[National Institute of Drug Abuse Director] Dr. Nora Volkow’s remarks about marijuana apply with equal force to psilocybin. As research continues to reveal the promise of psilocybin… and as more U.S. jurisdictions diverge from federal law to relax and/or eliminate criminal penalties for psilocybin… Importantly… psilocybin… will move forward with or without the federal government……
…a team of scientists from China designed a new drug they say acts in a similar fashion to… psilocybin, but without leading to hallucinations. Sheng Wang, a biochemist with the Chinese Academy of Science and a senior author of the new study,” said, “The hallucination effects definitely restrict their potential use. But now, non-hallucinogenic drugs…
In the paper, the authors highlight errors they discovered in the patent granted to COMPASS Pathways… COMPASS fell victim to that problem by not distinguishing between different crystalline forms. In other words, COMPASS fell victim to the problem it claimed to solve. The Petition claims that COMPASS Pathways never reported the crystal structure for its…
Their game plan? To get psilocybin rescheduled under the United Nations 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances. …if the initiative is successful, it would put some additional pressure on many governments to act and maybe have other governments take a second look at their psilocybin legislation. Original Article (Marijuana Moment):New coalition seeks to reschedule ‘magic mushrooms’…
Assemblyman… recently introduced A.8569 in the Assembly to allow the medical use of psilocybin and create a $2 million fund to help state residents who qualify pay for the mushroom-based treatment. …proposes creating a section in the state Public Health Law titled Medical Use of Psilocybin. Patients or caregivers could receive identification cards lasting one…
…patients’ call for medical access only bolsters the potion of the lawmakers making the push, regardless of whether the wider population understands the efficacy of psychedelic medicine. The same thing was seen with cannabis. Its scope of value was seen as very narrow in a medical setting at first. But the years would prove it…
In the Netherlands, the Dutch Ministry of Health commissioned a scientific study to evaluate the risk of retail psilocybin sales, and it concluded that they posed little risk to individuals or public health. Though retail cannabis sales are available in many states, the retail sale of psychedelics does not currently exist in the United States… In contrast, in the…
The comments came at a psychedelics workshop Volkow’s agency cohosted with the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) [in Jan. 2022]. National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) Director Nora Volkow said people are going to keep using substances such as psilocybin—especially as the reform movement expands and there’s increased attention being drawn to the potential…
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……
The history of ballot measures in Oregon developed from the state’s early populist leanings. The irony then for Ballot Measure 109, which was pushed with the promise of assisting veterans and people with addiction problems, is that Oregon’s psilocybin program is on course to provide little access for people of lower-income… solutions exist that could…
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