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COVID-19: Some turning to psychedelic micro-dosing to cope with mental health stress, anxiety
This article was originally posted on Global News. Find it here. Jen Burke lost her full-time job as a clothing store manager because of COVID-19, but says the pandemic has been the most peaceful time in her life. “There’s so many people who were struggling and...
The Scientific Difference Between LSD and Magic Mushrooms
This article was originally posted on the Inverse. Hallucinogens are a wide group of drugs with a diverse range of capabilities. Some have been proven to alleviate ailments like PTSD and anxiety; others will definitely make you crap your pants while thinking your...
The Case for Macrodosing – Shelby Hartman for Rolling Stone
Microdosing, where people take miniscule amounts of substances to change patterns of behavior, has brought psychedelics to the mainstream. But is there more to be gained with a much higher dose? Would you care for a drop of LSD in your morning tea? A capsule...
Some doctors, therapists get Health Canada permission to use magic mushrooms
The health professionals can use psilocybin themselves to begin to develop therapies. Four months after it allowed a handful of palliative care patients to use psilocybin as a way to relieve end-of-life suffering, Health Canada has cleared the way for more than a...
Therapsil: 4 Palliative Canadians approved for end of life psilocybin therapy through section 56(1) ; First legal medical exemptions for psilocybin in Canada since 1970’s
VICTORIA, British Columbia, August 4th, 2020 Four Canadians battling incurable cancer have been approved by the Minister of Health, Patty Hajdu, to use psilocybin therapy in the treatment of their end-of-life distress. These 4 patients mark the first publicly-known...
People who ‘microdose’ LSD and magic mushrooms score higher on measures of wisdom, open-mindedness and creativity
We just ran the first ever pre-registered scientific study on the microdosing of psychedelics and found some very promising results. We compared people who microdose — that is, who take a psychedelic substance such as LSD (lysergic acid diethylamide) or “magic”...
Maybe Now’s the Time to Try Shrooms
For Marcus*, the shrooms trip that changed his life also turned him into a tree. There, in the middle of the woods, he melted into a "pattern of sacred geometry that looked like a Persian rug" — an experience that connected him to the rest of the forest, where he...
We can no longer ignore the potential of psychedelic drugs to treat depression – Robin Carhart-Harris
Robin Carhart-Harris is head of the Centre for Psychedelic Research at Imperial College London. At Imperial College we’ve been comparing psilocybin to conventional antidepressants – and the results are likely to be game-changing. The world is experiencing a...
Poll Indicates America’s Growing Acceptance Of Psilocybin Mushrooms
American’s attitudes toward marijuana have relaxed significantly in the last ten years, resulting in a wave of reform that has brought adult use legalization and medicinal cannabis to cities and states throughout the country. Could magic mushrooms have a moment? One...
Psychedelic Drugs Can Improve Quality Of Life – And Death – For Older Adults
Even before COVID-19 set off a global tsunami of anxiety and depression, psychedelic drugs were already showing exciting promise for treating these and other intractable mental health conditions. Compass Pathway’s recent raise of $80M to expand research into the...
The Miller School of Medicine is Studying CBD + Psilocybin for Treating Traumatic Brain Injury and PTSD
The Miller School of Medicine at the University of Miami (UM) has received funding to study the combination of psilocybin and cannabidiol (CBD) for treating (and possibly preventing) traumatic brain injury (TBI) and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) that often...
The growing push for medical use of psilocybin in Canada
TORONTO -- Growing evidence about the powers of psilocybin, a naturally occurring psychedelic compound produced by several species of mushrooms, being used to treat anxiety and depression has inspired advocates to file a federal court challenge next month to allow its...
Can magic mushrooms and LSD treat depression and anxiety? Scientists are optimistic.
When Marc Morgan tried lysergic acid diethylamide, better known as LSD or acid, for the first time as a teenager, he noticed that he could emotionally disconnect from traumatic memories of the sexual abuse he had suffered as a child. “It allowed me to dissociate from...
Psychedelics Help You Become Emotionally Adaptable, Study Finds
Recent studies have found that psychedelics could provide answers for multiple psychiatric disorders, with significant results in combatting treatment-resistant anxiety and depression. A systematic review of previous studies showed that administering psychedelics...
Study: Psilocybin From Magic Mushrooms Plus Therapy Delivers Benefits Nearly Five Years Later
A new study adds support to claims that the psychedelic drug psilocybin, when combined with psychotherapy, can effectively treat depression and anxiety years after taking the drug. The research follows up on a 2016 study that tested the effects of a single-dose,...
Scientists studying psychoactive drugs accidentally proved the self is an illusion
Philosophers and mystics have long contemplated the disconcerting notion that the fixed self is an illusion. Neuroscientists now think they can prove it or, at least, help us glimpse this truth with some help from psilocybin, the psychoactive property in magic...
Yale Research Confirms Lingering Mood Benefit of Psychedelics Like LSD and Magic Mushrooms
The research team found that people who recently took psychedelics such as LSD and psilocybin, more commonly known as magic mushrooms, were more likely to report having “transformative experiences” so profound that they came out of the experience radically changed....
‘Magic mushroom’ ingredient could be used to treat depression, study says
More than 264 million people worldwide are affected by depression, according to the World Health Organization. The most common pharmaceutical treatment is to take antidepressants like Prozac, which increase levels of serotonin in the brain to improve mood. But this...
AOC Says She’ll Introduce More Psychedelics Legislation In Congress
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) said she supports the national movement to decriminalize psychedelics and plans to again introduce legislation promoting research into such substances, according to an activist who spoke with her following a town hall meeting on...
Meet DoubleBlind, The New Magazine Focused On Psychedelics
The psychedelics market is growing, as more jurisdictions legalize or decriminalize different form of them. In this context, Shelby Hartman and Madison Margolin are launching DoubleBlind, a biannual print magazine and digital media company focused on psychedelics....
A step closer to legalizing magic mushrooms as FDA lets second research group use the ‘breakthrough’ drug in clinical trial to treat 80 patients with depression
FDA official designated Ursona Institute's phase 2 clinical trials using psilocybin to treat depression in 80 patients Breakthrough Therapy status Wednesday The psychoactive chemical comes from 'magic mushrooms' and has now been given 'Breakthrough Therapy'...
Motion to prevent sale of magic mushrooms defeated by Vancouver council
Vancouver city council struck down a motion Wednesday night to deter and prevent the sale of psilocybin mushrooms, a psychedelic drug also known as magic mushrooms. The motion from Coun. Melissa De Genova linked the sale of mushrooms, which are classified as an...