by Contributing Author | Other, Psychedelics, Safety & Harm Reduction
Psychedelic drugs such as magic mushrooms and LSD should be legally reclassified so researchers can investigate their potential medical uses, an academic specializing in drugs has said. James Rucker, from the Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre at Kings...
by Contributing Author | DMT, Psychedelics, Psychedelics & Health
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]As it turns out, experiences induced by dimethyltryptamine (DMT) may be doing better for the belief in an afterlife than conventional forms of religion have in recent decades. Many of the testimonials from individuals that have...
by Contributing Author | Other, Psychedelics, Psychedelics & Health
It’d be a monumental leap forward in the ongoing agony and ecstasy of treating wartime post-traumatic stress with psychedelics. They’d be somewhat unlikely partners, sure, but to hear that the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies has...
by Spirit Molecule | Other, Psychedelics, Psychedelics & Health
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Schizophrenia is understood to be a long term, disabling mental condition with which the afflicted individual interprets reality abnormally. ‘Schizophrenic’ behaviour includes, but is not limited to: faulty perception, mental...
by Spirit Molecule | LSD, Microdosing, Other, Psilocybin, Psychedelics, Self Actualization
As I write this I am consciously aware that I will give birth to more questions than answers, Yet I feel it is crucial and sane to open up the discussion on psychedelics into a new area of possibilities and understanding. I do feel that it is more important not to shy...
by Spirit Molecule | Ayahuasca, Psychedelics, Psychedelics & Health
A psychedelic drink used for centuries in healing ceremonies is now attracting the attention of biomedical scientists as a possible treatment for depression. Researchers from Brazil last month published results from the first clinical test of a potential therapeutic...
by Spirit Molecule | Cannabis, Psychedelics, Psychedelics & Health
A group of medical researchers from St. George’s University of London were commissioned by the federal government for the purpose of definitively proving that cannabis has “no medicinal value”; however, they seem to have proven just the opposite. The results of the...
by Spirit Molecule | Other, Psychedelics
For years, it has been believed that there could be a relationship between psychedelic use and the development of psychosis, psychological distress, and other mental conditions. Only recently has enough time passed to truly get an accurate analysis of the long term...
by Spirit Molecule | Other, Psilocybin, Psychedelics, Psychedelics & Health, Safety & Harm Reduction
The use of psychedelic drugs is as safe as riding a bike or playing football, according to the heads of a drug research organisation. Teri Krebs and husband Pål-Ørjan Johansen say bans on drugs such as magic mushrooms and MDMA are “inconsistent with human...
by Spirit Molecule | LSD, Psychedelics, Science
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Dr. Robin Carhart-Harris has boldly gone where no man has gone in over 40 years: he is the first person in the UK to have legally administered doses of LSD to human volunteers since the Misuse of Drugs Act of 1971. Dr....
by Spirit Molecule | Cannabis, Psychedelics, Psychedelics & Health
In this article, Mike Zappy transcribes the contents of a talk on cannabis and how it’s going to change ‘life as we know it’ that he had intended to deliver at a Tedx event in Boca Raton. The text was approved by the organizers and Zappy was...
by Spirit Molecule | Ayahuasca, Psychedelics, Psychedelics & Health
Diabetes currently affects hundreds of millions of people worldwide. In America alone, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that number to be approximately 20 million. Potential cures and methods to reverse the disease (t are showing some...
by Spirit Molecule | Psychedelics, Psychedelics & Health, Science
Before my bed, the moon is shining bright, I think that it is frost upon the ground. I raise my head and look at the bright moon, I lower my head and think of home. In the last few years a large amount of research and studies have been engaged on by scientists all...
by Spirit Molecule | Ayahuasca, Psychedelics, Psychedelics & Health
New research published in Nature Medicine may have unlocked a new line of treatment for diabetes. The researchers honed in on the main culprits in diabetes: beta cells. These cells concentrate in the pancreas in little clusters called islets, and they produce the...
by Spirit Molecule | Other, Psychedelics, Psychedelics & Health, Science
A recent Press Release from MAPS from their website regarding legal issues with MDMA and its legalization for medicinal use within 6 years. You can read the original release here. Santa Cruz, Calif.—The Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) is...
by Contributing Author | LSD, Psychedelics, Science
Article originally posted by Allegra Kirkland, AlterNet. We are currently experiencing a “renaissance” in psychedelic research, as Michael Pollan writes in a recent issue of The New Yorker. Hallucinogenic drugs like psilocybin can be used to treat a range of mental...