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The Untold Story of Women Psychedelic Therapists: 5 Questions with historian Zoë Dubus
Dubus discusses how three women changed how LSD was given to patients.
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RAND estimates millions of Americans microdosed psychedelics in 2025; New Jersey to commit $6 million to psilocybin research; new bills in…
Plus: Most Americans still feel neutral to negative about psychedelics, and New Mexico medical psilocybin program committees announced
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New psychedelic legislative efforts in WA; NJ bill passes; MindMed and Cybin rebranding
Plus: Psychedelic retreat safety protocols vary, and are psychoplastogens “sanitizing” psychedelics?
Jan 16
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Mixing antidepressants and psychedelics: 5 Questions for psychopharmacologist Kelan Thomas
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A message to readers of The Microdose, from Michael Pollan & the BCSP
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A Priest, a Rabbi, and a Muslim Leader Get High
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Ibogaine researcher Nolan Williams dies at 42; DOI and DOC use in the U.S. rare; Money, power, and hostility in psychedelics
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Little people hallucinations: 5 Questions with mushroom researcher Colin Domnauer
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Psychedelic Mad Men: 5 Questions for public health researcher Olivia Marcus
Marcus discusses the rise of psychedelic advertisements.
Jan 12
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Compass Pathways partnering with national mental health clinic chain; Government lifts clinical hold on synthetic 5-MeO-DMT; and DEA ups…
Plus: DEA extends telemedicine policy for yet another year and Qualitative experiences from a Compass psilocybin clinical trial
Jan 9
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Healing From Healing: 5 Questions for medical anthropologist Adam Aronovich
Aronovich discusses his Instagram account that collects outlandish videos of wellness culture.
Jan 5
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AtaiBeckley patents R-MDMA formulation, and California issues a shrooms edibles warning
Plus: The State of Psychedelics, and Difficulties following naturalistic psychedelic use associated with having had adverse childhood experiences
Dec 19, 2025
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Little people hallucinations: 5 Questions with mushroom researcher Colin Domnauer
Domnauer discusses a mushroom that reliably produces fairy-tale-like visions.
Dec 15, 2025
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Federal legislators try again on psychedelics legislation; New Mexico to launch psilocybin program a year early; and Mapping psilocybin in…
Plus: Are the “MDMA blues” real? And newly launched Center for Psychedelic Policy
Dec 12, 2025
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Who discovered serotonin? 5 Questions with neuropharmacologist Patricia Whitaker
Whitaker discusses the intertwined histories of LSD, serotonin, and how we understand mental illness.
Dec 8, 2025
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