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We kicked off the start of our ongoing livestreams with the announcement of Psymposia’s 501(c)(3) non-profit status, discussions of corporadelic dynamics, fond memories of helping people learn how to extract psychedelic drugs during an Ivy League University’s psychedelic conference, and a whole bunc
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Neşe Devenot shares William Leonard Pickard’s description of his side of the Silo bust in “The Rose of Paracelsus.”
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William Leonard Pickard, alleged to have created 90% of the world’s supply of LSD, was just granted compassionate release from a double life sentence.
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Christian Angermayer’s story flip flops, depending on where you hear him tell it. Though, he always points out that it was somewhere “legal” and, most importantly, not because of any struggle with depression.
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David Nickles runs through his critique of a dominant narrative within the psychedelic culture, the narrative of “mainstreaming” psychedelics, and his concerns on the political and economic landscape that surrounds the “mainstreaming” of psychedelics.
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Psychedelics are becoming increasingly mainstream, as a host of other dire sociopolitical issues are reaching a global fever pitch. Much of the public discourse within the ‘Psychedelic Community’, as well as the cursory findings addressed to the ‘Straight Community’, tend to fall somewhere on the sp
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The role of psychedelics within global society appears to be up for grabs. Tech executives, entrepreneurs, and investors are exploring psychedelics as tools for increasing productivity and profits while the military industrial complex appears poised to deploy psychedelic therapies as they see fit. C
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As new developments in sanctioned psychedelic research continue to drive increasingly positive mainstream publicity about psychedelic plants and compounds, governmental restrictions have relegated significant research efforts to the shadows of the criminalised underground.
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Poetry (i.e. experimental uses of language) represents crucial data about the content of psychedelic experiences within the context of scientific research. Neşe calls for the need to develop psychedelic studies in the humanities since the discourse of science is essential but insufficient for explor
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Linguistic theory and poetic interpretation are as crucial as chemical analysis for analyzing data within psychedelic science, highlighting the importance of scholarly collaboration across traditional disciplinary boundaries.
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The psychedelic resurgence has crafted and perpetuated a number of memes that have subsequently become embedded in the fabric of public psychedelic discourse. These ideas are frequently treated as truisms with little to no discussion about their validity or legitimacy. Despite a lack of structural a
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Nick Sand’s talk at the 2016 Ozora Festival.