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Mystical Experience Defines Psychedelics
With true psychedelics, the one essential bedrock factor is that they can and often do generate a mystical experience that is life...
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Psychedelics might reduce internalized shame and complex trauma symptoms in those with a history of childhood abuse
The use of psychedelic drugs is associated with lower levels of complex posttraumatic stress symptoms and internalized shame in ad...
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Another Michigan City Advances Psychedelics Decriminalization Support
Yet another Michigan city has approved a resolution on Tuesday calling for decriminalization of a wide range of psychedelics such ...
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Elon Musk Says People Should Be ‘Open To Psychedelics’ And Predicts The Next Generation Of Politicians Will Normalize The Substances
Elon Musk might have his eyes set on Mars, but he says people should also be open to exploring internally with psychedelics. The S...
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2-Minute Neuroscience: MDMA
MDMA, better known as ecstasy, molly, or one of a number of other street names, is a stimulant drug with unique prosocial effects....
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Introducing the Real Will Smith
For decades, he worked tirelessly to make himself the biggest movie star on the planet. Then he hit his "fuck-it 50s" and everythi...
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When Did Humans Start Experimenting With Alcohol and Drugs?
We're unusual animals in our enthusiasm for getting drunk and high. But when, where and why did it all start?...
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Feds Fund Study Into Whether Psilocybin Can Help People Quit Smoking Cigarettes
A top federal drug agency is funding a study into how psilocybin could help people quit smoking cigarettes—one of the latest...
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Are Magic Mushrooms Legal And Can They Treat Depression?
Some studies have shown the potential medical benefits of the mind-altering drug psilocybin. Is the use of magic mushrooms for dep...
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Psychedelics Are a Billion-Dollar Business, and No One Can Agree Who Should Control It
For-profit companies want psychedelics to be treated as medicine; others want them to just be legal. They'll have to learn to get ...
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Magic Mushrooms May Be the Biggest Advance in Treating Depression Since Prozac
Psilocybin, the active ingredient in "magic mushrooms," is now undergoing clinical trials. If all goes well, treatments could be a...
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5-MeO-DMT: The Most Powerful Psychedelic On The Planet
Unconditional love. An experience of nonexistence. Here’s what happened when I took 5-MeO-DMT at a luxurious retreat....
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California moves closer to decriminalizing psychedelic drugs
An initiative that would legalize magic mushrooms was recently approved for signature-gathering....
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Psychedelics May Treat the Post-COVID Mental Health Crisis
We need to stop treating psychedelics as illicit recreational drugs and go back to looking at them in the same way we did before t...
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Mounting research suggests benefits of psychedelics as California considers legislation
California legislators are buying into the buzz after mounting research suggests psychedelics in monitored treatments of micro-dos...
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Michigan Pushing for More Psychedelic Reform
Detroit will be the next city in Michigan to potentially decriminalize psychedelics....
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$80 Million Granted to Research Psychedelic Properties of Ingesting Toad Venom
"I believe these compounds could help millions of people around the world," said Beckley Psytech Chief Executive Cosmo Fielding Me...
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Cybin Inc. Likely To Benefit From New Research Touting Psilocybin Mental Health Treatments
The following post was written and/or published as a collaboration between Benzinga’s in-house sponsored content team and a ...
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A Renaissance for Psychedelics Could Fill a Long-Standing Treatment Gap for Psychiatric Disorders
Psilocybin and MDMA represent a first wave of therapies that help patients by changing the way they view reality...
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California Senator Explains Next Steps For Psychedelics And Broader Drug Reform After Bill Stalls
A bill to legalize the possession of psychedelics in California has been put on pause until next year, but the Senate sponsor says...
