Former Nurse Avoids 10-Year Prison Sentence For Microdosing Psilocybin
In July 2022, a story sent shockwaves through the psychedelic community: an Indiana nurse and mother of five was about to be sentenced to 10 years in prison for growing mushrooms after she’d learned that microdosing psilocybin might improve her 20-year struggle with treatment-resistant depression.
Olympia City Council effectively decriminalizes some psychedelics
The resolution does not allow for the commercial manufacturing or sales of such plants or fungi.
Sacred Knowledge: how psychedelics shaped an academic’s life
In 1963, then-psychology grad student William A Richards was studying in Germany when he volunteered to take part in an experiment with psychedelics.
Groovy, baby! The renaissance in psychedelic science is here
If you’ve been paying attention to the health news of late, you might think you’ve have travelled back in time to the 1960s. It’s not a bad acid trip.
No link found between psychedelics and psychosis
In large US survey, users of LSD and similar drugs were no more likely to have mental-health conditions than other respondents.
Could psychedelics transform mental health?
Think of magic mushrooms and LSD and it’s likely that science is not the first thing that springs to mind.
Psychedelic drug use linked to lower suicide risk, finds study
Psychaedelic drugs have been linked to a lower risk of suicide in marginalised people in a new study.
Psychedelics’ Buddhist Revival
Nearly ten years ago, in the middle of a monthlong meditation retreat, Spring Washam had a sobering experience. Far from entering one of the blissful states of concentration that often mark the jhanas, the progressive stages of meditative absorption outlined in Theravada Buddhism…
Another psychedelic revolution, but this time it’s different
After years battling arduous laws and red tape, psychedelic therapy research is enjoying new found freedoms. The onus is now on scientists to prove it really works…
A new scientific study suggests strong similarities between near death experiences and the psychedelic drug
The chill of the fluid flows through Iona’s arm as the DMT – N,N-Dimethyltryptamine- is pumped into her bloodstream.