by Contributing Author | Ayahuasca, Psychedelics, Psychedelics & Health, Science
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Our collaborator Dr Jordi Riba presented these ground-breaking results at the Interdisciplinary Conference on Psychedelics Research last week in Amsterdam. The results are, as yet, unpublished but you can have a sneak peek at the...
by Contributing Author | LSD, Psychedelics, Science
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The first controlled LSD study in over 40 years was recently published in the Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease. The study consisted of 12 participants who suffer from “anxiety, depression, as well as unresolved family and...
by Contributing Author | Other, Psychedelics, Psychedelics & Health
It’d be a monumental leap forward in the ongoing agony and ecstasy of treating wartime post-traumatic stress with psychedelics. They’d be somewhat unlikely partners, sure, but to hear that the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies has...
by Spirit Molecule | Ayahuasca, Psychedelics, Psychedelics & Health
A psychedelic drink used for centuries in healing ceremonies is now attracting the attention of biomedical scientists as a possible treatment for depression. Researchers from Brazil last month published results from the first clinical test of a potential therapeutic...
by Spirit Molecule | Cannabis, Psychedelics, Psychedelics & Health
A group of medical researchers from St. George’s University of London were commissioned by the federal government for the purpose of definitively proving that cannabis has “no medicinal value”; however, they seem to have proven just the opposite. The results of the...
by Spirit Molecule | LSD, Psychedelics
A remarkable 1963 study [pdf] from the Archives of Opthalmology in which 24 blind participants took LSD to see if they could experience visual hallucinations. Those blind from a very early age (younger than2 years old) did not report visual hallucinations, probably...
by Spirit Molecule | LSD, Psychedelics, Science
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Dr. Robin Carhart-Harris has boldly gone where no man has gone in over 40 years: he is the first person in the UK to have legally administered doses of LSD to human volunteers since the Misuse of Drugs Act of 1971. Dr....
by Contributing Author | LSD, Psychedelics, Science
Scientists at Imperial College have been experimenting with the hallucinogenic drug to explore hopes that it could be used to treat depression. But the doc in charge of the experiment said hordes of students wanted to take part. We had a battering of students who...
by Spirit Molecule | Cannabis, Psychedelics, Psychedelics & Health, Science
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]For some bizarre reason, there is not a state in the US that recognizes Autism as a qualifying condition to use cannabis medically, except in the case of California where doctors can prescribe cannabis to anyone they feel will...
by Contributing Author | LSD, Psychedelics, Psychedelics & Health, Science
MAPS has recently completed the first double-blind, placebo-controlled study of the therapeutic use of LSD in human beings since the early 1970s. LSD (lysergic acid diethylamide) is a semi-synthetic compound first developed in 1938 by Dr. Albert Hofmann at the Sandoz...
by Spirit Molecule | Psilocybin, Psychedelics, Psychedelics & Health, Science
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]After the wild breakout of Psychedelics during the 1960’s the ‘war on drugs’ put an immediate stop to any sort of research in to Psychedelics, potentially cutting off the human race from potential cures to many of...
by Spirit Molecule | Other, Psychedelics, Salvia Divinorum, Science
Salvia divinorum is a perennial Mexican herb from the labiate (mint) family (Epling & Jativa, 1962) that has a history of use chiefly for the initiation and facilitation of shamanic practice among such peoples as the Mazatec Indians of the Sierra Mazateca region...
by Contributing Author | Cannabis, Psychedelics, Psychedelics & Health, Science
Another study is adding evidence to the case for the treatment and prevention of Alzheimer’s disease with the compounds in cannabis. Research published in the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease this September “strongly suggest that THC [the main active ingredient in...
by Contributing Author | LSD, Psychedelics, Psychedelics & Health, Science
Scientific study often opens new doors of discovery—but sometimes it reopens doors closed long ago. On Tuesday, experimental psychiatrists in Santa Cruz, California published results from the first controlled medical trial of LSD in over 40 years. The study, published...
by Spirit Molecule | Other, Psychedelics, Salvia Divinorum, Science
In what is believed to be the first controlled human study of the effects of salvinorin A, the active ingredient in Salvia divinorum, a controversial new hallucinogen featured widely on YouTube and other Internet sites, Johns Hopkins researchers report that the...
by Contributing Author | Cannabis, Psychedelics, Psychedelics & Health, Science
First it was a cough. Then it was bronchitis. Then it was time to say goodbye to Michelle Aldrich. The year 2011 was supposed to be a good one for the 66-year-old. That June, she and her husband, Michael, were feted with a lifetime achievement award by High Times...
