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Russell Hausfeld

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Russell Hausfeld is an investigative journalist and illustrator living in Cincinnati, Ohio. He has a Bachelor’s degree in Journalism and Religious Studies from the University of Cincinnati. His work with Psymposia has been cited in Vice, The Nation, Frontiers in Psychology, New York Magazine’s “Cover Story: Power Trip” podcast, the Daily Beast, the Outlaw Report, Harm Reduction Journal, and more.


  • Psychedelic Training Provider Fluence Files Trademark for Common Phrase, Walks Back After Criticism
    By Russell Hausfeld
    on November 4, 2022
  • The Misadventures of "Toxic Bob"
    By Russell Hausfeld
    on August 13, 2022
  • How To Open Your Wallet: The Hyped and Distorted Claims of Online Psychedelic Marketing
    By Russell Hausfeld
    on April 28, 2022
  • New Website Details Abuse Allegations Against German Psychedelic Practitioners
    By Russell Hausfeld
    on November 11, 2021
  • DoubleBlind Claims Its Ad Was the 'First-Ever' U.S. Psychedelic Destigmatization Campaign -- It Wasn't
    By Russell Hausfeld
    on October 6, 2021
  • Hamilton Morris Hired by Psilocybin Startup COMPASS Pathways, Ends "Hamilton's Pharmacopeia" On Vice
    By Russell Hausfeld
    on September 22, 2021
  • COMPASS Pathways' Psilocybin Patent Questioned By UK Patent Examiner
    By Russell Hausfeld
    on August 5, 2021
  • The Third Wave’s Paul Austin Has Been Accused of Stealing Information For His Psychedelic Provider Directory
    By Russell Hausfeld
    on April 2, 2021
  • COMPASS Pathways Is Trying to Patent Psilocybin for More Mental Health Conditions Than You Can Name
    By Russell Hausfeld
    on March 18, 2021
  • Timothy Leary’s Castalia Foundation Has Been Co-opted to Promote Conspiracy Theories about COVID and Elite Pedophile Rings
    By Russell Hausfeld
    on February 2, 2021
  • Psychedelic Authoritarianism Harm Reduction: “QAnon Shaman” Edition
    By Russell Hausfeld
    on January 19, 2021
  • Christopher Valore (AKA The Architect) talks “Conductor,” His Virtual-Reality, Psychedelic-Visual Sandbox Platform
    By Russell Hausfeld
    on December 7, 2020
  • Thea Riofrancos on the Implications of Global Energy Transition and the Impacts of Lithium Extraction
    By Russell Hausfeld
    on November 3, 2020
  • The Big & Dandy List of Psychedelic-Mining-Extractive-Industry Ties
    By Russell Hausfeld
    on November 3, 2020
  • Why are so many extractive industry executives speculating on psychedelics?
    By Russell Hausfeld
    on November 3, 2020
  • Will Extractive Industry Bring Its Disregard for Indigenous People Into The Psychedelic Industry?
    By Russell Hausfeld
    on November 3, 2020
  • As Psychedelics Enter the Mainstream, Mining Companies Look to Dig Up Profits
    By Russell Hausfeld
    on November 3, 2020
  • ATAI Life Sciences Company, EmpathBio, Dives Into MDMA Derivatives, Calls MAPS’ Approach “MDMA 1.0”
    By Russell Hausfeld
    on September 27, 2020
  • As COMPASS Pathways continues its attempts to build a psychedelic monopoly, Usona Institute keeps publishing open research
    By Russell Hausfeld
    on September 15, 2020
  • Forget Plant-Based Medicine, MDMA is Now Made From Crude Oil
    By Russell Hausfeld
    on August 4, 2020
  • LSD Chemist William Leonard Pickard Has Been Released From Prison
    By Russell Hausfeld
    on July 24, 2020
  • MindMed’s CEO Jamon "JR" Rahn Wants Nothing To Do With Those Psychedelic Decrim People
    By Russell Hausfeld
    on May 5, 2020
  • Field Trip Announces “World’s First” Virtual Psychedelic Therapy, But Forgets To Mention They Aren’t the First and No Psychedelics Are Involved
    By Russell Hausfeld
    on April 25, 2020
  • Psychedelic Video Museum Celebrates Virtual Launch
    By Russell Hausfeld
    on April 24, 2020
  • Indie Film 'Debbie and Doug Drop Acid in the Desert' is a Visual and Emotional Trip
    By Russell Hausfeld
    on April 15, 2020
  • How psychedelic clinical trials are being affected by coronavirus
    By Russell Hausfeld
    on April 8, 2020
  • Ayahuasca Healings’ Trinity de Guzman calls coronavirus “a necessary purge”
    By Russell Hausfeld
    on March 25, 2020
  • Native American Churches Request that Peyote Not Be Included in Decriminalization Initiatives
    By Russell Hausfeld
    on March 16, 2020
  • Calm Down. What's the Worst Thing That the Wellness Industry Could Do to Psychedelics?
    By Russell Hausfeld
    on March 11, 2020
  • Talking Psychedelic Capitalism in a WeWork Ballroom
    By Russell Hausfeld
    on March 11, 2020
  • Christian Angermayer’s ATAI Life Sciences is positioned to take the psychedelic throne from MAPS
    By Russell Hausfeld
    on March 11, 2020
  • “Making psychedelics boring again”— Unless you’re a privileged psychedelic executive, of course
    By Russell Hausfeld
    on March 11, 2020
  • Psychedelic Trade Secrets and Get-Rich-Quick Schemes —a Benefit to Investors, a Harm to Progress
    By Russell Hausfeld
    on March 11, 2020
  • Never Forget: Before There Was A Mush Rush, There Was A Plea For Decency
    By Russell Hausfeld
    on March 11, 2020
  • Could wearable microdosing technology be a thing one day?
    By Russell Hausfeld
    on February 5, 2020
  • 31 miles and a tab of acid later...
    By Russell Hausfeld
    on December 19, 2019
  • As legal psychedelic therapy emerges, ethicists urge for more comprehensive frameworks to address sexual abuse
    By Russell Hausfeld
    on November 21, 2019
  • Chicago could become largest city to Decriminalize Entheogenic Plants
    By Russell Hausfeld
    on October 22, 2019
  • Third Wave staff quits, writes open letter, over work environment created by founder Paul Austin
    By Russell Hausfeld
    on March 3, 2019
  • MDMA Expanded Access is almost here. What's it all about?
    By Russell Hausfeld
    on February 8, 2019
  • Will MDMA-assisted psychotherapy be covered by health insurance?
    By Russell Hausfeld
    on January 24, 2019
  • How will MDMA be rescheduled in the future? You may be disappointed
    By Russell Hausfeld
    on January 16, 2019
  • The Future of MDMA: Phase 3 and Beyond
    By Russell Hausfeld
    on January 14, 2019
  • Bunk Police Drug Testing
    The Bunk Police is looking to destroy dishonesty in the drug market
    By Russell Hausfeld
    on November 27, 2018
  • Intentionally-diverse MDMA research at University of Connecticut Cut Short
    By Russell Hausfeld
    on November 7, 2018
  • psychedelic.support creates a network for psychedelic therapists
    By Russell Hausfeld
    on November 1, 2018
  • Pulitzer Prize winner Terry DeMio on life as a heroin beat reporter
    By Russell Hausfeld
    on September 25, 2018
  • Some colleges just don't understand harm reduction
    By Russell Hausfeld
    on July 26, 2018
  • What happens when you give an octopus MDMA?
    By Russell Hausfeld
    on July 23, 2018
  • Reclaiming Your Identity As A Drug User
    By Russell Hausfeld
    on July 3, 2018
  • How should we be teaching students about drugs?
    By Russell Hausfeld
    on June 5, 2018
  • Becoming a Psychedelic Researcher: Alan Kooi Davis
    By Russell Hausfeld
    on April 25, 2018
  • You’ve had a life-changing experience with psychedelics. Do you tell your kids?
    By Russell Hausfeld
    on August 22, 2017

