[Tom] Eckert doesn’t believe that trying to incorporate psilocybin into existing medical and pharmaceutical models will work. To the contrary, he thinks it will zap the substance of what makes it so powerfully effective. Eckert is strict in clarifying that OPS is not proposing a full-fledged legalization effort. Instead, he is focused on what he…
Pollan tells me that approval is now on the horizon for the use of psychedelics in a therapeutic setting. A company in Britain has raised $US34 million ($46 million) for a large-scale trial using psilocybin for treatment-resistant depression that they plan to offer to Britain’s National Health Service. “So not just a little boutique for…
How did a small nonprofit, with $200 in its bank account just a few years prior, grow to be so influential, so quickly? It may have had the DEA to thank for its growth. AKA’s campaign quickly gained traction when the DEA proposed to schedule the drug. Ash hired lobbyists, scientists, and a legal team. AKA’s success in confronting the…
1. As of March 15th 2018, the Oregon Center for Public Policy (OCPP) reports that renters stand at the epicenter of Oregon’s housing crisis … LINK 2. According to the above report, one in three Oregon families struggle to afford housing. Housing instability, in turn, undermines the physical and mental health of families, as well as the ability of…
Jeff Sessions decided that perpetuating fraudulent prohibition of cannabis was not enough. Recently, he personally enabled production and sales of one of the most powerful and toxic synthetic cannabinoids ever invented [SYNDROS]. It was made by a ‘corporate person’ [INSYS] now under indictment for fraud and harming unwitting victims with one of the most powerful opioid toxins ever invented [SUBSYS].…
“Every agricultural crop has its highs and its lows,” she said. “No pun intended.” And because US federal law still prohibits cannabis, Oregon growers cannot legally sell outside the state’s borders … Tristan Reisfar works part-time for a company, High Desert Pure, that produces vapor cartridges and said he fields phone calls from desperate growers…
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…
So he did something bold. He applied to conduct the very first clinical trial on a psychedelic since the ban a whole generation before. He wanted to give psilocybin, a naturally occurring chemical found inside “magic” mushrooms, to “respectable” citizens who had never used it before, to see if they would have a mystical experience…
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…
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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