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,…
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…
“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.”…
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…
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.”…
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…
“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……
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…
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…
Magic mushrooms can help people… [yet] under the proposed Oregon law… people would still not be allowed to… even consume them at home. …popular psychedelics are not addictive in the sense that they do not create any physical dependency the way opioids, nicotine, and alcohol can and they themselves are generally not fatal when used safely…
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