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By Lex Pelger A review of The Nature of Drugs: History, Pharmacology, and Social Impact (Synergetic Press, 2021), a collection ...
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By Court Wing Leading psychedelic researcher, Robin Carhart-Harris, speaks with a participant in a psilocybin for depression trial on the ...
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By Rebecca Martinez The psychedelic space has an abuse problem, but how do we resolve it? Community accountability and transformative ...
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By Amanda J. Khan, PhD What is "moral injury" and how might psychedelics help? Moral injury refers to the biopsychosocial-spiritual ...
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By JL A former NAVY SEAL struggling with PTS and TBI is granted ibogaine and 5-MeO treatment in Mexico by ...
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By Rebecca Martinez Defining sacred reciprocity, exploring the historical use of psychedelics, and establishing ways to give back to the ...
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By Rebecca Martinez Taking a deep look at what Measure 110 did and didn’t do in Oregon, and speaking with ...
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By Jasmine Virdi There is a growing community of neurodivergent and autistic folks using psychedelics, but how does it help ...
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By Mike Alexander Rick Doblin and Bia Labate debated Jeffery Lieberman and Keven Sabet on whether or not psychedelics should ...
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By Court Wing Taking a deep look at the trial’s Supplementary Appendix, the response from the psychedelic science community, and ...
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By Rebecca Martinez A safe and sensitive way to speak with your children about psychedelics, explained. We are living through ...
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By Colin Pugh Paradigm-shifting tools don't fit into paradigmatically static ways of doing things Psychedelics. Maybe you’ve heard. They’re having ...
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By Robin Divine Many in the Black community are weary of psychedelic therapy because of stigma rooted in the racist ...
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By Joe Moore & Kyle Buller An open letter to the Psychedelics Today audience Dear Psychedelic Community, We know this ...
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By Simon Yugler Understanding what Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy is, and how it could compliment psychedelic-assisted therapy and integration ...
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By Rebecca Martinez Nine women of color who are working hard to ensure their communities have access and representation in ...
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By Simon Yugler Is psychedelic capitalism a myth? The week I am writing this, author and psychedelic philanthropist Tim Ferriss ...
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By Sean Lawlor Could taking and integrating ketamine in groups make psychedelic therapy more accessible? As psychedelic-assisted therapy continues marching ...
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By Michelle Janikian From virtual psychedelic integration circles to conferences, book clubs, and classes, we’ve rounded up the best of ...
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Science has demonstrated that psychedelic compounds “can occasion mystical-type  experiences having substantial and sustained personal meaning and spiritual significance.” Scientific surveys ...
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By Gary Michael Smith Esq. Our regular contributor on legal matters explains how the nascent psychedelic pharmaceutical industry and grassroots ...
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By Jeff Kronenfeld Could 18-MC, a synthetic derivative of Ibogaine, make treatment safer without the psychedelic trip? With COVID-19 still ...
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Can psychedelics heal humanity’s global mental health crisis? If so, when will it be legal and accessible to all? Mental ...
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We are hosting a panel discussion about the film Light Years. We will be joined by the filmmakers to have ...
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By Michelle Janikian The story of the Harvard psychiatrist who wanted to believe – and ended up introducing the entire ...
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By Gary Michael Smith Esq. Wittingly or not, pharmaceutical companies are clearing the path to the next populist revolution in ...
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By Michelle Anne Hobart, MA, SEC, AMFT If we do not face the issue of medicine guide abuse with as ...
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By Thomas Buonomo In February 2020, Israel treated its first PTSD patients in Phase 3 trials with MDMA-assisted psychotherapy. The ...
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By Denis Dubouchet and Rosine Fiévet Working in psychotherapy with substances such as LSD, MDMA, and psilocybin in order to ...
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By Sean Lawlor The 2020 U.S. election has brought several significant wins for proponents of drug policy. Presidential and pandemic ...
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By Jasmine Virdi For decades, the subject of children and psychedelics has been one of great contention. The mere thought ...
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By Allan Badiner Claudio Naranjo was a Chilean-born shaman of Moorish, Spanish, and Jewish descent. He was also a psychotherapist, ...
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By Sean Lawlor The role of therapy in psychedelic therapy has been underexplored in mainstream articles that focus more on ...
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By Jasmine Virdi Peyote (Lophophora williamsii) is a small, spineless cactus endemic to North America, growing in the vast desert ...
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By Michelle Janikian Like many teens in the mid-2000s, I took a bong rip of Salvia divinorum extract in a ...
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By Sean Lawlor Now that millions of dollars are being invested in psychedelics and platforms ranging from Fox News to ...
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By Pierre Bouchard, LPC As a professional DJ and full-time psychotherapist offering ketamine-assisted psychotherapy sessions, I love selecting music for ...
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By Jeff Kronenfeld Mental health has become one of the central themes of 2020 thanks to COVID-19 and the resulting ...
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By Jasmine Virdi As the use of ayahuasca becomes increasingly widespread, the Amazonian vine has extended its roots beyond the ...
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Psychedelics Today stands in solidarity. As a media company at the forefront of many tough psychedelic conversations, we are looking ...
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By Jerry B. Brown and Julie M. Brown "There is something about the core of this experience that opens people ...
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By Jasmine Virdi Undoubtedly, psychedelics are valuable tools for self-understanding, transformation, and healing, enabling us to peer into our inner ...
