…access to mental healthcare in the United States remains within the treatment-for-sale model. This means that, without efforts to build in mechanisms for equitable access, psychedelic psychotherapy will remain out of reach for many, including marginalized populations that are already less likely to be able to afford and access effective mental healthcare. This is particularly…
It’s likely that, while you’ve been watering it, you have mumbled something to the cactus on your coffee table or the yucca tree by your window. But there are some people who claim to have actually communicated with plants—and nature at large—after taking acid or other psychedelics. Most pass these conversations off as mere hallucinations,…
Hmmm…I should add up how much big pharm is losing from just me, because I have switched to kratom. They are literally going to kill people if they outlaw this…. I’ve been using kratom for four years and it has saved my life from a lifetime of manmade drugs. I have nerve damage in my…
[Reverand Heidi] Grossman-Lepp charged that the raids violated the sect’s religious freedom. The police actions, she said, were akin to sending armed agents “into a Catholic Church to smash all the wine, destroy all the communion and arrest people for worshipping.” … [Another individual] joined the church as an affiliate congregation, put in a new…
In the letter, the US Drug Enforcement Agency asked Young and his cohort to apply for exemption status, which would allow them to provide ayahuasca, a hallucinogenic Amazonian tea, legally. It would also make Soul Quest the first homegrown psychedelic healing center in the US, permanently altering the way the government views the intersection of…
Newberg, the director of research at Philadelphia’s Jefferson Myrna Brind Center of Integrative Medicine [and] his research into how the brain responds to stimulus like prayer and drugs. Newberg explained one study that examined the brains of nuns who engaged in “centering prayer,” which is meant to create a feeling one oneness with God. The…
Federal marijuana laws have long undermined our nation’s promise of liberty and justice for all. Our nation’s arbitrary efforts to criminalize a substance that is less dangerous than alcohol or cigarettes or fast food, has not only made our country less just, but our communities less safe. Our broken marijuana [and other drug] laws have…
The current approach is both stupid and wrong, handing billions of pounds to organised crime and criminalising many young people. A change of approach is long overdue. We should follow the lead of other countries such as Portugal and Canada, who put the health of young people first instead of needlessly criminalising them.” Dark…
“Change is coming, and doctors should use their authority to lead calls for pragmatic reform informed by science and ethics. It said the ban on the production, supply, possession and use of some drugs for non-medical purposes was causing huge harm. “There is an imperative to investigate more effective alternatives to criminalisation of drug use…
They’ve brought together a few rabbis, some Catholic, Orthodox and Presbyterian priests, and a Zen Buddhist to see if doses of psilocybin might enhance their religious fervor. “Generally, people seem to be getting a deeper appreciation of their own religious heritage. The dead dogma comes alive for them in a meaningful way. They discover they…
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