how the nature of capitalism and returning profits to shareholders affects the concept of set and setting; how easy it is to prescribe ketamine and the puppy mill clinics popping up everywhere; how innovators are racing to the bottom to get ahead; the designer drug epidemic likely leading us to a Prozac Nation 2.0; digital narcissism, Instagram “Shamans,” and the dangers of cults; chemists trying to take the experience out of the drug; the overuse of psychedelics creating super egos; and much more.
Read moreAn Interview with an Ethnopharmacologist
Keep reading for five questions with ethnopharmacologist Matteo Politi.
Read moreWomen and Peyote
Risks with Psychedelics
The most common forms of extended difficulty were feelings of anxiety and fear, existential struggle, social disconnection, depersonalization and derealization.
For approximately one-third of the participants, problems persisted for over a year, and for a sixth, they endured for more than three years.
It was found that a shorter duration of difficulties was predicted by knowledge of dose, drug type and lower levels of difficulty reported during the psychoactive experience, while a narrower range of difficulties was predicted by taking the drug in a guided setting.
Read moreIntensity of Psychedelic Experience
A new study suggests that dosage, age, and neuroticism may predict the intensity of a psychedelic experience, whether mystical (positive) or challenging.
Read moreThe War on Drugs and How it Damages the Environment
The criminalization of drug production and consumption is driving widespread environmental damage and impeding efforts to stop climate change, a new report from The International Coalition on Drug Policy Reform & Environmental Justice warned today, in advance of the International Drug Policy Reform Conference and less than two months before the UN Climate Change Conference in Dubai.
The report unveils how prohibitive drug policies – which drive drug cultivation into remote and incredibly fragile ecosystems to evade law enforcement detection – are undermining environmental progress and governance in the world’s tropical forest frontiers.
Read morePsychedelics for Addiction?
Grinspoon discusses recovery, addiction and whether psychedelics might have a role in addiction treatment.
Read moreHPPD: Hallucinogen-Persisting Perception Disorder
Here’s a look at HPPD, the persistence of psychedelic-like perceptual phenomena after the acute effects of a psychedelic have worn off. It may be rare, but it is a risk and not well understood.
Read morePsilocybin and Adverse Childhood Experiences
Psychedelics for OCD?
A team of researchers has analysed the experience of people with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) who have taken psychedelics, finding 30% experienced relief from their symptoms.
Read moreFalse Insights with Psychedelics
Psychedelic insights are thought to be highly valuable and therapeutic—but can they be false?
Researchers suggest this is sometimes the case.
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