New Study Suggests Meditation, Psychedelic Use Leads to Positive Leadership Growth at Work

Mindfulness meditation and psychedelics have shown up together as a therapeutic pair throughout history. Ancient yogis, in a practice that sees yoga as meditation through movement, paired cannabis with their tradition, and...

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Location of Receptor Key to Psychedelic Drug Effects

It turns out that real estate and psychedelic treatments hinge on the same factor. That is the chief takeaway from a new paper published by researchers at the University of California, Davis. “Location, location, location...

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First Meeting Held by Experts From the Hawaiian Psychedelic Task Force

The Hawaii Office of Wellness and Resilience recently announced that the Breakthrough Therapies Task Force held its first meeting on Aug. 29. The task force consists of 11 individuals whose role is to research and explore...

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Police serve warrant, make arrests at Portland (OR) shop selling psychedelic mushrooms

KPTV reports that all that publicity wasn’t nescessarily good for the business Police served a warrant and made arrests at a shop in Portland that is selling psychedelic mushrooms that aren’t legal in Oregon yet. PORTLAND,...

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Want to pay $2,700 for some psychedelic sessions? This tony, psychiatry clinic may fit the bill

The Jeff Ditzell Psychiatry clinic in New York City’s financial district is all about taking the stigma out of psychiatry and guiding patients/customers to better head spaces through different therapies, including ketamine...

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Michigan Lawmakers Call On Congress To Consider Psychedelic Treatment For Vets

Lawmakers in Michigan last week passed a resolution in which they called on members of the United States Congress, as well as the Department of Defense, and Department of Veterans Affairs, to “prioritize research and investment...

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Colorado Senate Approves Prop 122 Psychedelic Advisory Board

Westword reports Governor Jared Polis’s nominations for the Natural Medicine Advisory Board were approved by the Colorado Senate on March 17. The new panel will soon get to work developing rules and regulations for psychedelics...

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COMPASS Pathways Secures $285 Million Towards Psychedelics for Mental Health

COMPASS Pathways, a biotechnology company dedicated to innovation in mental health, gained $285 million in private funding to research psychedelics, Behavioral Health Business reports. This amount should be enough to back...

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Survey: One-Third of Those Under 50 Open to Psychedelic Mental Health Treatments

A poll from YouGov “found that a significant percentage of respondents across different age groups, including 18-24 year olds (36%) and 25-49 year olds (30%), expressed interest in trialing psilocybin and other currently...

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Video: Rick Perry: The conservative case for psychedelic medicine

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New Report Published: The Canadian Psychedelic Survey: Characteristics, Patterns of Use, and Access in a Large Sample of People Who Use Psychedelic Drugs

Abstract Background: Recent years have seen a resurgence in clinical interest in, and increased public acceptance of, psychedelic drugs in Canada. However, our understanding of how psychedelic drugs are currently used in...

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New Paper Compares Effect of Psychedelics to Meditation, Hypnosis

A recently published paper aims to fill the research gap concerning various altered states of consciousness –– from psychedelic use to meditation to hypnosis. The paper, published last month in Biological Psychiatry:...

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Press Release: EntheoTech Bioscience Inc. Opens Flagship Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy Clinic in Kelowna, BC

KELOWNA, BC, May 2, 2023 /CNW/ – EntheoTech Bioscience Inc. (“EntheoTech”), a Canadian-based bioscience company providing Psychedelic Assisted Therapy to individuals with depression, anxiety, chronic pain, PTSD, and...

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Vermont Lawmakers File Several Bills To Legalize Psychedelics, Other Drugs

Lawmakers in Vermont have introduced several bills aimed at making sweeping changes to the state’s drug laws.  The website Psychedelic Spotlight has a primer on the four separate pieces of legislation that would “decriminalize...

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California Psychedelics Legalization Bill Approved by Assembly Public Safety Committee

California Assembly committee has approved a Senate-passed bill to legalize the possession and facilitated use of certain psychedelics. The Assembly Public Safety Committee advanced the legislation from Sen. Scott Wiener...

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Legal Considerations when Advertising Psychedelic Products and Related Therapeutic Services

Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz PC Source Lexology Author Dorian Thomas https://fkks.com/attorneys/dorian-thomas Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz PC Microdosing. “Magic” mushroom dinners. Ayahuasca retreats. Today,...

