“..all psychedelic experiences are not entheogenic experiences. If “entheogen” means a sacred experience of spiritual or religious meaning, only certain experiences approached the right way with the right dosage, etc, are likely to be of that profundity. I mean, a lot of people take psychedelics and see some pretty colors and giggle or get a…
“In the ’60s, psychedelics weren’t illegal. I got to use and know them very, very well, because that’s really what I was studying and I’ve always used myself as a laboratory. I found I could titrate them and use them by controlling the blood glucose level, and in my opinion, improve performance—improve what I did.…
“Jessica Nielson, a University of California, San Francisco, neuroscientist who is leading the study, became interested in the potion after trying it herself following a difficult divorce and doubts about her career trajectory….U.S. Army veteran Asa Barrett tried antidepressant drugs and therapy to overcome depression and bouts of anger. Nothing worked. But then, like many…
“Lane County Circuit Judge Mustafa Kasubhai said during… sentencing hearing that he regretted not being able to impose a harsher sentence.” …had applied to medical school before the incident but eventually withdrew from the U of O, four classes short of obtaining his human physiology degree… “He knows that he’s not going to become a…
“Every…psychedelic researcher has a pet theory of what these compounds are really doing in one’s mind. Many of these folk theories about the effects of psychedelics involve ontologies that currently have little scientific support (such as souls, thought fields, spirit worlds, archetypes, alien conspiracies, and so on).” Although we cannot rule out explanations of this…
“Nonetheless, psychedelics – including acid – have unquestionably returned to the American mainstream. One study suggests that Google searches for LSD nearly doubled between 2012 and 2014, and the amount of activity around the world – including the organization of a worldwide psychedelic community – suggests an almost undeniable psychedelic uptick.” The growing acceptance has…
“…a bold plan not only for licensed trip sitters and shamans, but goes so far as to imagine tax collection from the sale of mushrooms and MDMA, sold in plain packaging.” Anyone who’s ever been walked back from an acid-induced existential cliff can appreciate the benefit of someone who knows what to do when you’re…
“We stood together for what we believe and, no matter the odds or consequences, we will continue to plant ourselves like a tree beside the river of truth.” I am happy to be part of such a small community that is still willing to fight for their freedoms. A group of people who took it…
“On the death of a Eugene youth at a local addiction treatment center and in the defense of ethnobotanical plants such as Iboga, Kratom, and others. When the science is ignored, the people continue to suffer.” Whenever a loved one is lost due to allegations of medical malpractice, pangs of anguish emerge. How can those we trust to care for…
“It was kratom, Ash said, that allowed her to escape the opioid epidemic. She ended up in rehab in 2011, and was weaned off her pain pills with Suboxone, a medication that itself contains opioids and can be addictive… [Another Mom] wrote… I need it so I’m not hurting, so I can be a good…
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