Breathe. Breathe. Breathe. An Interview with Iker Puente on Holotropic Breathwork

Holotropic Breathwork is not just a breath technique. It was conceived as a non-drug way of accessing non-ordinary states of consciousness.


Non-PTSD Uses for MDMA

While much progress has been made, a narrow focus of MDMA just for PTSD obscures the larger applications of MDMA, particularly for those whom traditional psychotherapy has been largely ineffective.


Half Baked Legalization Reflects Structural Inequalities of the System

Legalization should mean everyone has the right to grow, not just some people or corporations with money looking to profit.


Comedian Adam Strauss on treating OCD with psilocybin mushrooms

Inspired by a scientific study showing that psilocybin mushrooms can potentially cure OCD, Adam Strauss embarked on vigilante psychopharmacology.


Why I Opposed Half-Baked Legalization in Ohio

Legalization should mean everyone has the right to grow, not just some people or corporations with money looking to profit.


The State: Friday, Oct 27, 2017

To get a vision of the future of psychedelics from a legal and regulatory perspective, the most useful thing to do might be to see what's happening already in the realm of weed.


The Big & Dandy List of Psychedelic-Mining-Extractive-Industry Ties

This list is by no means exhaustive, but it spotlights a number of psychedelic pharmaceutical companies and executives with ties to extractive industry.


Psymposia’s Response to Heroic Hearts’ Pharma-Backed Press Conference

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.


An open letter to the newly founded Center for Psychedelic Research at Johns Hopkins

With the recent creation of the Center for Psychedelic and Consciousness Research at Johns Hopkins Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland, we must remember that, while industrialized medicine has never attempted to serve all people, institutional histories vary from one organization to the next.


Power Tripping #7: Political Science

What's going on with the MAPS narratives? How is it possible that Mel, Leah, and Meaghan's experiences have been so at odds with the "standard story" we've heard about psychedelic clinical trials? Why can't we seem to get straight answers to simple questions? The Psymposia team drills down into the questions raised by the revelations in "Political Science" in an attempt to highlight some of the dynamics at the heart of psychedelic science.