…it makes sense why they target activists who are speaking out against… the absurdity of reaching, healing, and helping people through this extremely inaccessible medical care system and through the sales of pharmaceuticals – especially people that have been through complex trauma, people who are poor, people who are unhoused, people who use drugs or…
2023 is shaping up to be an especially active year for psychedelics policy changes in legislatures across the [United States]… …[according to] the findings of [an] analysis published in an American Medical Association journal [in December 2022]. That study concluded that a majority of states will legalize psychedelics by 2037, based on statistical modeling of…
SB 58; Ash Kalra… is a principal co-author… co-authored by assembly members Buffy Wicks… Evan Low… Matt Haney… Alex Lee… Isaac Bryan… Lola Smallwood-Cuevas… Senator Wiener is a leader within a larger movement to end the so-called “War on Drugs and its failed and destructive policies.” He’s also advocated for opening “safe consumption sites” for…
…the idea that any of us are neutral is a fallacy. You can’t be neutral on a moving train. Bridges, for that matter, aren’t neutral either. Bridges hold tension, receiving charge and information from all sides, not to neutralize but to ensure a balanced exchange… just because people voted “no” doesn’t mean they are prohibitionists.…
…people might use psychedelics for fun. Judging from the election returns so far, Coloradans have decided… they can live with. Colorado seems to be forging ahead. If its lead holds up, Colorado’s Proposition 122 will eliminate civil and criminal penalties for a wide range of noncommercial conduct related to consumption of five natural psychedelics: psilocybin, psilocyn, dimethyltryptamine,…
The state of Colorado was the first state in the country to legalize marijuana for personal use. Now, the state could lean further into its progressive roots and pass a statute that would categorize the psychedelic drugs dimethyltryptamine, ibogaine… psilocybin and psilocin… [etc.] as natural medicine under state law… decriminalize the transport, growth, and use…
If successful, the Colorado initiative would represent the broadest liberalization of psychedelic policy ever approved in the United States. The covered activities, which would not be subject to criminal or civil penalties, include “growing, cultivating, or processing plants or fungi capable of producing natural medicine for personal use.” Also protected: possessing, storing, using, transporting, or…
A small 2019 study in Psychopharmacology found that after taking ayahuasca, people showed better emotional regulation. That is, they were less prone to negative judgment and knee-jerk emotional reactions in response to triggering situations. When Zaharo Tsekouras drank ayahuasca at a retreat in Oregon, on the second night, she saw a grandmother figure holding a…
…the most important reason to have insurers onboard isn’t just to save society money on treating costly mental ailments – it’s to make sure the benefits are distributed to more than just affluent individuals who can afford hours long psychedelic journeys integrated by therapy. “Governments and corporations are selfish. Our job is to fight the bastards…
When controlling for confounding variables, the results revealed that lifetime psychedelic use was not associated with lifetime cancer diagnosis nor hematologic cancer diagnosis. This was true for each of the three classifications of psychedelics: tryptamine (5-MeO-DIPT, AMT, DMT), lysergamide (LSD), and phenethylamine (2C-B, mescaline, MDMA, peyote, and San Pedro). “Beginning in the late 1960s, concerns were raised by laboratory experiments that…
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