Biography/Memoir

Compass Pathways is not “giving mushrooms to depressed patients”… it’s giving the molecule psilocybin

Mushrooms contain many different molecules. Psilocybin [ingested, converts to psilocin]… the active chemical that is responsible for much of –but not all of–the psychoactivity in magic mushrooms. However, in addition to psilocybin, magic mushrooms also comprise many other psychoactive molecules. For example, the following tryptamine molecules are present in various types of mushrooms: [3-(2-trimethylaminoethyl)-1H-indol-4-yl] dihydrogen…

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Anthropology

Psychedelics in the age after aquarius

Nick Powers, an Associate Professor of English at SUNY Old Westbury and a psychedelic drug advocate, warned that, “As Johns Hopkins research and MAPS push the legalization of psilocybin and MDMA… [they] most likely will become medicine for the elite… because I imagine the treatment may or may not be covered by health insurance, it…

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Biography/Memoir

Entheogenic Evolution podcast with Martin Ball, Ph.D.

Catch their info table at Exploring Psychedelics 2018. It’s group conversation time with James Joseph, Prism Marlow, and Vip Short of the Eugene Center for Ethnobotanial Studies discussing their collection of books on psychedelics, forming a 501(c)(3), and the state of the psychedelic movement in Oregon PODCAST LINK Original Article (Entheogenic Evolution Podomatic):Podcast ECfESArtwork Fair…

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Biography/Memoir

DEA [and FDA] OKs synthetic marijuana for pharma company that spent $500,000 to keep [the plant, marijuana] illegal

“It appears they [Insys] are trying to kill a non-pharmaceutical market for marijuana in order to line their own pockets,” a spokesman for Arizona’s marijuana legalization campaign said of Insys last year … The company [Insys] last year said that it opposed the marijuana legalization measure because “it fails to protect the safety of Arizona’s…

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Biography/Memoir

First, marijuana. Are magic mushrooms next?

In Oregon and Denver, where marijuana is legal for recreational use, activists are now pushing toward a psychedelic frontier: “magic mushrooms.” Tom Eckert, a Portland, Ore.-based therapist who leads the psilocybin decriminalization campaign with his wife, Sheri, said the proposed limitations on psilocybin use are important. “Psilocybin is generally safe, but it puts you in…

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