Drug Enforcement Administration has released the 2018 National Drug Threat Assessment, the agency’s annual report on drug trafficking and drug abuse in the United States …  there’s not a word about kratom in the National Drug Threat Assessment. There never has been. “It is not surprising.  Kratom is not the ‘dangerous opioid’ that the FDA…

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Politics

British injustice : the courts ignore the killers while persecuting the healers

November 5, 2018By 0 comment

According to the Gosport Independent Panel, between 456 and 650 patients at Gosport Hospital near Portsmouth, UK were deliberately murdered by the National Health Service (NHS) with opioids … Gosport is expected to be the tip of the iceberg.​Nurses first reported the deaths – “an institutionalized practice of shortening lives” – as whistleblowers in 1991. Some…

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Politics

Ohio plans to ban kratom…

November 3, 2018By 0 comment

These studies demonstrate kratom’s potential medical uses. By classifying the active compounds in kratom as Schedule I substances, Ohio’s Board of Pharmacy would prevent further medical research into its benefits (similar to the obstacles the DEA has imposed on research of marijuana, a Schedule I substance).  At the time of the assessment’s release, FDA Commissioner…

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Science

What is kratom…?

November 3, 2018By 0 comment

“Importantly, as commonly used in raw plant form, it does not appear to produce the… lethal respiratory depressing effects of classical opioids.” The group included researchers and scientists from Johns Hopkins University, Columbia University and the University of Florida. “It is our collective judgment that placing kratom into Schedule I will potentially increase the number…

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Spirituality

Human writes: we have lost the war on drugs

November 2, 2018By 0 comment

The careless disregard for life, and the disrespect for the dead, are the toll of the “war on drugs”. The bloody trail left by this war questions our very humanity … A 145% rise in drug-related deaths in the decade, with 450,000 deaths in 2015 alone … more than 71,000 overdose deaths in the United States…

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