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Insight into the World of Psychedelic Therapies
Psychedelic-assisted therapies have attracted renewed attention in recent years as potentially more... Read More
New Study Shows Evidence That Low-Dose THC Could Help Treat Veteran PTSD
New research has found further evidence that cannabis, specifically THC in low... Read More
Psilocybin Mushroom Policy Review Panel: 2021 Comprehensive Report
This comprehensive report, which was prepared for the Denver City Council Finance... Read More
Aaron Rodgers won’t be the last athlete to use psychedelics for menta ...
In pro sports, the use of ayahuasca and mushrooms may not be... Read More
A New Psychedelic Organization is Merging Shamanism and Science
BMed, a new Spanish nonprofit that will focus on training psychedelic facilitators... Read More
Georgia Lawmakers Talk Next Steps For Psychedelics Research For Military Ve ...
Georgia lawmakers discussed the therapeutic potential of psychedelics like psilocybin for serious... Read More
Psychedelic Ego Death: What is the Loss of “Self”? How Can It H ...
What is ego death? We decipher the mysteries of ego dissolution and... Read More
Michigan Activists Give Up 2022 Push For Psychedelics Legalization Ballot I ...
Michigan activists announced on Wednesday that they will no longer be pursuing... Read More
Dancing With the Ancestors: Traditional Iboga Use in Bwiti Culture
The people of the Bwiti religion in west Africa’s Gabon have used... Read More
Johns Hopkins Studies Reveal Psilocybin Mushrooms’ Profound Benefits ...
In recent times, the use of magic mushrooms, specifically those containing psilocybin,... Read More
Why Do Shrooms Make You Yawn? And Why It’s Ok
Yawning is most commonly observed during the come-up phase when your digestive... Read More
Psychedelic drug treatment for depression, anxiety, and PTSD is poised to t ...
What we lose when psychedelics are medicalized. Read More
New study suggests unique brain mechanisms responsible for psilocybin-induc ...
New research shows psilocybin causes anxiety in mice through mechanisms distinct from... Read More
Bronze Age rave? Scientists find evidence Europeans used hallucinogenic dru ...
Hallucinogenic drugs may be a popular topic of discussion today, but a... Read More
The Promising Future of Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy
In the wake of the FDA's rejection of Lykos Therapeutics’ proposal for... Read More
400 years ago, visitors to this painted cave took hallucinogens
People at California's Pinwheel Cave left evidence of their altered state literally... Read More
Origin Therapeutics Applauds Incoming Decriminalization for Potential to Re ...
Vancouver, B.C. – June 14, 2022 – Origin Therapeutics Holdings Inc. (CSE:ORIG)... Read More
SXSW Announces Marijuana And Psychedelics Panel Lineup For 2023 Festival
The 2023 South by Southwest (SXSW) panel lineup has officially been released,... Read More
The Church of the Eagle and the Condor Settles with Federal Agencies, Can C ...
Here, we explore the settlement as well as the potential repercussions for... Read More
Brains of Buddhist monks scanned in meditation study
The BBC's Matt Danzico reports on a US neuroscientist who is scanning... Read More
Psilocybin: The main ingredient in ‘magic’ mushrooms
Psilocybin, like other psychedelics, is illegal in the United States, but controlled... Read More
MAPS Publishes Open Science Approach to Synthesizing MDMA
The founder of Blossom breaks apart a recent study on the process... Read More
Washington State Legislature Approves $200,000 In Psilocybin Research Fundi ...
The Washington State legislature on Thursday sent a budget bill to the... Read More
Breaking: Lykos Therapeutics Moved to Patent MDMA In Late 2022, Filing Reve ...
Starting in December 2022, Lykos Therapeutics filed a suite of MDMA-related provisional... Read More
New Group Launches Psilocybin Initiative at the UN
The new launching of this new initiative to reschedule psilocybin at the... Read More
Everything You Need to Know About Magic Mushrooms
The definitive VICE guide to what magic mushrooms are, where they came... Read More
How Ibogaine Fights Stubborn Prescription Painkiller Addictions
When he was 13 years old, Jeremy Sutton’s* mother passed away, and... Read More