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New Website Details Abuse Allegations Against German Psychedelic Practitioners
A new website — whoisjoeschraube.com — alleges that Joe Schraube and Miguel Delgado have taken advantage of positions of power and abused people under the influence of psychedelics.
MAPS Canada’s Data Breach Foreshadows Corporadelic Future
As the psychedelic pharmaceutical industry increasingly prioritizes personal data extraction through mobile apps, wearables, and so-called “targeted” medicine, a recent data breach by former MAPS Canada Executive Director Mark Haden provides a warning about some of the possible consequences to the financial incentives of datafication.
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COMPASS Pathways’ Psilocybin Patent Questioned By UK Patent Examiner
While COMPASS has issued a response defending the validity of its patents, one of the co-inventors says the patent examiner’s opinion is probably “a valid one.”
COMPASS Pathways Is Trying to Patent Psilocybin for More Mental Health Conditions Than You Can Name
by Russell Hausfeld and David Nickles
News that COMPASS Pathways is attempting to patent psychedelic therapy room specifications and therapist behaviors started an online firestorm about the company’s “monopolistic and shady behaviors,” but so far the debates have missed the biggest threats lurking in COMPASS’s international patent applications.
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New Website Details Abuse Allegations Against German Psychedelic Practitioners
A new website — whoisjoeschraube.com — alleges that Joe Schraube and Miguel Delgado have taken advantage of positions of power and abused people under the influence of psychedelics.
MAPS Canada’s Data Breach Foreshadows Corporadelic Future
As the psychedelic pharmaceutical industry increasingly prioritizes personal data extraction through mobile apps, wearables, and so-called “targeted” medicine, a recent data breach by former MAPS Canada Executive Director Mark Haden provides a warning about some of the possible consequences to the financial incentives of datafication.
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#45 – Part Two: Digital Capitalism on Psychedelics with Emma Stamm
In part two of our conversation with Villanova visiting professor of philosophy Emma Stamm, we discuss the "psychedelic industry's" increasing fixation on digital capitalism. Looking at apps like MyDelica and hardware like Kernel's brain-scanning helmet, we discuss how the social implications of this technology extend well beyond psychedelia.
#44 – Part One: Talking Acid Communism with Emma Stamm
In part one of our conversation with Villanova visiting professor of philosophy Emma Stamm, we discuss Mark Fisher’s Acid Communism, leftist thought in psychedelia, Jacques Derrida’s hauntology, and Byung-Chul Han’s Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power.
Livestream – November 19, 2020
We kicked off the start of our ongoing livestreams with the announcement of Psymposia's 501(c)(3) non-profit status, discussions of corporadelic dynamics, fond memories of helping people learn how to extract psychedelic drugs during an Ivy League University's psychedelic conference, and a whole bunch of back and forth with the audience about the current state (and future) of psychedelia.
Chemical Poetics: Rebel Wisdom and the Psychedelic IDW
Neşe Devenot, PhD of Psymposia’s Plus Three podcast ventures into the psychedelic “arm” of the Intellectual Dark Web in this first episode of Chemical Poetics.
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A series exploring the infiltration of the psychedelic pharmaceutical industry by companies, investors, and executives from extractive industry.
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A six part series on the intersection of psychedelics and capitalism, and the early investors making it happen.
From Mining to Mushrooms
A series exploring the infiltration of the psychedelic pharmaceutical industry by companies, investors, and executives from extractive industry.
Livestream – November 19, 2020
We kicked off the start of our ongoing livestreams with the announcement of Psymposia's 501(c)(3) non-profit status, discussions of corporadelic dynamics, fond memories of helping people learn how to extract psychedelic drugs during an Ivy League University's psychedelic conference, and a whole bunch of back and forth with the audience about the current state (and future) of psychedelia.
The LSD Silo Bust according to William Leonard Pickard
Neşe Devenot shares William Leonard Pickard's description of his side of the Silo bust in "The Rose of Paracelsus."
Corporadelic
A series on the intersection of psychedelics and capitalism, and the early investors making it happen.
Corporadelic
A series on the intersection of psychedelics and capitalism, and the early investors making it happen.
Talking Psychedelic Capitalism in a WeWork Ballroom
Psychedelic capitalists justify their decision to go for-profit in the ballroom of America’s most recent for-profit flop.