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By Debbie Kadagian, LCSW, HHC Throughout my twenties, I spent a lot of time wondering what the meaning of my ...
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When we think of psychedelics, we don’t often think of cannabis. But in an era when people are turning to ...
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Is there more to this issue than the community would make us think? By Michelle JanikianFor decades the consensus of ...
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Some interesting developments today in the world of Holotropic Breathwork & Dr. Stanislav Grof. Stan and his wife Brigitte issued ...
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By Joe Moore In 2014 I became aware of a gentleman named Kilindi Iyi in Detroit, Michigan. He was doing ...
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By Michelle Janikian The recovery community is huge and diverse, but the thing most members of AA and NA subscribe ...
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By Michelle Janikian More people than ever are curious to try psychedelics for mental health and personal growth. But even ...
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By Jonathan Dinsmore Since the lifting of the irrational 30-year ban on psychedelic research around the turn of the millennium, ...
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By Sean Lawlor Dr. Carl Hart is neuropsychopharmacologist and Chair of Columbia University’s Department of Psychology. His research, which focuses ...
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by Jasmine Virdi Modern neuroscience has demonstrated that psychedelics such as LSD, psilocybin, the active ingredient in magic mushrooms, as ...
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By Jeff Kronenfeld Sonoran Desert toads emerge from earthly tombs every year after the late summer monsoons roll in, which ...
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By Zoe Moynihan The psychedelic revolution is upon us. After receiving an FDA “Breakthrough Therapy” designation for psilocybin (a hallucinogenic ...
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By Michelle Janikian Psilocybin for depression is becoming a major avenue of clinical research. The Usona Institute out of Madison, ...
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This is the fourth and final blog of a podcast recorded in John Cobb's apartment in Claremont, California. This was ...
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This is part three in a four-part series recorded in John Cobb's apartment in Claremont, California. This was recorded during ...
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This is part two in a four-part series recorded in John Cobb's apartment in Claremont, California. This was recorded during ...
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This is part one in a four-part series. Kyle, Joe and Johanna Hilla were able to spend time recording with ...
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By Michelle Janikian In the heart of Manhattan’s busy Greenwich Village, the Horizon’s Conference: Perspectives on Psychedelics, graced the Cooper ...
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By Jason Schwab After years of seeking refuge at the bottom of a bottle, Karen Shaw’s experimentation with psilocybin yielded ...
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By Patrick Smith Extinction Rebellion has become the most well-known climate justice movement in history. With over 100,000 members and ...
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Psychedelics Today is sharing this research project from Naropa in hopes that some with adequate experience may contribute! Below is ...
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By Xavier Francuski Ayahuasca is a psychoactive tea traditionally used by indigenous communities of the Amazon rainforest for its powerful ...
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By John Chavez Originally published here. These are the people who toil away in obscurity for years doing the hard ...
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By Malin Vedøy Uthaug A single inhalation of vapor from dried toad secretion containing5-methoxy-N,N-dimethyltryptamine (5-MeO-DMT) in a naturalistic setting is ...
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By Michelle Anne Hobart, MA, SEC, AMFT With the resurgence of psychedelics and the important research into the many therapeutic ...
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On May 8th, the city of Denver, Colorado voted yes on I-301, which decriminalizes the possession and use of psilocybin-containing ...
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Ibogaine is a psychedelic chemical found in the West African shrub Iboga. Bizarre in chemical structure and psychoactive properties, the ...
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This interview was transcribed from our Navigating Psychedelics: Lessons on Self-Care & Integration master class with Elizabeth Gibson of Dreamshadow ...
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This is an edited transcript from a podcast that was recorded live in Bolten Valley, Vermont for a MAPS Psychedelic ...
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Psychedelics Today has withdrawn support and endorsement for MycoMeditations, a legal psychedelic retreat company located in Jamaica. We have been ...
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by Malin Vedøy Uthaug The consumption of 5-MeO-DMT by inhaling bufotoxins from the Colorado River toad (lat. Incilius Alvarius), also ...
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By Dr. Jessica Katzman For the first time in nearly three decades, novel classes of medication are being offered to ...
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Psychedelic science and research has been getting a lot of mainstream media attention over the years and for good reason ...
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Psychedelics: A Re-Emerging Field As psychedelic research re-emerges from its dark ages, the world is beginning to learn about their ...
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By Faan Rossouw Originally published here.   This is the third article in a series on psychedelic chemistry, and the ...
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By Faan Rossouw Originally published here.   This is the second article in a series on psychedelic chemistry. In the ...
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By Faan Rossouw Originally published here. The ensuing series of articles are intended for the general reader that, like myself, ...
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By Aeden Smith-Ahearn The use of heroin and abuse of opiate pain-relievers has reached an all-time high in the USA ...
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As psychedelic research progresses, people are starting to feel more comfortable talking about their life-changing experiences with psychedelic substances and ...
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By David Stetson How can we use our mind, intellect, or heart to diffuse or address the origin of our ...
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"Can I use my mind as a tool to help me open a closed heart?" We talked to a 79-year-old ...
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"Through my lens, so many problems in this world are driven by people acting from a reactionary place of fear ...
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Kyle and Joe chatted with Brian Normand, Co-Founder of Psymposia, about the development of Psymposia and the online magazine that ...
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