Coming Out of the Psychedelic Closet

October 8, 2015

Who am I? How do you answer that question? I’m a mother, a wife, a teacher, a scholar. And I’m also a psychedelic woman.


Taking Drugs Seriously: The Reagans, Socrates, and Hypocrisies

March 10, 2016

No offense to Nancy or the U$ government cocaine-smuggling rings that thrived under the regime of her anti-communist ideologue of a husband, but drugs are endemic to life.


Why I Came Out of the Psychedelic Closet

April 15, 2016

I majored in physics at Princeton. I’m a lawyer who graduated from Georgetown Law. I clerked for a Federal Judge. And, of course, I had a positive, life-changing trip on LSD.


Psychedelics and Identity Politics

May 3, 2016

The decades-long “War on Drugs” has created a situation in which the use of psychedelics is a social justice issue.


Why I’m Staying In the Psychedelic Closet

May 17, 2016

The demonization of psychedelic culture is not a social justice issue, and using the language of social justice is damaging to those causes.


Out Yourself

May 25, 2016

You can’t expect to get equal rights unless you push for them, and you can’t push for them without first standing up and being “out.”


The Psychonaut’s Dilemma

May 31, 2016

During an earlier era of psychedelic research, the 1950s-70s, some scientists believed that in order to ethically administer psychedelics to others it was necessary to first experience them oneself.


Be Honest, Is Your Psychedelic Use Purely “Sacred”?

June 2, 2016

Isn’t it just as valid and meaningful for psychedelics to be used for diversion, entertainment, relaxation, and adventure?


Rick Doblin’s Psychedelic Dreams

June 6, 2016

In the late 70's, about seven years after Rick Doblin decided to become a psychedelic therapist and researcher at age 18, he had this potent dream that confirmed his choice of work.


The Asymmetric Risk of Coming Out in Queer and Psychedelic Communities

June 9, 2016

The risk of coming out as queer is grossly unequal to the risk of disclosing as a psychedelic user.


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