This article looks at the potential of treating severe brain injuries with psychedelics, and its thorny ethics.
Read moreEthics and Psychedelics
Psychedelics are, by their nature, boundary-dissolving, and it is suggested that progress in the Ethics of Psychedelic Medicine is best made within a broader-ranging Psychedelic Bioethics, which encompasses not just medicine, but wider society, including the breadth of cultural containers and settings in which these compounds are used.
Read moreThe Ethics of Testimonials
This article asks a great question- is it ethically OK for psychedelic trials and retreat centers to ask patients and customers for testimonials, and if so, when and how?
Read moreMescaline
An interesting and questionable article on mescaline.
The article devotes a couple paragraphs on the tendency to vomit after drinking the Bolivian torch or San Pedro cactus. The author fails to comment that in Peru, the San Pedro cactus is used in ceremony, only under the guidance of a shaman and for spiritual purposes. It is not at all common to vomit, though it is true it does not taste good.
The reckless use of these sacred plants, that indigenous cultures have used historically, continues to be problematic.
Ethics in the Psychedelic Space
In a peer-reviewed essay published in the journal Anthropology of Consciousness, Devenot and her co-authors look forward to a culture that makes these medicines available in a safe and affordable way that respects the traditions behind them.
I could not agree more!
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