Politics

We’re on the cusp of another psychedelic era. But this time Washington is along for the ride

August 13, 2023By

Advocates still must overcome stigma associated with 1960s drug culture and concerns about side effects, but they’ve never enjoyed such strong support inside government… federal agencies are signaling a willingness to cooperate… If Washington assents, manufacturers are poised to deliver. In the House, Democrats including Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York and Lou Correa of California, and Republicans led by Dan…

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Politics

FDA issues first draft guidance on clinical trials with psychedelic drugs

July 13, 2023By

The purpose of the draft guidance is to advise researchers on study design and other considerations as they develop medications that contain psychedelics. Within the draft guidance, the term psychedelics refers to “classic psychedelics,” typically understood to be drugs such as psilocybin and lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) that act on the brain’s serotonin system, as…

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Biography/Memoir

So MDMA, psilocybin are medicines – now what?

February 11, 2023By

Australia is known as among the most conservative medical communities in the Western world… the approval has sent professional bodies into a flurry, caught off guard and seemingly outflanked by those outside the tent. While there are several countries such as the United States, Canada, Switzerland and Israel where psychedelics can be used outside of…

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Biography/Memoir

…administration plans for legal psychedelic therapies within two years

July 26, 2022By

…letter from the Health and Human Services Department discloses the anticipated FDA approval of MDMA and psilocybin treatments… the May [2022] correspondence, not shared publicly until now, is the clearest indication yet that top officials are preparing for the approval of psychedelic drugs – demonized for decades after former President Richard Nixon sought means to…

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Science

…open science approach to… MDMA [& psilocybin]

January 17, 2022By

Instead of holding on tightly to trade secrets… MAPS paper… read as a step-by-step production recipe, the study maps out how MDMA with a purity of 99.4% can be made from non-controlled substances… describes a process of making MDMA according to “current Good Manufacturing Processes” (cGMP), with the end product being 30.000 (167mg) individual doses……

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Medicine/Healing

FDA… approves study allowing therapists to legally use MDMA

May 18, 2021By

The United States Food and Drug Administration, in a landmark decision, just approved… …a new clinical study that allows therapists who want to conduct MDMA-assisted therapy sessions to legally consume the drug themselves.  Original Article (Microdose Buzz):FDA historically approves study allowing therapists to legally use MDMAArtwork Fair Use: Public Domain

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Anthropology

Government urged to sell… ecstasy [MDMA] in pharmacies

October 24, 2020By

In a book – with a foreword written by the former prime minister of New Zealand Helen Clark… cocaine, ecstasy and amphetamines should be “nationalised” and sold legally in government-run pharmacies to undermine global drug-related crime, a UK drugs reform charity has recommended. Only a single adult use dosage of the drugs would be available…

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Medicine/Healing

Psychedelic, [entheogenics & ethnobotanicals are] going mainstream. Will it be accessible to all?

September 21, 2020By

The politics around psychedelics are changing as well: With great effort from advocates, various measures to decriminalize possession [and cultivation] of certain entheogens have passed in Oakland, [Ann Arbor, Michigan], Santa Cruz, Calif., as well as Denver [Colorado], and similar campaigns are underway in… other cities, [such as Portland, Oregon]. Sara Reed, study coordinator of…

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Psychology

…revolution will not be psychologized : psychedelics’ potential for systemic change

July 15, 2020By

…are better attitudes enough to save us from the dual colossi of climate change and fascist strongman politics? [Afterall] when psychoanalysis, the first major school of psychotherapeutic thought, arrived on our shores in the early twentieth century, its methods were quickly brought in line with our predilection for personal solutions… they take an experience about…

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