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Why We Need to Talk About “Bad Trips”

Although psychedelics are going to shape the future of mental health therapy, these powerful mind-altering substances shouldn’t be taken lightly.

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The Unexpected Trip

When I graduated from the Air Force Academy, it was George W. Bush who handed me my diploma.

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Psychedelics Can’t be Tested Using Conventional Clinical Trials

Should these drugs become part of medicine cabinets from San Francisco to America’s heartland, it will be high time to develop drug tests that control for the cultural diversity of this country’s doctors and patients.

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Caraballo & Norzi’s new film ‘Icaros: A Vision’ reinvents the aesthetic of psychedelics on screen.

Icaros: A Vision opens Friday, May 19th 2017 at Metrograph in NYC, followed by a national rollout in several cities in the U.S. and overseas.

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A Brief History of the Drug War

Why are some drugs legal and other drugs illegal? It’s not based on science or the relative risks – but has everything to do with who is associated with them.

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How Social and Climate Justice Activism is Psychedelic

As I became activated to defend something bigger than my own immediate welfare, a shift took place—a shift toward seeing reality as a singular entity as opposed to a bunch of disjointed parts.

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The families in México who’ve experienced the real consequences of drug prohibition.

The families of the disappeared people have had to organize among themselves, do their own investigations, and push state agents such as the police, judges, and the general attorney to do their job.

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Don’t Get Trapped in Psychedelic Identity Politics!

By limiting the psychedelic community to a certain homogeneity, it’s ultimately excluding to its detriment.

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Nick Sand, Orange Sunshine LSD chemist, dies at 75

The undaunted spirit and psychedelic warrior of love and light, Nick Sand, the outlaw chemist, died in his sleep on Monday April 24th at the age of 75.

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Where Eco-Feminism and Psychedelics Meet

We talked with Zoe Helene, the founder of Cosmic Sister, a group started as an underground network for women who have each other’s best interests at heart, women supporting women.

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Ohio City Gov’t: We have to fine and jail overdose survivors to give them “treatment opportunities”

If someone overdoses from heroin or opiate drugs and has to be revived by paramedics or police with naloxone, they will be charged with “inducing panic.”

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A Short History of Psychedelic Psychotherapy, Pt. 2

Let’s go forward in time through the government’s ban on psychedelics, and look how it has blossomed into the psychedelic renaissance.