Psychedelics

How Should We Do Drugs Now?

ONE DAY AT A TIME – July 9, 2021 - The blunt binaries of “Just say no” that have held sway for so long have kept us from having this conversation and from appreciating how different one illicit drug is from anothe... Read More...

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California moves towards decriminalizing psychedelic drugs

WATCH – “DO YOU BELIEVE IN MAGIC - MUSHROOMS?” – June 3, 2021 - Some cities in the U.S. including Oakland and Santa Cruz, have already effectively decriminalized possession of magic mushrooms. And Oregon voters... Read More...

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The Truth About Deinstitutionalization

IT’S INSANE – May 25, 2021 - One popular explanation blames “deinstitutionalization”: the emptying of state psychiatric hospitals that began in the 1950s. When the hospitals were shut down, the story goes, pat... Read More...

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Psychedelics Are Coming and Psychiatry May Never Be the Same

THANK GOD – May 9, 2021 - It’s been a long, strange trip in the four decades since Rick Doblin, a pioneering psychedelics researcher, dropped his first hit of acid in college and decided to dedicate his life to... Read More...

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Psychedelic drug boom in mental health treatment

ONE PILL MAKES YOU HAPPIER – May 10, 2021 - Drugs long stigmatized, such as psilocybin and MDMA, are rising in profile as mental illness treatment options. Just last week, results from a phase 3 trial of MDMA c... Read More...

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Single dose eases anxiety and depression for five years

EVERYTHING OLD IS NEW AGAIN – April 23, 2021 - At the four-and-a-half year follow-up, 71 to 100 percent of participants credited improvements in levels of anxiety and depression to the single-dose psilocybin an... Read More...

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Man gets 10 years in prison for selling psychedelics

HYPOCRITICAL SOCIETY – April 24, 2021 - A man who prosecutors say ran an extensive network selling psychedelic and party drugs around the Santa Cruz area, including at UC Santa Cruz, was sentenced to a decade i... Read More...

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CA. Senators OK Bill To Legalize Possession Of Psychedelics

THEY BE TRIPPIN’! – April 6, 2021 - A bill to decriminalize psychedelics in California and create a working group to study broader reform advanced through a Senate committee on Tuesday. The panel also approved ... Read More...

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California Bill Would Decriminalize LSD and Psilocybin

TAKING A TRIP, NOT TAKING A TRIP – Feb. 19, 2021 - A 2016 study in the Journal of Psychopharmacology found that a single dose of psilocybin mushrooms “produced substantial and enduring decreases in depressed mood an... Read More...

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A Safer Psychedelic Drug to Treat Depression and Addiction

Psychedelics For Addicts? – Dec. 9, 2020 - A chemically tweaked version of the psychedelic drug ibogaine appears to relieve depression and addiction symptoms without producing hallucinations or other dangerous ... Read More...

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Overcoming addiction with the help of ayahuasca

Plant Medicine Magic? – Nov. 21, 2020 - Rory’s ayahuasca experience reflects broader research on ayahuasca and addiction. A 2010 study published in the Journal of Drug and Alcohol Dependence reported that ayah... Read More...

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Startup Developing Sublingual Psilocybin Raises $34 Million

Mushroom soup for the mind? – Oct. 22, 2020 - In two prior deals, Cybin raised $10 million from investors. In June, Cybin announced a deal to complete a reverse takeover of Canadian mining company Clarmin Expl... Read More...

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Ann Arbor, Michigan Decriminalizes Psychedelics

Groovy – October 1, 2020 - On September 21, the City Council of Ann Arbor, Michigan voted unanimously to decriminalize naturally occurring psychedelics. It becomes the fourth US city in two years to adopt such a refo... Read More...

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Company to Launch LSD-MDMA Combination Clinical Trial

Purple Haze Rave? – August 31, 2020 - As anyone who has been to Shakedown Street knows, the drug cocktail of LSD and MDMA is referred to as “candyflipping.” But for JR Rahn, the founder and co-CEO of psychedel... Read More...

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LISTEN - WAY TOO SOON! – June 27, 2020 - Written by Morrison himself, the song featured on their epic LP Waiting for the Sun and is a staple of any Doors fan’s collection. The track ranks high as one of the mos... Read More...

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California’s Mushroom Decriminalization Effort Ends

Magic Kingdom on Hold – April 22, 2020 - Decriminalize California said that it plans to keep its operations running, and file again in the next California election. Voter outreach work will resume once social d... Read More...

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Psychedelics: Can getting high improve your mental health?

Everything is Possible – January 24, 2020 - Outside the control of a lab, people began to use psychedelics for their mind-bending effects, swearing the drugs improved creativity and made them happier long past ... Read More...

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