Science

Psychedelic… research…

“I have a tremendous amount of respect for the research but it’s a completely sanitized, you know, sterilized subject pool. There’s all kinds of exclusion criteria and so it’s interesting, it gets a little bit more murky when you start to say well we’re going to study alcohol use disorder with co-morbid depression, right, so…

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Biography/Memoir

Inside the lab that’s creating enough psilocybin for everyone on Earth

“I like to say nature is always the best chemist…” says Alex Sherwood… [of] a non-profit drug manufacturer… gearing up to synthesize enough medical-grade hallucinogenic molecules to supply the world.  …what they’ve created is… replica of the compounds found in a mushroom harvested from the forest… FDA approval, and… mass production… Original Article (WPR):Inside the…

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Politics

Psychedelic decriminalization… legalization… medicalization: what’s the difference?

As our society moves deeper into the psychedelic renaissance, and civilians push governments to once and for all end the war on drugs, many different options are proposed. Psychedelic decriminalization, medicalization, a legalization are all suggested pathways that each carry their own benefits. So what’s the difference? However, for many, the different but similar-sounding terminology…

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Medicine/Healing

…patients battle to make psilocybin accessible…

DEA Administrator Anne Milgram did not respond to interview requests for this story. DEA spokesperson Katherine Pfaff wrote in a separate e-mail… that “we will respectfully decline this opportunity.” …the DEA issued a “standard knee-jerk response,” Tucker says… Thomas Prevoznik, a DEA deputy assistant administrator, wrote that the administration “has no authority to waive any…

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Biography/Memoir

Replacing prozac with…

It took 30 years for the chemical imbalance in the brain causing depression myth to be fully recognized as pseudoscience and dangerously misleading to consumers… When “effective,” [Danielle Schlosser, psychologist and senior vice president of Compass Pathways, and Thomas R. Insel, former director of the U.S. National Institute for Mental Health (NIMH) and consultant to…

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Science

Psilocybin… promise for treating alcohol addiction…

Alcohol misuse kills around 95,000 people in the U.S. every year, according to the Centers for Disease Control, shortening lives by an average 26 years. “One of the reasons is to prevent it from being grabbed by other people who might use it to get a monopoly and make it harder for people to receive this treatment,”…

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Politics

Oregon… psilocybin-fueled mushroom tourism boom?

“People are paying thousands of dollars and traveling across the world to do this, so I’m sure there’s going to be a tourist boom here,” Mehr says. Josh Lehner, an economist at the Oregon Office of Economic Analysis, says it’s hard to predict just how big this new slice of the tourism industry might get,…

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Politics

Making mushrooms…

“We do need to be vigilant,” Oregon Representative Earl Blumenauer, one of the biggest advocates for psychedelic policy reform in Congress… “Big companies are going to try and monopolize drug therapies with psilocybin and psychedelics, just like Big Pharma has attempted to patent everything in sight, and then spend more time and money being able…

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Science

Compass pathways sued for purported theft of psilocybin trade secrets

This action arises out of Compass’s misappropriation of highly confidential and sensitive, proprietary information that Terran and the University of Maryland, Baltimore (“UMB”) spent years and substantial resources to develop. Thompson kept his research confidential until he started filing patent applications “disclosing and claiming certain of his then-trade secret inventions”, in August 2019. As Terran…

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Politics

Many counties are voting to opt out… [of M109]

…you won’t be able to purchase it and take it home, Angela Allbee said… if you were to just look at the map… you’ll quickly grow concerned and confused about the future of Measure 109 in Oregon. After all, didn’t the state vote “Yes?” …clients will have an opportunity to take psilocybin in a controlled,…

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