Politics

Psychedelics can treat depression: why outlawing psychedelics is the worst censorship of medicine in human history

September 11, 2017By 0 comment

stereotypical SSRI ​ Dennis argues that today’s most common antidepressant medications—selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs)—are a kind of “Band-Aid solution.” He describes how psychedelics (or, “ecodelics“) can be used as an alternative treatmentfor depression and discusses why the pharmaceutical industry may not want psychedelic medicines to become a viable option for people suffering from conditions…

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Science

Of molecules and minds: the science of ayahuasca

September 11, 2017By 0 comment

We’ve talked about serotonin receptors like they’re all mostly the same and broadly, that’s true (they’re all looking for serotonin, after all). But that doesn’t make them identical, and scientists have found enough differences to classify serotonin receptors into seven types, which are then broken down into 17 subtypes with a wide variety of functions.…

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Modern Culture

Can 9/20 become the 4/20 of magic mushrooms?

September 11, 2017By 0 comment

*Gastón Guzmán Huerta (August 26, 1932 – January 12, 2016), a Mexican mycologist and anthropologist, was an authority on the genus Psilocybe. Unlike 4/20, 9/20 events aren’t intended as gatherings for people to get high together. Instead, they’re mostly lectures, salons, or meetups that prioritize the goals of research and policy rather than the joys…

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Biography/Memoir

Employee of Cheney marijuana shop remains missing after kidnapping Sunday afternoon

September 11, 2017By 0 comment

Immediately after the kidnapping, Schoefield and others who knew Smith took to social media, asking for help from anyone who knew the beloved barber-turned-budtender from Toledo, Ohio. ​ The three suspects have not been identified by police. The man and woman who entered the store were captured by the store’s surveillance cameras, which police have…

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Science

Magic mushrooms break on through to biosynthetic reality

September 5, 2017By 0 comment

Although psilocybin has long been regarded with suspicion by law enforcement [in some regions], it has been coming clean on the biosynthetic front. Details of psilocybin’s enzymatic synthesis have been uncovered by scientists based at the University of Jena and the Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology. Starting with 4-hydroxy-L-tryptophan and using…

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Politics

Will California legalize mushrooms?

September 5, 2017By 0 comment

Saunders’ initiative seeks to exempt adults ages 21 and over from “criminal penalties and decriminalizes adult use of psilocybin,” as well as any penalties that would occur from the “possession, sale, transport and cultivation” of the drug. He believes that current changing attitudes towards legalization efforts warrant the consideration of his initiative. “What I want…

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Spirituality

Neuroscientist explains the similarities between the brains of praying nuns and psychedelic drug users

September 4, 2017By 0 comment

Newberg, the director of research at Philadelphia’s Jefferson Myrna Brind Center of Integrative Medicine [and] his research into how the brain responds to stimulus like prayer and drugs. Newberg explained one study that examined the brains of nuns who engaged in “centering prayer,” which is meant to create a feeling one oneness with God. The…

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