As legal psychedelic therapy emerges, ethicists urge for more comprehensive frameworks to address sexual abuse
November 21, 2019
With a checkered history of misconduct, how will psychedelic-assisted therapists be held accountable in the emerging legal field?
As COMPASS Pathways continues its attempts to build a psychedelic monopoly, Usona Institute keeps publishing open research
September 15, 2020
Since COMPASS Pathways filed for a controversial psilocybin patent in 2018, Usona Institute has consistently placed its research findings in the public domain.
Calm Down. What’s the Worst Thing That the Wellness Industry Could Do to Psychedelics?
March 11, 2020
As technology and psychedelics turn to mental health, we’ll likely see a future where we are treated based on our digital biomarkers, and sold mental health services based on the personal data we surrender.
Ohio City Gov’t: We have to fine and jail overdose survivors to give them “treatment opportunities”
April 13, 2017
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.”
Envisioning a Sensible Psychedelic Drug Policy
August 30, 2016
What if honest drug education, harm reduction, long term integration, and acknowledging risks, took the place of propaganda?
An open letter in response to John Oliver’s Last Week Tonight episode on Psychedelic Assisted Therapy
March 23, 2023
Last Week Tonight joined a long and growing list of media outlets that have added fuel to the hype of psychedelic medicalization. By omitting the potential risks and actual harms associated with psychedelic-assisted therapy, this messaging increases the risk to the public by presenting unrealistic expectations about experimental treatments.
Young People of Color As Leaders in The Movement To End the War on Drugs
April 22, 2019
How do you center the needs and perspectives of people of color in your activism—not because you want to fill a quota, but because the success of your work depends on it?
Church of Psilomethoxin, Part 1: Sacramental Skepticism. Is the Church in Denial?
April 28, 2023
This is the first article in a series investigating the Church of Psilomethoxin (CoP), exploring the recent debate about the Church's sacrament and the people involved in promoting the Church and its claims.
Intersecting Movements: Drug Policy Reform and Climate Action
October 31, 2019
Climate justice is racial justice, and we cannot achieve racial justice without ending the War on Drugs.
Drug prohibition is morally unjust and pragmatically useless, Pt. 2
June 6, 2017
Proponents of drug prohibition provide reasons why alcoholic substances should continue to remain legal while substances like LSD should not. No persuasive arguments of that sort are anywhere to be found.