Spirituality

This is why psychedelics improve your relationship

Psychedelics are truly being studied as medicine and not a menace. The promise of psychedelics as a treatment for PTSD seems to have no ceiling, but other findings have shown that psychedelics improve relationships. Finding a partner is one of life’s most worthwhile challenges. Magic mushrooms and MDMA and LSD might be catalysts to a…

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Modern Culture

The best psychedelic blogs and publications

An educational, yet leisurely self-paced stroll through the gardens of ethnobotanical and psychedelic plant science, health, policy, and human-rights knowledge… …the Eugene Center for Ethnobotanical Studies blog will take you on EXPLORATORY EXCURSIONS INTO GAIAN DATA FORESTS. Original Article (Think Wilder):The best psychedelic blogs and publicationsArtwork Fair Use: ECfES

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Science

Inaugural kratom leadership summit showcases collaboration between scientists, advocates, community

More than 50 leading kratom vendors and advocacy groups gathered to discuss the future of kratom in America at the first Kratom Leadership Summit on Monday, April 30, 2018. Henningfield told attendees that the FDA and those fighting to ban kratom are misguided in their understanding of the plant’s effects and its purported opioid-like qualities.…

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Politics

Drugs should be legalised, regulated, and taxed

This is not about whether you think drugs are good or bad. It is an evidence based position entirely in line with the public health approach to violent crime. When law enforcement officers call for drugs to be legalised, we have to listen. So too when doctors speak up. Last month the Royal College of…

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Biography/Memoir

DEA [and FDA] OKs synthetic marijuana for pharma company that spent $500,000 to keep [the plant, marijuana] illegal

“It appears they [Insys] are trying to kill a non-pharmaceutical market for marijuana in order to line their own pockets,” a spokesman for Arizona’s marijuana legalization campaign said of Insys last year … The company [Insys] last year said that it opposed the marijuana legalization measure because “it fails to protect the safety of Arizona’s…

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Science

The prohibition of psychedelics… [hinders] the evolution of humanity

At the outset of the study, 27 professionals from various fields were given three tests which objectively measure creativity … Several days later they took the tests again. Except this time they were under the influence of 200mgs of mescaline. Their scores improved dramatically … Creativity drives societal and technological progress. Psychedelics markedly increase creativity.…

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Politics

The cure for PTSD is illegal

Twenty United States veterans commit suicide every day … To say that America is simply “failing its veterans” is an understatement. The government has played an active role in facilitating and perpetuating the mental health crisis among our veterans and the population at large.​ The DEA, however, designated MDMA a Schedule 1 narcotic in 1985,…

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Psychology

How to change your mind

No doubt it’s difficult to make a case for psychedelic drugs without sounding like a kook. One of the defining qualities of a powerful trip is the sense that mere words can’t do justice to it. …[demonstrably] the neuroscience of the drugs and their evident ability to suppress activity in a brain system known as…

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