Indeed, in April [2024], the Yale School of Medicine published the results of the first randomised control study of psilocybin for pain relief. Although it enrolled just 10 CH [Cluster Headache] sufferers, half of those who received psilocybin as opposed to a placebo reported a reduction in attacks. Precisely how psilocybin interrupts the cycle of headaches is an open question. Brain scans suggest…
Portland advocates for psychedelic drug use are hoping to put an initiative on the city’s 2026 ballot that would protect people who use what they call non-toxic and non-addictive plant- or mushroom-based psychedelic drugs from arrest. Under the proposed initiative, non-toxic and non-addictive psychedelics would be designated police officers’ “lowest priority for enforcement,” according to the initiative…
Final participants are completing pre-dosing activities, including antidepressant medication washout where necessary. The trial is part of the largest randomized, controlled, double-blind psilocybin treatment clinical program ever conducted… COMP360 is being investigated as a potential… treatment for mental health conditions, administered with psychological support. Original Article (stocktitan):Compass Pathways announces completion of recruitment for the phase…
“We have New Mexicans who are suffering with various conditions that are really kind of end runs in some cases, major drug-resistant depression where the pharmaceutical world isn’t giving them any relief or they have major major side effects, they need another option,” said Sen. Steinborn. Modeled after programs in Oregon and Colorado, the bipartisan…
In a preprint of the paper, the authors explain how psilocybin was able to restore brain function in adult rodents after a series of mild, repetitive head injuries, designed to mimic the sort of damage that typically affects athletes, military personnel, the elderly, and victims of domestic violence. While the same benefits of psilocybin may not occur in human brains,…
With respect to psychedelics mushrooms, it would make it illegal “to transport, import, sell, offer for sale, furnish, or give away spores or mycelium capable of producing mushrooms or other material which will contain a controlled substance, including psilocybin or psilocyn, during its lifecycle.” With respect to psychedelics mushrooms, it would make it illegal “to…
That raid happened on November 11, 2024, less than eight months after Utah Gov. Spencer Cox had signed the state’s version of the federal Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA). That law likely protects Singularism’s psychedelic rituals, a federal judge ruled last month [Feb. 2025] Jensen wrote in a September 2023 letter to the Provo City Council and Mayor…
The report from Doctors for Drug Policy Reform (D4DPR) says decriminalizing use and possession of psychedelics by adults “provides a viable path to reducing mass incarceration, addressing systemic inequities, supporting public health, and lays the foundation for rational drug policy reform.” “Criminalizing the personal use and possession of psychedelics is a costly misuse of resources,”…
Interest has grown in establishing legal churches centered around the use of such substances, particularly as states like Oregon and Colorado have legalized forms of psychedelic-assisted therapy. …does not follow a rigid set of prescribed beliefs but instead encourages adherents to explore their own spiritual experiences… This court’s order underscores that religious practice does not need to conform to…
Colorado law does not allow retail sales of psilocybin, unlike cannabis, which can be sold both recreationally and medically in the state. But it allows adults 21 and older to grow, use, and share psychedelic mushrooms for personal use. Despite the retail ban, adjacent businesses have mushroomed. Inside the warehouse and laboratory of Activated Brands…
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