Biography/Memoir

A millionaire couple is threatening to create a magic mushroom monopoly

Many of those psilocybin experts now regret having helped the couple [behind Compass Pathways] … Quartz spoke with 9 psilocybin experts who advised Goldsmith and Malievskaia, but today express concerns about the company’s motives and aims … a company that both gains regulatory approval in North America and Europe for medical use of lab-synthesized version of psilocybin and…

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Biography/Memoir

Sheriff releases videos of deputies making ‘callous comments’ about drug-addled inmate

“Look what I brought for show-and-tell today.”  … “Has he tried to eat anyone’s face yet?” …  “I wish we could show this to his girlfriend like, ‘You love this?”​ -Three Oregon deputies’ on cellphone videos while an inmate was in a padded jail cell and flailing around uncontrollably from a drug overdose. Perry [an Iraqi veteran] arrived…

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Biography/Memoir

…overdoses spike climbs to 23

Fentanyl-laced or “particularly pure,” fentanyl, or furanyl fentanyl [are the three substances apparently causing the overdoses, according to interviews conducted by the Register Guard]. [Furanyl fentanyl] was… made illegal in November 2016.  Similar to heroin and morphine, but is a hundred times more potent, produces a longer-lasting high and is more difficult to treat if a person overdoses, the…

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Biography/Memoir

…shares his story…

Bernard was finally granted parole after being sentenced to 13 years for allegedly possessing two joints of marijuana.  …this grave injustice directly from the man whose case drew national attention as an example of extremely harsh drug sentences in the United States, and how an entire family is tragically affected when a parent is sent…

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Anthropology

Do psychotropic[s] enhance, or diminish, human agency?

*then— a landscape in ancient Britain …[plants] are reliable and effective because they implement the findings of neuroscience and supplement… our humanist discourse about self-development and agency. In using… we become transhuman hybrid beings who build tools into the regulatory plant of the body. One question to ask then is: How many individuals have found,…

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