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Filter Article: Why Indigenous Protesters Stopped a Global Psychedelic Conference

arly this summer, the Psychedelic Science conference brought 12,000 people to Denver, Colorado, to participate in a dizzying array of sessions, as I reported for Filter. But on the final day, June 23, a protest stopped...

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Press Release: Announcement of Funding for Two New Research Projects to Test the Effects of Psychedelic Medicines for Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) and in Group Situations

Mind Medicine Australia is delighted to announce that it is funding two new research projects by the ANU School of Medicine and Psychology and a team led by Professor Paul Fitzgerald, Associate Professor Bernadette Fitzgibbon...

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Vermont Lawmakers File Bills To Legalize Psychedelics And Decriminalize All Drugs

Via Marijuana Moment Vermont lawmakers introduced four major drug reform proposals this month: Two of the bills would decriminalize simple possession of all drugs and expand harm reduction services, another would remove criminal...

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FDA Issues Draft Guidance For Clinical Studies On Psychedelics

The United States Food and Drug Administration, aka the FDA, issued the first-ever guidance for clinical studies on psychedelics, according to a news release issued Friday. They filed the 14-page document shortly after Congress...

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Study: Personal Psychedelic Use Common Among Therapists

Therapists who administer psychedelic treatments to patients apparently like to use psychedelics themselves. That is the chief takeaway of a new study published in the journal Psychedelic Medicine, revealing that “Personal...

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Article: Powerful D.C. Republicans Drive Psychedelic Research Efforts

Lucid news reports the following The legal future of medicinal psychedelics in Washington, D.C. may depend, in part, on the efforts of advocates with deep and longstanding ties to the Republican political establishment. It’s...

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Study: More Mystical Psychedelic Experiences Linked to Mental Health Improvements

A new study from researchers at The Ohio State University found that, when it comes to a psychedelic experience, the more mystical the better.  The analysis, based on “a machine learning analysis of data from nearly 1,000...

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Groups Team Up To Publish First Guidelines for Psychedelic Therapy

The American Psychedelic Practitioners Association and the nonprofit BrainFutures teamed up to release what they describe as the “first Professional Practice Guidelines for Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy.”  (The APPA bills...

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Psychedelic Therapy in Australia Likely To Cost Thousands

Patients in Australia will soon have legal access to the psychedelic drugs psilocybin and MDMA under a plan announced by regulators last month. But with no approved source of the drug available to therapists, patients will...

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New Study Reveals How Psychedelics Activate Parts of the Brain

The study, published in Neuroscience & Behavioral Review and aggregated by Psychedelic Spotlight, sought to broaden our understanding of how “psychedelics activate parts of the Default Mode Network,” which counters...

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Law Firm Article: United States: Launching A Business In Psychedelics?

19 June 2023 by Lee Silver Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz As interest in psychedelics grows and states begin to legalize possession, usage, and promotion, more and more entrepreneurs are contemplating...

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New FDA Guidance on Psychedelic Drug Development

Source JD Supra https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/new-fda-guidance-on-psychedelic-drug-4106424/ Stephanie Agu, David Fox, Lynn Mehler Hogan Lovells   On Friday, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) published the draft...

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Researchers Aim To Combine Psilocybin and Cannabis Into Single Medical Treatment

The company, CaaMTech, first received a patent in support of the research in 2021. An article published Wednesday on the website Greenstate explains that the company “develops pharmaceutical drugs for mental health conditions...

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Petition Launched To Legalize Shroom-Assisted Therapy in Canada

Advocates for the medical use of psilocybin mushrooms in Canada launched a petition to call upon the federal government to take action. Interest in psilocybin-assisted therapy continues to grow to combat end-of-life anxiety,...

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Berkeley Decriminalizes Psilocybin, Ayahuasca

City officials in Berkeley, California have reportedly moved to decriminalize both psilocybin mushrooms and ayahuasca. According to Psychedelic Spotlight, the city council there “unanimously” approved a measure to “officially...

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Aaron Rodgers To Speak at Denver Psychedelics Conference

NFL star quarterback Aaron Rodgers will be a featured speaker at a psychedelics conference to be held in Denver this summer, less than a year after Colorado voters decriminalized the therapeutic use of psilocybin mushrooms....

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Psilocybin Research Approved in Arizona Appropriations Act Budget

Arizona senators voted to approve a general appropriations act 2023-2024 on May 10. Within the appropriations bill is a multitude of funding proposals from the governor’s office, which includes everything from Alzheimer’s...

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