Psychedelics

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MDMA showed me there’s more to life than being stuck over an ex-girlfriend

“Let It Happen” by Tame Impala came on as if there was a switch inside my brain where the drug started working.

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A Narc Gifts a Priest LSD

“Ralph, have you ever done LSD?” Of course, my dad’s speaking to a policeman, and it’s the 70’s, and my dad hadn’t done LSD.

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Obama Commutes Sentences for 111, Including Deadhead Serving Life for LSD

Timothy Tyler, was serving a double-life sentence without the possibility of parole for selling LSD.

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Envisioning a Sensible Psychedelic Drug Policy

What if honest drug education, harm reduction, long term integration, and acknowledging risks, took the place of propaganda?

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A Montreal street artist eats psilocybin mushrooms for the first time

“Ya I love it, good taste. Fresh!” I had no idea what I’m doing.

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How About a Positive Nicotine and Alcohol Story?

I was a couple strong beers in when I reached over for my friend’s vaporizer and took several drags. It was pretty psychedelic.

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Dorion Sagan on Carl Sagan, Lynn Margulis, and his new book, Cracking the Aging Code

In this interview I talk with Dorion Sagan about whether his father Carl Sagan used LSD, his mother Lynn Margulis’s paradigm-changing theory of symbiogenesis, her thoughts on psychedelics, and his new book Cracking the Aging Code: The New Science of Growing Old-And What It Means for Staying Young.

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Nick Sand – Father of the Orange Sunshine

Nick Sand’s talk at the 2016 Ozora Festival.

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I fell in love while candy flipping

The LSD rushed through my gums and into my jaw at the same time the bitter drip of MDA slowly ran down the back of my throat. I didn’t exactly understand what was happening nor did I care because I was excited.

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An Interview with Amanda Feilding, the ‘Hidden Hand’ in Psychedelic Science

We talked with Amanda Feilding about LSD, psychedelic neuroscience, Beckley Foundation’s latest research, and her promise to Albert Hofmann.

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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.

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Patterning a World of Mushrooms: The Challenges of Co-Production

‘Co-production’ refers to processes in which a range of experts and non-experts are enrolled as researchers and attempt to generate knowledge together.