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Psychedelics for Climate Action?
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Our statement on a recent Chacruna article by Dr. Bia Labate.
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Shlomi Raz, CEO of Eleusis Benefit Corporation, made false claims about psychedelics. We asked multiple ethnobotanists, a medical anthropologist, and a chemist if they could help us set the record straight.
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Psychedelic advocates have long asserted that broader psychedelic use will lead to a more open, progressive society, but there are too many instances of right-wingers who have taken them for that to be true.
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A recent BBC story entitled “The ‘psychedelics coach’ with drug-fuelled career advice,” offers an opportunity to examine what happens when sloppy journalism and self-promotional psychedelic marketers collide.
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A corrective experience achieved through dropping acid and running the 2019 Burning Man Ultramarathon
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David Nickles runs through his critique of a dominant narrative within the psychedelic culture, the narrative of “mainstreaming” psychedelics, and his concerns on the political and economic landscape that surrounds the “mainstreaming” of psychedelics.
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Pinchbeck has not publicly engaged in the difficult work of reorganizing his relationship to power, which is a precondition for learning to wield power and authority responsibly.
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The first time I bought a balloon of heroin I was 20 years old. Fresh out of rehab, I was craving opiates—specifically OxyContin.
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With a checkered history of misconduct, how will psychedelic-assisted therapists be held accountable in the emerging legal field?
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Climate justice is racial justice, and we cannot achieve racial justice without ending the War on Drugs.
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