Findings from the journal Scientific Reports suggest that psychedelic drugs can alter a person’s core beliefs about the nature of reality, consciousness, and free will. After taking psychedelics, participants’ views tended to sway from physicalism to supernatural beliefs, and these changes lasted up to six months… the extent that participants felt ‘emotional synchrony’ with other attendees predicted…
Members of the Sackler family have denied the allegations. Purdue’s bankruptcy judge has paused litigation against members of the Sackler family since 2019… If the Sacklers’ legal protection were allowed to expire, the family and Purdue would be swept up in a “a firestorm of uncoordinated litigation” [says Purdue Attorney]… Attorney Joe Rice, who represents…
After an online screening process, clients are set up with a nurse practitioner who determines dosing and takes a medical history… clients can proceed unguided after the second session, former clients said… many similar teleservices springing up, “They would say, ‘Thank you for sharing that with me.’ And that was what they said every time…
…had been selling the files for just $50, according to a search warrant and criminal charges filed in the trafficking investigation. Some government “paperwork” on a drug trafficking investigation in West Virginia was being leaked, including confidential information previously provided by the witness… Original Article (Forbes):Secret DEA files sell for just $5 on facebook – here’s how…
The average US-listed cannabis stock is down by more than a third since the start of 2021, compared with 20 per cent for the S&P 500, while the Canadian cannabis index is down roughly 50 per cent over the same period. …marijuana legislation has failed to gain support in the Senate, including the Safe and…
…there’s a long way to go before these therapies are available to everyone. For one, many of the substances, including MDMA and psilocybin, will likely not get the legal green light for another few years, though some jurisdictions are leading the way. With one in five North Americans experiencing a mental illness in any given…
Mother’s Therapy doesn’t present de Lattre’s mother’s experience as a model to emulate. Instead, the photographer feels it should be viewed as both a visual account of how people react to despair, and as a testimony to how much a mother wanted her life back. His mother has recently cut ties with her former psychiatrist to…
…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.…
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…
…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…
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