A new study published in the European Journal of Pain last month [July 2023] found that both macro and micro doses of classic psychedelics — LSD, psilocybin, DMT, mescaline — led to better pain relief compared to conventional medication in volunteers surveyed. “Participants reported that full doses seem to achieve better perceived results in pain relief than…
On a balmy… morning, a massive flush of psilocybe mushrooms popped up in a Portland, Oregon city park. This particularly gregarious bloom of Psilocybe ovoideocystidiata, or “ovoids,” stretched over a large mulched area, attracting casual pickers who filled their tote bags to the brim… Fungal evolution experts like Slot stress that many hypotheses regarding psilocybin’s…
…cultivates psilocybin-containing mushroom mycelium in microbrewer bioreactor vats, which they call “entheobrewers.” Mycelium contains all the alkaloids of the fruiting bodies (what are typically referred to as mushrooms). …focused on bioreactor creation of psychedelics… new psilocybin production process is expected by year’s end to yield a cost per gram that is less than $100… we…
The study, which represents the world’s largest longitudinal dataset on naturalistic psilocybin use to date, is published in Frontiers in Psychiatry and indicates broad therapeutic potential of a single dose of psilocybin to produce lasting improvements in mental health and wellbeing… data was collected from surveying 8,006 participants over a two year period… self-reported information on the…
How, then, might citizen scientists develop standards given the difficulty of obtaining these tools? Our discussion highlights how the pragmatic goals of knowledge production… consumed their medicine in the form of homegrown psilocybe mushrooms because they lacked access… of citizen science differ from the institutionalized scientists’ need to legitimate their findings with academic journals, peers,…
…it’s no longer illegal to grow, possess, consume or share ‘shrooms within the state… competition coordinator Jonathan Cherkoss said the idea for the Psychedelic Cup came from seeing similar ones happen around the country. Denver’s inaugural Psychedelic Cup, coming to Mile High Station, at 2027 W. Colfax Ave. on Nov. 2, 2023 aims not only to…
“A fun competition within the community to see how people’s mushrooms are stacking up against each other, potency wise. But another side to it is almost like a public safety thing,” said Eric Burden, owner of the Denver Spore Company. “I don’t really like to compare alcohol to psychedelics, but knowing, ‘OK, this is a…
The majority of American voters support policy reforms for psychedelics, the survey revealed… over half of voters (56%) polled support obtaining FDA approval for psychedelics by prescription. Almost half (49%) support removing criminal penalties for personal use and possession with support for spiritual and religious use polling at just over four out of ten (44%)……
A new study indicates that reductions in experiential avoidance play a significant role in the therapeutic effects of psilocybin-assisted therapy among depressed patients, leading to improvements in well-being and reductions in depression severity, anxiety, and suicidal ideation. The findings, published in the Journal of Affective Disorders, highlight the importance of experiential avoidance as a potential mechanism…
“Similar to cannabis edibles, if psilocybin products look like candy and/or are labeled like candy, and have no protective packaging…” says Dr. Sudakin… a medical toxicologist… “When you’re looking at toxicology you’re looking at how much you’re ingesting compared to the patient’s body size,” says Dr. Meghan Martin, a pediatric emergency medicine specialist at Johns…
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