Biography/Memoir

Meet the people’s champion for psychedelic drugs

“It’s only in recent years that studying the positive effects of psychedelics has gained traction in mainstream media after several well-known studies emerged following a decades’ long ban of its use in labs and clinical trials since 1970.” “He’s been one of the most intelligent champions for psychedelics as medicine,” says Alex Grey, a visionary…

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Modern Culture

…the war on weed culture

*Blue: LegalOrange: Illegal but decriminalizedPink: Illegal but often unenforcedRed: IllegalGrey: No information “It is widely regarded that the opioid crisis was spurred by big pharmaceutical companies that liberally prescribed the addictive drugs like Oxycontin and Vicodin, not marijuana consumers.” A 2014 report from the John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health found that in states…

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Science

Psychedelic drugs might actually tap into a higher power

Just this month, scientists applied cutting-edge neuroimaging techniques to find out what exactly LSD does to the human brain, in hopes that research on the drug will regain credence in the scientific community that Hofmann himself proudly represented. The stigma leftover from the 1960s remains hard to shake, but LSD has slowly been undergoing a…

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Biography/Memoir

The Ibogaine Institute launches to transform

As ibogaine, the active alkaloid of iboga, enters the body, the process starts to rehabilitate an individual, ridding habits, and causes of anxiety or depression, powerfully. Already regarded as a highly successful rehabilitation center, the addition of Ibogaine treatment to the Washington-based organization has been well received. While ibogaine has been used by centers elsewhere,…

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Biography/Memoir

A psychedelics expert says magic mushrooms will be approved for depression by 2027 — here’s why

“I’m absolutely sure that, within ten years, psilocybin will be an accepted treatment for depression,” David Nutt, the director of the neuropsychopharmacology unit in the division of brain sciences at Imperial College London told me last month.” One key characteristic of depression is overly strengthened connections in brain circuits in certain regions of the brain…

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Biography/Memoir

Two lovers, two doses of MDMA

With MDMA you may go into all the nice places in the world, have a good feeling and think everything is good, and you have solved the problem, which is not true, because the solution of the problem has to be implemented later on. Have you heard MDMA being called the love drug? Yeah, but…

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