Why the VA matters: It’s the largest health system in the country and serves a population with disproportionately high rates of PTSD. The VA announced in January [2024 that it would fund research into psychedelics like MDMA, also known as ecstasy, and psilocybin as potential treatments for post-traumatic stress disorder and depression. While outside groups have…
…this will… be the first time in 25 years that the FDA will review a new treatment for PTSD… The FDA is set to decide on the therapy’s fate by the middle of August [2024]… if rescheduled, then lobbying efforts will shift to individual states. Some have policies on the books that will immediately follow…
That question is now before one of the nation’s highest courts… …pitting the DEA’s law enforcement authority against state powers to regulate medicine… Washington, Washington D.C., Delaware, Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, Oregon and Pennsylvania… have weighed in directly… the state coalition filed a brief that accused the DEA of reaching far beyond its law enforcement…
MAPS PBC [Public Benefit Corporation) has rebranded to Lykos Therapeutics [a for-profit public benefit corporation (“PBC”)], (“Lykos”), the greek word for wolf. MAPS PBC spun out of its parent organization MAPS (Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies)… clinical development effort of MDMA-assisted therapy [midomafetamine capsules used in combination with psychological intervention], which includes talk therapy, and…
Comparisons are drawn between the struggle for… magic mushrooms and the fight for cannabis. Eugene Oscapella, a criminology professor and lawyer, explains that the police have limited resources and face competing priorities. “We have stock nearby for emergencies,” said owner Edgars Gorbans, “After the raid, after one hour, the store was fully stocked up and…
“In California enforcement is not something happening when it comes to psilocybin products,” the founder of psilocybin gummy brand Cubiq tells Los Angeles magazine under the pseudonym “Maria Sabina”… “There are brands moving psilocybin all over the world,” Sabina says. “…the underground market has been thriving for many years with great demand.” According to Sabina, branded psychedelic products began…
As a member of the House Veterans Affairs and Armed Services committees, Deluzio is in support of bipartisan bills to loosen the prohibitions on research and potentially pave the way for the VA to begin administering the drugs. But for now, veterans are on their own. “Just because a government agency says it’s illegal, that…
Mason Marks, the senior fellow and lead of the Project on Psychedelics Law and Regulation at Harvard Law School’s Petrie-Flom Center, told… in an interview… that psilocybin is clearly growing in popularity as various states and cities promote new laws to decriminalize and legalize the drug. “The pieces of legislation are growing, they’re being replicated…
A federal appeals court has ruled against the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) in a lawsuit over a Washington State doctor’s petition to reschedule psilocybin. The court said DEA failed to explain its reasoning when it denied the petition, and it ordered the agency to provide a more complete justification… “Given the inadequacy of the DEA’s denial…
Matt Zorn, one of the attorneys representing Dr. Sunil Aggarwal, accused DEA at oral argument of wanting “to control the practice of medicine.” The current case, filed in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, stems from Aggarwal’s response to last year’s ruling. In February 2022, the doctor filed a formal petition with…
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