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🗞️ Making Waves – A Psychedelic Update
"...how Canada, the United States (US) and the European Union (EU) are regulating such drugs and are allowing them to be used in clinical trials."
🗞️ The Future Of Psychedelics In Psychiatry: A Neurologist Explains
"Results like these have led to increased excitement about psychedelics and contributed to researchers speculating that positive clinical trial results could lead to FDA approval within a year. This is a big deal."
🗞️ Psychedelic treatments are speeding towards approval — but no one knows how they work
...most scientists do think that psychedelic drugs promote brain plasticity, enabling the dendrites and axons that form neural circuits to diversify and make new connections.
🗞️ Research on Psilocybin and Depression – A Real Solution?
Flattening the peaks in the mental landscape helps break unhealthy thought patterns, one of the main symptoms that manifest as depression.
🗞️ Psilocybin and SSRIs: A Talk with Dr. Erica Zelfand, ND (April, 2023)
“Anecdotal evidence, along with one recent clinical trial, suggests that it’s safe to combine psilocybin with SSRIs." - Psychedelic.Support
📓️ Duke Researchers Probe the Magic of Psychedelics as Medicine
“Do you need that psychedelic experience to achieve therapeutic effects? Or are you just putting a key in a biochemical lock, and it doesn’t matter if you’re conscious or not?"
📓️ Psilocybin for treatment resistant depression in patients taking a concomitant SSRI medication
"..., post-hoc analyses revealing correlations between the intensity of altered or mystical state of consciousness and therapeutic outcome suggest that the acute psychedelic experience may play an important role." --(published July, 2023)
🗞️ The VICE Guide to Microdosing Magic Mushrooms
... How to prep yourself for the process and where you can legally source shrooms
📓️ Ketamine’s effect on depression may hinge on hope
Stanford Medicine researchers found that a patient’s belief that they had received ketamine, even if they didn’t, could improve their depression
🗞️ Congress Postpones First-Ever Hearing On Psychedelics And Veterans Mental Health Care
A congressional subcommittee’s hearing on the use of psychedelic-assisted treatments for mental health disorders that was originally scheduled for Thursday has been postponed, the panel announced after another failed vote to elect a House speaker on Wednesday. It’s not yet clear when the rescheduled event will be.
🗞️ Medical or Recreational? States Debate Where Psychedelics Belong
The federal government continues to say it’s illegal to use these substances for treatment, but states like Oregon and Colorado are attempting to roll out regulated use.
🗞️ Legal Psilocybin Edibles Could Be Coming to Colorado
Magic mushroom chocolates, gummies, tea and other psilocybin edibles could be legally available in Colorado by late 2024 or early 2025, according to the state Department of Revenue's new Natural Medicine Division.
🗞 Democratic Presidential Candidate Wants Psychedelics Covered by Healthcare
(Marianne) Williamson said the United States must legalize all psychedelic-assisted therapies that have shown promise in scientific studies and ensure researchers have enough funding to carry out further psychedelic-related research.
🗞️ Are magic mushroom shops growing within grey area of the law?
“Medical waiver needs to be filled, ID has to be shown and we do take cash.”
🗞 Psychoactive drug methylone to be tested as PTSD treatment
Methylone is an entactogen, a class of drug that speeds up the body’s physical responses and produces feelings of emotional openness and empathy. Its effects have been compared with that of MDMA, but it is short-lasting and does not induce hallucinations.
🗞️ Orlando researchers are giving depressed, anxious people psychedelics
Brown is working on a randomized clinical trial testing the impact of a single dose of psilocybin.
🎥 DOSED: The Trip of a Lifetime
...the second standalone documentary in the DOSED series. It features Laurie Brooks, Dennis McKenna, Dr. Gabor Maté, Paul Stamets and more. Choose any donation option to access the film for 48 hours.
📓 Comparative acute effects of mescaline, LSD, and psilocybin
Mescaline, LSD, and psilocybin are classic serotonergic psychedelics. A valid, direct comparison of the effects of these substances is lacking... to investigate...differences at psychoactive-equivalent doses... -- American College of Neuropsychopharmacology / Published online: 25 May 2023