Archive - The Microdose

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

8 hrs ago • jane c. hu

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 • jane c. hu

Psychedelic Mad Men: 5 Questions for public health researcher Olivia Marcus

Marcus discusses the rise of psychedelic advertisements.

Jan 12 • Shayla Love

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 • jane c. hu

Healing From Healing: 5 Questions for medical anthropologist Adam Aronovich

Aronovich discusses his Instagram account that collects outlandish videos of wellness culture.

Jan 5 • Shayla Love

December 2025

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 • jane c. hu

Little people hallucinations: 5 Questions with mushroom researcher Colin Domnauer

Domnauer discusses a mushroom that reliably produces fairy-tale-like visions.

Dec 15, 2025 • Shayla Love

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 • jane c. hu

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 • Shayla Love

Federal government announces new funding for psychedelics; New Jersey advances psilocybin bill and New Mexico holds first public psilocybin…

Plus: New paper argues scientists should probe psychedelics’ bond with neuroreceptors beyond serotonin, and Longevity influencer livestreams shrooms…

Dec 5, 2025 • jane c. hu

Psychedelic Church vs. State of Utah

Plus, Sex, Psychedelics and Consent

Dec 3, 2025

Getting help with ketamine addiction: 5 questions for Ket-a-Grip’s founder

Jillian discusses a 12-step group dedicated to ketamine addiction.

Dec 1, 2025 • Shayla Love

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