Protecting the right to grow… psychedelic… at home is a health and economic justice issue… convenience and commerce at the expense of public health is nothing new… I saw growing my own as a way to end my reliance on this prohibition-driven headache… has made me less susceptible to the commercialization… it grounds me and…
The Ohio State University College of Social Work conducted a study where they asked 1,000 participants to report the types of high some psychedelics gave them. They experimented with the effects of LSD, psilocybin… mescaline, ayahuasca, and 5-MeO-DMT (a close relative of DMT)… the research yielded 3 distinct types of psychedelic highs. (High scoring) –…
In a new paper published in the Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal, researchers analyzed the participants’ own words and found that psychedelics combined with talk therapy often helped longtime smokers see themselves as nonsmokers. This new core identity might help explain why 80% of participants were able to stop smoking for six months and 60% remained…
…drug prohibition is clearly one of the larger drivers of systemic inequality in the psychedelic industry, including many of the perceived problems of medicalisation. When a hospital or clinic is the only place people can access relatively harmless and common drugs, the problem is not just the hospital, the practitioners, or the manufacturer of the…
…psychedelic medicines may provide a pathway for trans and gender diverse people to reconnect with themselves and increase access to gender affirmation, thus reducing the need for gender affirmation from others. …the psychedelic community suffers from a highly gendered essentialized understanding in the physical sense too, where there are often two therapists in a room…
… there is a new, tsunami-like wave of interest in the use of psychedelic[s]… as a compliment to traditional therapy, with new studies published weekly and research centers opening worldwide. This energy is picking up where research left off prior to policy changes in the 1970s, before which psychedelics had been intensively studied for the treatment of…
Ilse Wiechers, deputy executive director of VA’s Office of Mental Health and Suicide Prevention, provided insights into the department’s thinking on psychedelics… …says the agency is keeping a “very close eye” on psychedelics research and policy amid the growing reform movement, and that includes exploring issuing new guidance to ensure that veterans are protected from…
In the wake of cannabis reforms, it appears that psychedelics may be the next target in the dismantling of the war on drugs. …new policy may set a precedent that moves… one step closer to accepting psychedelics as medicinal substances, but historically these drugs were widely sought out for recreational and non-clinical purposes. And, if…
The Oregon Psilocybin Services Manager… at the Oregon Health Authority is Angela Allbee… asked what kinds of complaints she’s hearing, Albee said she couldn’t discuss specifics but that the commonest complaint to the agency is “I think my neighbor is growing magic mushrooms.” State… has issued 200-plus licenses… [out-of-state] psychedelic tourists are checking out Portland,…
…the county containing [the Oregon State capitol], Salem voted to ban psilocybin services. A shop in Portland called the Shroom House [allegedly did]… shops in Vancouver, British Columbia [are] openly selling magic mushrooms. The police aren’t getting involved and are instead targeting violent criminal organizations that produce and traffic harmful opioids, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation…
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