Science

…analog… psilocybin

…[ie] deuterated psilocybin analog has a duration of effect that is half is long as psilocybin, and a duration onset that is twice as fast. …[research pipeline seeking & developing] drugs with less variability [with goals such as] a faster onset time and better brain penetration that maintain the therapeutic properties of psilocybin and deliver…

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Politics

Psychedelics could become extractive capitalism…

As psychedelic firms skyrocket in market cap, quick cashouts are extracting billions of dollars in value – with no benefit to society… I’ve questioned the incentives of those investing in the psychedelic space… financial motivations to make a quick exit. These exits are ultimately extractive, and raise the cost of treatments, rendering them inaccessible to…

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Politics

The fight for medical use of magic mushrooms is moving to the courts

“They’ve got an option,” Hawkswell says. “Create regulations or take dying patients to court. You know, which one of those futures should we be living in?” “Minister, I also qualify for MAID [medical assistance in dying],” he wrote in one letter. “Perhaps we should weigh the two applications simultaneously? I am not quite sure how…

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Psychology

Schizophrenia in an evolutionary perspective

One that would, in varying degrees, apply to any behavioral condition – casting the debate in the form of a nature/ nurture argument trivializes it into barrenness at best, and into counterproductivity at worst… it is often said that schizophrenia occurs at a frequency of about 1 percent worldwide… …suggests that schizophrenia poses an interesting…

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