Science

Mom opens up about alcohol addiction

GRAPH : How each substance performs regarding the average (dashed line) of overall weighted scores. Substances above the dashed line (red) do more harm than the average value. Substances below the dashed line (pale pink) do less harm than average value. The shocking reality of the role alcohol plays in people’s lives has been revealed in a…

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Psilocybin for treatment-resistant depression: fMRI-measured brain mechanisms

This study was approved by the National Research Ethics Service (NRES) committee London – West London and was conducted in accordance with the revised declaration of Helsinki (2000), the International Committee on Harmonisation Good Clinical Practice (GCP) guidelines and National Health Service (NHS) Research Governance Framework. Imperial College London sponsored the research which was conducted…

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California’s cannabis priestess arrested on felony charge

[Reverand Heidi] Grossman-Lepp charged that the raids violated the sect’s religious freedom. The police actions, she said, were akin to sending armed agents “into a Catholic Church to smash all the wine, destroy all the communion and arrest people for worshipping.” … [Another individual] joined the church as an affiliate congregation, put in a new…

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Psychology

Study: alcohol is far worse for mental health than psychedelics

“Drug experts consistently rank LSD and psilocybin mushrooms as much less harmful to the individual user and to society compared to alcohol and other controlled substances.” These words from a study by Norway’s Research Council mimic the self-reported effects of psychoactives, as well: Most users report deep or meaningful experiences while using LSD or mushrooms.…

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Anthropology

Drinking yagé to resist capitalist violence

Recently, I have been living among the Siona and have seen how they are able to resist and contest, relying on collective yagé encounters, the plans of an multinational oil company that intended to pursue oil exploration in their territories. As we shall show here, the ability to “see” and “heal” associated with yagé is…

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Biography/Memoir

Why power women are micro-dosing LSD at work

“I wrote a whole book called Bad Mother [which was published in May 2009]. If I had been micro-dosing back then, I probably would have written Remarkably Calm, Compassionate Mother.” – Ayelet Waldman (author of A Really Good Day: How Microdosing Made a Mega Difference in My Mood, My Marriage, and My Life published in…

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Science

Legal MDMA could soon be a thing

Don’t go thinking that ecstasy bought on the streets is good for you though, laboratory studies have shown that only pure MDMA has been proven sufficiently safe for human consumption when taken a limited number of times in moderate doses. ​ After extensive research, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has now confirmed it’s…

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