A Colorado biosciences company is hoping that one day patients with anxiety will be able to get a prescription from their doctor to microdose psychedelic mushrooms, pick it up at the local pharmacy and have it covered by insurance. Joel Stanley is the CEO of Ajna BioSciences in Littleton, Colorado. He says the company received…
…researchers at the University of Chicago have discovered that low doses of lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD), a psychedelic drug, may have potential antidepressant effects in individuals showing mild to moderate depressive symptoms… the findings have been published in the journal Neuropsychopharmacology. “There has been a great deal of public interest in ‘microdosing,’ or the idea…
“AlphaFold is an absolute revolution. If we have a good structure, we should be able to use it for drug design,” says Jens Carlsson, a computational chemist at the University of Uppsala in Sweden. Efforts to apply AlphaFold to finding new drugs have been met with considerable skepticism, says Brian Shoichet, a pharmaceutical chemist at…
“It’s a massive problem,” said Patrick Finan, the Harold Carron Professor of Anesthesiology in the School of Medicine and the co-principal investigator for the trial. “Chronic lower back pain is growing in prevalence, particularly as people age and medicine improves to keep people active longer.” Finan said there is encouraging research now that psilocybin may…
First, it was cannabis. Now, it’s magic mushrooms. When the couple decided they wanted to teach a class, they put together a kit with everything growers need to cultivate the mushrooms at home. The kit, ideal for Colorado’s dry climate and high elevation, includes all the necessary supplies, detailed instructions and a microdosing guide. The…
History has shown that developing enriched natural product elixirs or purified active agents, as with cocaine from the coca shrub and morphine from the opium poppy, can be both a blessing and a curse. Concentrated kratom extracts are analogous to these historical examples. Though the extracts may provide benefits to some, they may also result…
An initiative that sought to ask voters to decriminalize so-called magic mushrooms and products containing psilocybin failed to qualify for the 2024 ballot when it missed last week’s deadline to submit signatures. That followed Gov. Gavin Newsom’s veto last year [2023] of a bill that would have decriminalized a short list of natural psychedelics, including “magic mushrooms.”…
Steve Urquhart, a former Republican state representative who started The Divine Assembly church with his wife, Sara, unpack[ed] a psilocybin, or magic mushroom, grow kit in Salt Lake City on Wednesday, Jan. 10, 2024. Urquhart’s church uses psilocybin as sacrament and is selling kits so others can grow their own sacrament. The federal Drug Enforcement…
Researchers at Dalhousie University in Canada carried out a comprehensive review of the scientific literature, publishing their findings about marijuana as a preventive therapeutic in the Journal of Clinical Medicine… The study found that “cannabinoids have been shown to prevent viral entry, mitigate oxidative stress, and alleviate the associated cytokine storm” of early COVID-19 infections.…
…a bill was reintroduced in the state Senate… that sets up a legal framework for the manufacture and sale of products containing psilocybin – the chemical in magic mushrooms that produces a hallucinogenic effect. The bill would decriminalize the use of psilocybin by anyone over 21 and expunge past and pending offenses involving the drug. Although…
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