In 1906, a U.S. plant pathologist named Franklin Sumner Earle collected a small brown mushroom in Cuba and shipped it to the New York Botanical Garden. He called it _Stropharia cubensis_ — later reclassified as Psilocybe cubensis — and never mentioned it again in any of his letters. — Read the rest
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Psilocybin eased nerve pain and primed the brain for gabapentin.
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I had been sitting down to churn out today’s edition of Pook-Emu Bee links when work fell into my lap. But it is now lunch, and lunch means it is time for links. 1. Humpback Whales Sometimes Hold Their Mouths Open for No Clear Reason. Tourists Are Helping Scientists Understand the Rare Behavior (Margherita Bassi […]
A single 25-milligram dose of psilocybin briefly pushed the brains of psychedelic novices into a more chaotic, flexible state—and some traces of the experience were still visible a month later.
Last year, the FDA had warned that natural opioids in kratom were being turned into harmful products. Now President Trump says approval should be considered.
A new paper in _Nature Communications_ , covered by Ian Sample at the Guardian, claims a single 25mg dose may leave behind anatomical changes in the wiring itself, still visible 30 days on.
Researchers at UC San Francisco and Imperial College London recruited 28 psychedelic-naive adults and gave each of them a token 1mg primer, then a full 25mg session a month later. — Read the rest
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Psychedelics’ potential as a form of treatment is virtually unmatched. But their promise faces both scientific uncertainty and thorny political questions.
Exploring the origins of an incredibly dumb, Magic Eye-themed WHCD conspiracy theory.
In this week’s STATus Report, host Alex Hogan chats with STAT Washington correspondent Daniel Payne about Trump's psychedelics EO.
Comedian Shane Mauss thinks he's dating a woman in another dimension, and she gets jealous of his real-world girlfriend. The comedian has encountered the same purple dancing figure five or six times on DMT trips, always in the same carnival setting with a Ferris wheel and a guy playing piano. — Read the rest
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Psychedelics are making the brain's hierarchies flatter and more democratic.
President Trump’s executive order on was largely applauded by advocates. But some also quietly worried the White House’s role risks politicizing their field and undermining its credibility.
“The research is clear about one thing: Recovery is not primarily a pharmacological event,” write Dimitri Mugianis and Ross Ellenhorn.
President Donald Trump recently signed an executive order aimed at encouraging expanded research into psychedelic drugs, part of a broader push to explore emerging mental health treatment. The president also announced that the federal government is making a $50 million investment for further research into the psychedelic drug ibogaine. Long whispered about in alternative healing […]
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Why do people in America smoke so much marijuana? One answer is that life is boring or ugly, but another is that trauma from early life sets people back by a few decades and they stay stoned in order to deal with the confusion. Science tells us now how marijuana intensifies abuse experiences: The results […]
Trump directed the federal government to rush access to psychedelic treatments and reevaluate their status as controlled substances.
Albert Hofmann calculated that one teaspoon of LSD could affect 50,000 people. He arrived at that figure after accidentally absorbing a trace amount through his skin at the Sandoz laboratory in Basel on April 16, 1943 — 83 years ago today. — Read the rest
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Researchers from McGill University and Mila, Quebec’s artificial intelligence institute, brought together 89 experts from 17 countries for the study.
(RNS) — In ‘Beyond Wellness,’ religious ethics professor Liz Bucar makes the case for connecting yoga, meditation and other practices to their religious origins.
Psilocybin, LSD, mescaline, DMT, and ayahuasca have different chemical structures, different durations, different cultural histories — and they all do the same thing to the brain. A mega-analysis published in _Nature Medicine_ found a shared two-part pattern across all five drugs: normally tight neural networks weaken internally, while brain regions that usually stay segregated start talking to…
A single guided dose of psilocybin vastly outperforms standard nicotine patches in quitting smoking.
Dante Liberato, a 27-year-old retired cage fighter who lives in Manitou Springs, Colorado, spent 11 days last October running the 500 miles between there and Moab, Utah — eating LSD and psilocybin throughout. His protocol: 30 to 40 micrograms of LSD trickled across the day, accumulating to around 200 micrograms by nightfall, then 11 to 14 hours of running the next morning before camping again. —…
This modified plant grows magic mushroom compounds and toad venom.
In the last decade, there’s been an increasing openness both culturally and medically about the therapeutic uses of psychedelic drugs to address mental health issues. Psychedelics have been used by everyone from professional athletes to people experiencing PTSD; recently, journalist Robert Draper chronicled his experiences with ibogaine for The New York Times Magazine. Getting different […]
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How has the FDA's recent decisions on rare disease drugs affected investment trends? Why is Eli Lilly getting into sleep medicine? Find out on this week's episode of "The Readout…
Researchers at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel have modified tobacco plants to yield five psychedelic compounds at once: bufotenin and 5-MeO-DMT (from Colorado River toad secretions), DMT (a tryptamine found across plant species), and psilocin and psilocybin (normally found in mushrooms). — Read the rest
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Should ketamine be used strictly as a pharmacological intervention, or should psychotherapy be incorporated? A new study is trying to tackle this question.
Rocky Mountain Poison and Drug Safety will receive a $3.1 million federal grant over five years to administer the National Survey Investigating Hallucinogenic Trends
BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM A new clinical trial from Johns Hopkins University produced results that surprised even the researchers behind it. Participants who took a single dose of psilocybin, the active compound in magic mushrooms, had more than six times greater odds of being cigarette-free at the six-month mark compared to those using nicotine […]
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