A therapist’s own, personal experience with psychedelic substances appears to play an important role in facilitating therapeutic benefits for patients… “Crucially, the psychedelic experience is impossible to describe, and the ability to support people in these very profound states of altered consciousness may depend in part on the therapist’s own experience in that environment.” By…
…lawyer pushed against extending protections for members of the family, which is worth billions: Joe Rice, a lead lawyer for local governments who had sued Purdue… Judge Robert Drain said that if a deal was not in place by [Feb. 17, 2022], “all bets are open” as to whether he would protect the family again.…
…there were 60 percent fewer total drug arrests in state over the 10 months after February 1, 2021, compared with the same period the previous year. 16,000 Oregon residents have already accessed services… the largest portion – over 59 percent – have received harm reduction services, like sterile syringes, naloxone and associated training, or safe…
The lawsuit was filed against the DEA by three Seattle-based patients… The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has dismissed a lawsuit by cancer patients seeking to use psilocybin to treat end-of-life depression and anxiety… the plaintiffs argue that DEA’s position leaves no path forward for accessing psilocybin as an end-of-life treatment. Original Article (Ganjapreneur):Federal…
Given the strikingly similar DMT entities reported by unconnected people from around the world, scientists are now attempting to understand more about the nature of these psychedelic characters… …a study… of the 2,561 DMT users surveyed by the Johns Hopkins team, 65 percent said their encounter filled them with “joy”, while 63 percent experienced a…
…doses were made by the participants using dried [sclerotia galindoi] truffles… …did not find an effect of [sclerotia galindoi truffles] microdosing on interoceptive awareness, nor on emotion processing or symptoms of anxiety and depression… Original Article (New Atlas & Journal of Psychopharmacology): Psilocybin microdosing does not affect emotion-related symptoms and processing: A preregistered field and…
“From our perspective, it’s really hard to see any real reason – other than individual and corporate greed – to be against home cultivation at this point,” Erik Altieri, executive director of NORML… “There’s not a lot of rational concerns when it comes to allowing a limited amount of plants for an individual to grow at…
…repeatedly microdosed… zebrafish with LSD.… …using behavioural neuroscience tests to quantify locomotion, boldness and anxiety-like behaviour… we [also] found that zebrafish acutely dosed with the terpene limonene (found in citrus fruit peels and cannabis) and myrcene (found in cannabis and hops), showed a significant reduction in anxiety-like behaviour… [with terpene limonene & myrcene] no negative…
Be it Enacted by the People of the State of Colorado: SECTION 1: In Colorado Revised Statutes, 18-18-418 add subsections (7) and (8) as follows:18-18-418. (7) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the following conduct is not a violation of State Law or the Laws of any locality within the State and no conduct permitted…
On December 15 [2021], Freedom to Operate filed their post-grant review on a patent filed by COMPASS on what the company claims are proprietary, lab-made formulations of psilocybin. A week later, on December 22 [2021], FTO filed a second post-grant review of a second COMPASS patent. Once I saw the patent info, I sent it…
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