#psilocybin

Spontaneous and deliberate creative cognition during and after psilocybin exposure

April 24, 2021By admin

Following a double-blind, placebo-controlled, parallel-group design, we demonstrated that psilocybin (0.17 mg/kg) induced a time- and construct-related differentiation of effects on creative thinking. Although usually opposing neural processes, the DMN and FPN have been found to interact during creative cognition, suggesting a dynamic shift between these networks facilitates the shift between idea generation and evaluation across…

Science

Psilocybin produces an immunology-related genetic response in the prefrontal cortex of pig brains

April 2, 2021By admin

In the study [University of Copenhagen]… examined brain tissue from pigs, the researchers first conducted tests to establish the proper dose to produce psychoactive effects in the animals. Pigs were used because their brains are anatomically similar the brains of humans. Immune-related genes constituted the largest group of genes impacted one week after psilocybin administration,…

Medicine/Healing

Psilocybin may be the answer to autism…

March 6, 2021By admin

You’re studying how psilocybin may help children with autism. What is the connection between psilocybin, autism, and the microbiome? I’m predicting that in the next 10 years, you’re going to have 10 to 20 distinct autistic sub disorders. And they’re going to be treated differently. We know the dopamine system is part of the problem…

Biography/Memoir

Can a company patent the basic components of psychedelic therapy?

February 10, 2021By admin

“Psilocybin is in the public domain, which is why no one can go out and claim psilocybin,” she said. “We own it. So whatever anyone files on, it’s got to be beyond that. It’s got to stay out of the public domain, and that’s the kind of scrutiny a patent examiner will give these claims.”…

Politics

…forward with [Oregon measures 109 & 110]…

December 8, 2020By admin

The Governor’s Budget invests $112.6 million to implement Measure 110 which decriminalizes possession of drugs and invests $5.6 million to begin implementing Measure 109, which legalized psilocybin for medicinal use as a potential treatment for behavioral health disorders… The budget recognizes the enormous need for behavioral health services and includes significant funding for substance use…

Medicine/Healing

…Canadian healthcare professionals approved by Ottawa to use psilocybin for training purposes

December 8, 2020By admin

Dr. Bruce Tobin… said the decision is a “huge milestone in Canadian medical history,” [and] said there was an emerging need for doctors and other healthcare workers to have legal access to psilocybin for training purposes… “Imagine what it would be like to go to a sex therapist who you know has never had sex.”…

Politics

New Jersey bill to lessen jail time for ‘magic’ mushrooms moves forward

December 8, 2020By admin

It does not decriminalize psilocybin, but makes possession of up to one ounce a disorderly persons offense rather than a third degree crime. That would drop penalties to a maximum of a $1,000 fine and six months in jail. Currently, those convicted can face between three and five years in prison. New Jersey is not…

Biography/Memoir

…psychedelic investor

November 19, 2020By admin

“People say that dying is natural, but it’s really things going wrong in your body,” [Christian Angermayer] says. “Science is just beginning to better understand the reasons for ageing and dying, and a disease that we understand will eventually be cured.” “We are not coming after the hippies growing this organically at home,” he says……

Politics

Bill to decriminalize marijuana in N.J. passes in committee – and is amended to include hallucinogenic mushrooms

November 13, 2020By admin

The amendment would make the possession of up to an ounce of psilocybin a disorderly persons offense. It is currently a third-degree felony. A key committee in the New Jersey Senate… unanimously approved a bill to remove criminal penalties for possession of up to six ounces of marijuana [and] added an amendment to the bill…

Politics

Oregon voters approve initiative… psilocybin… therapy

November 5, 2020By admin

There aren’t any limitations on the types of conditions that would make a patient eligible for the treatment. Currently, there are no such policies in place anywhere else in the U.S., though the victory for reformers does come amid a growing national movement to decriminalize a wide range of entheogenic substances, including ayahuasca and ibogaine. Oakland, Santa…

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