Biography/Memoir

The Women who brought you LSD

They didn’t run labs or spawn cults of personality… Though you wouldn’t know it from most retrospectives, many of LSD’s earliest advocates — stretching all the way back to the 1940s — were women. [For example]… On June 12 of [1943], as part of another experiment, she [Susi Ramstein… lab assistant to Albert Hofmann], became…

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Biography/Memoir

Drug made from cannabis plant gets backing from FDA staff

The treatment’s maker, U.K. company GW Pharmaceuticals Plc, provided “substantial evidence” of the drug’s effectiveness, FDA staff said in a report released Tuesday. The medication would treat seizures associated with two rare forms of epilepsy that typically affect children, according to the report.  …the medication appears to have an increased risk of liver injury… “The risk-benefit profile…

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Anthropology

Basel in the spotlight: the city that learned to love LSD

Switzerland’s relatively permissive regulations around researching LSD have helped the renewed effort to understand its medical potential. New methods, including advanced brain scanners, also give unprecedented insights into its effects. “LSD is a Baseler product,” said Matthias Liechti, a clinical pharmacologist at University Hospital Basel, who leads a research project on the effects of LSD…

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Biography/Memoir

LSD cured my eating disorder

The next day, I was conscious of my thoughts in a way I had never been before. I measured each thought against the promise to be kind to myself, and found that I had no choice but to change my thoughts in order to change my behaviors. The really amazing fact of the matter is,…

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