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…
“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.…
Between 2011-2050, the cumulative global economic output loss associated with mental health disorders is projected to be $16.3 trillion, making the economic output loss comparable to the entire GDP of the United States. Q : What is your biggest pet peeve about the health industry and why? A : My biggest pet peeve about the…
This study is particularly interesting in that it investigates the role of the human brain’s default-mode network in mental time travel. As it turns out, those of us with an active DMN are more likely to reflect on the past and hence wax romantic about what is not present, a reliable marker of depressed states.…
Mendel Kaelen, a PhD student in neuroscience at Imperial College, has led several studies investigating the combined influence of music and psychedelic drugs in human trials. One of the challenges? Choosing the music. Kaelen was involved in a groundbreaking trial that used fMRI and MEG scans to image the brain on LSD for the first…
Steve Jobs and Bill Gates both experiment[ed] with [LSD]. Kerry Mullis, who won a Nobel prize in chemistry for his development in the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) (turning a single segment of DNA into millions of identical copies), said that the large amount of LSD he took in the 1960’s and 1970’s was “much more…
“The billionaires I know, almost without exception, use hallucinogens on a regular basis. They’re trying to be very disruptive and look at the problems in the world … and ask completely new questions,” -Tim Ferris It has been revealed that many of the inventors and billionaires in the Valley have been using the drug known…
Even if they get the right substance, White says, students might not use it safely because of a lack of education. So instead, he advocates working with law enforcement, school administrators and medical professionals to teach students about the real risks and safest methods, a process called “harm reduction.” They’ve faced some opposition from college…
Feilding’s study, to be run through the Beckley/Imperial Research Programme, is designed to have 20 participants take a dose of LSD at 10, 20, and 50 micrograms (a typical recreational dose is 100 micrograms) and also a placebo. Microdosing is the phenomenon of taking small, controlled doses of psychedelic drugs — usually just 1/20 to…
When it comes to depression, however, the results have been extremely positive. “What people report is that sometimes from the first or second cycle, a lot of their depression lifts; they’re more functional, they take care of themselves better, and it’s quite remarkable.” This is all the more impressive when one considers that most of…
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