What’s so controversial about microdosing?
October 4, 2017
The incredible mainstream press microdosing has received has managed to avoid many discussions.
Psychedelic Harm Reduction in the Czech Republic
July 13, 2017
The Czech Psychedelic Society is creating the Czech version of Zendo Project and KosmiCare.
Psymposia’s Response to Heroic Hearts’ Pharma-Backed Press Conference
July 11, 2024
Veterans deserve the highest quality treatment for PTSD. It’s unacceptable and dangerous to use veterans as guinea pigs for a big pharma profit grab without resolving safety and efficacy concerns.
#49 – Part One: Jordan Peterson’s Psychedelic Hierarchy, ft. Thought Slime
May 19, 2022
In part 1 of this deep dive, Psymposia and Thought Slime analyze Jordan Peterson's fascination with psychedelics as an example of the reactionary, right-wing ideologies that have been developing within psychedelia in recent decades. Reacting to a 2021 podcast of Peterson's, we discuss the significance of Peterson's popularity among some prominent psychedelic researchers.
#50 – Part Two: Jordan Peterson’s Psychedelic Hierarchy, ft. Thought Slime
May 26, 2022
In part 2 of this deep dive, Psymposia and Thought Slime analyze Jordan Peterson's fascination with psychedelics as an example of the reactionary, right-wing ideologies that have been developing within psychedelia in recent decades. Reacting to a 2021 podcast of Peterson's, we discuss the significance of Peterson's popularity among some prominent psychedelic researchers.
#51 – Part Three: Jordan Peterson’s Psychedelic Hierarchy, ft. Thought Slime
June 2, 2022
In part 3 of this deep dive, Psymposia and Thought Slime analyze Jordan Peterson's fascination with psychedelics as an example of the reactionary, right-wing ideologies that have been developing within psychedelia in recent decades. Reacting to a 2021 podcast of Peterson's, we discuss the significance of Peterson's popularity among some prominent psychedelic researchers.
#3 – Live From Brooklyn: The Set and Setting of the Psychedelic Renaissance is Capitalism
October 12, 2019
Live from Brooklyn, New York, the team discusses psychedelic science unfolding in a capitalist culture and deconstructs the 'Standard Story' of psychedelic medicalization. They also talk about incoming corporations seeking to capitalize on psychedelic medicines, and ongoing decriminalization efforts across the country.
#4 – Psilocybin Incorporated
October 19, 2019
The crew recaps the Economic Models for the Expansion of Psychedelics panel at the Horizons Perspectives on Psychedelics conference in New York. They also discuss the corrosive effects that Compass Pathways, a for-profit psilocybin startup has had in psychedelic science and research.
#2 – Decriminalization Now!
October 1, 2019
The historical record is clear - drug prohibition is directly connected to the prosecution of minorities: ethnic or political. Not only do we see a complete lack of scientific or evidentiary basis for prohibition and criminalization, we can see it has been a product of white supremacy, xenophobia, misogyny, and imperialism.
#5 – Psychedelics X Climate Crisis
December 11, 2019
The team explores the Psychedelic/Climate-Change connection, and tools for addressing existential crisis. Climate change is the challenge of our era, but the media still distracts us with comparatively trivial matters.