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California psychedelics legalization bill advances, Kentucky to spend $42 million on ibogaine research; DC’s psychedelics lobbyists; Is…
Plus: Winnipeg shroom dispensary raided, and psilocybin for irritable bowel syndrome
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May 2023
UK Members of Parliament call for psilocybin rescheduling, a new psychedelics Action Group in the European Parliament, and was Australia’s…
Plus: Challenges for psychedelic trip-sitters and bills pass in Minnesota and Colorado
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Psychedelics for racial trauma: 5 Questions for radio journalist Tonya Mosley
Mosley discusses the new season of her podcast Truth Be Told and what it’s been like to weave her own stories into her reporting.
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Learning from reverse-engineering psychedelics, the murky future of ketamine telehealth, and who do psychonauts trust?
Plus: Mitigating the impacts of 280E, and Connecticut and Salem, MA relax psilocybin possession laws
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Developing guidance for psychedelic therapy: 5 Questions for the APA’s Lynn Bufka
Bufka discusses how the APA and its members are responding to psychedelics’ rising popularity, and how the organization makes decisions about issuing…
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Oregon’s first licensed psilocybin service center and next steps on a data privacy bill; a review of psychedelic trials finds poor blinding
Plus: Psilocybin bills pass in Washington and Arizona; and the semantics of “magic mushrooms”
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Prozac Lessons: 5 Questions for drug historian David Herzberg
Herzberg discusses the history of “mind medicines” like Prozac and parallels between antidepressants and psychedelics.
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American Medical Association assigns billing code for psychedelic therapy; Can psychedelics alter colorblindness?; How should Oregon collect…
Plus: Clarifying “decriminalization,” and The State of Psychedelics
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“When the policy gets ahead of the science, it's challenging”: 5 Questions for bioethicist Amy McGuire
McGuire discusses the challenges ahead in regulating psychedelics and creating data-informed psychedelic policy.
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April 2023
What’s happening inside the brain on LSD? Colorado psychedelics legislation flies through state Senate, and Oregon gets its first licensed…
Plus: An active placebo, and highlights and challenges in psychedelic business
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Guts, brains, and psychedelics: 5 Questions for psychiatrist John Kelly
Kelly discusses the psilocybiome and how it could inform psychedelic-assisted therapy.
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The latest in Colorado, new study suggests single psilocybin session could reduce depressive symptoms in cancer patients, and MindMed…
Plus: The Latest in Oregon and The State of Psychedelics
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