Biography/Memoir

[Psychedelic] patents may limit access

Given promising clinical-trial results, many stakeholders are attempting to patent psychedelic compounds and methods of producing and administering them… the sudden interest in patenting psychedelics has prompted criticism from stakeholders, including patient advocates, scientists, journalists, lawyers and Indigenous communities… Weak psychedelic patents could potentially be invalidated in court, but that does not make them harmless,…

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Biography/Memoir

The magical world of psychedelics… [&] quick overview of the state of… armed patents…

As psilocybin was isolated from the Psilocybe mexicana mushroom in 1957 and is a known compound, it lacks novelty… for being patentable, an invention must be “new” and “inventive”. Since most common psychedelics are known for many years, it is not possible to patent these existing substances (i.e. lack of novelty). The interest in psychedelics…

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Biography/Memoir

…psychedelic drugs found in nature… private property

“The rule is if something already belongs to the public, you can’t take it away from them,” Gretchen Temeles, special counsel at the Philadelphia law firm… said in an interview. But Compass has also highlighted the threat from nonprofits like the Usona Institute, which does its own research on psychedelics. The IPO filing warned that…

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Biography/Memoir

Patents for psychedelics…

…nearly every day, another psychedelics company announces its work in securing patents for the intellectual property represented by the product they developed… a quick search of the USPTO site shows that there are currently hundreds of patents related to LSD and Psilocybin products and formulations. Psilocybin (U.S. Patent No. 3,183,172, “Obtaining Psilocybin and Psilocin from…

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Anthropology

Where magic mushrooms are decriminalized in the U.S.

At the federal level, it is still illegal to cultivate or possess magic mushrooms because they contain the Schedule I substances psilocin and psilocybin, so it is not technically accurate to say that they have been fully decriminalized anywhere in the country… …several U.S. cities and states have taken steps towards effective decriminalization, loosening the…

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Psychology

LSD vs. psilocybin microdosing for mental health and workplace productivity

[Case reports]: LSD… was better for more puzzle-like creativity – for solo pondering over a question or engaging in a writing task…. …[psilocybin] reminded me of what psychologists call the fundamental attribution error, or the tendency to attribute someone else’s poor performance to inherent defects in their personality but blame our own slip-ups on someone else.…

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Biography/Memoir

What [happened on]… 550 doses of LSD?

The story of CB, a 49-year-old woman, and her roommate, who witnessed the event. CB had contracted Lyme disease in her early 20s, and by the LSD event, she experienced significant pain in her feet and ankles, routinely taking morphine for a decade… CB snorted… pure LSD – 550 times the normal recreational dosage of…

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Science

More evidence of the chemical compound variability in magic mushrooms

…the variability of compounds in magic mushrooms… environmental variables such as light and the type of growing medium influence the presence and amount of certain compounds… in the mushroom fruiting bodies… …isolated and tested for multiple compounds of interest in the mushroom including the tryptamine alkaloids: baeocystin, norbaeocystin, norpsilocin, aeruginascin, 4-HO-TMT, 4-hydroxytryptamine. The beta-carbolines: harmine, harmane, norharmane, harmol. Original Article (Psychedelic Science…

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