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Becoming a Psychedelic Researcher: Alan Kooi Davis

Why researchers like Alan Kooi Davis — the newest addition to the Johns Hopkins psychedelic research team — decide to devote their careers to studying psychedelics.

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We talked with a researcher using psilocybin for cocaine addiction in Alabama

I came to a working hypothesis: at the center of the mystical experience is awe, wherein one is in the presence of something so great, so large, that it requires they completely reorder their mental structures – completely change the way they view reality.

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LSD Cured My Eating Disorder

As a teenager, I was taking ten milligrams of Ritalin daily. Later, I grew to love the way these pills made it easier for me not to eat.

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We now call ‘bad trips’ ‘challenging experiences’. Here’s why that’s misguided.

Renaming adverse effects of psychedelic drugs as “challenging experiences” minimizes, almost trivializes, their negative effects.

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Psychedelics and the Full-Fluency Phenomenon

I first discovered the potential psychedelics have for treating stuttering during an experience with psilocybin mushrooms.

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Two movements converge in Mexico at CryptoPsychedelic

Here’s what happened at the first CryptoPsychedelic summit in Tulum, Mexico.

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Is Ibogaine the Cure for Opioid Addiction? It’s Not That Simple. | Part 11

The Ibogaine Conversation Conclusion | The goal of this conversation was to provide a platform for a diverse range of perspectives on a single topic. Not everyone agrees, and that’s the point.

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Ibogaine Treatment Comes with Risks. We Had a Discussion About Safety with Medical Providers. | Part 10

The Ibogaine Conversation Part 10 | Unlike other psychedelic drugs, ibogaine is known to be potentially cardiotoxic. There are a number of fatalities associated with its use, and anyone considering working with it should be aware of the risks.

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How Safe is Ibogaine? We Asked Clare Wilkins Who Has Facilitated Over 700 Treatments | Part 9

The Ibogaine Conversation Part 9 | Using ibogaine can be fatal if proper safety precautions aren’t taken.

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How Not to Do Ibogaine 101 with Juliana Mulligan | Part 8

The Ibogaine Conversation Part 8 | This is not a do-it-at-home type thing.

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Former Underground Provider, Dimitri Mugianis, on the Regulation of Ibogaine | Part 7

The Ibogaine Conversation Part 7 | “Prescription is not about accessibility, by definition it’s about restriction. Unless we start to use psychedelics as a way to tear apart these structures and build new ones in their place, then I think it’s all a revolving door.”

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Patrick Kroupa, hacker and ex-heroin ‘junkie’, on microdosing and the medicalization of ibogaine | Part 6

The Ibogaine Conversation Part 6 | My experience with heroin went from age 14 up to age 30, and taking ibogaine was as close to a miracle as I have ever experienced in my life.