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Chicago could become largest city to Decriminalize Entheogenic Plants
Chicago’s Committee on Health and Human Relations unanimously passed (50-0) a resolution October 16 to decriminalize entheogenic plants and fungi.
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What the heck happened to Reality Sandwich?
Reality Sandwich was sold to a group called Delic Corp. Now there’s a lawsuit.
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#4 – Psilocybin Incorporated
The crew recaps the Economic Models for the Expansion of Psychedelics panel at the Horizons Perspectives on Psychedelics conference in New York. They also discuss the corrosive effects that Compass Pathways, a for-profit psilocybin startup has had in psychedelic science and research.
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#3 – Live From Brooklyn: The Set and Setting of the Psychedelic Renaissance is Capitalism
Live from Brooklyn, New York, the team discusses psychedelic science unfolding in a capitalist culture and deconstructs the ‘Standard Story’ of psychedelic medicalization. They also talk about incoming corporations seeking to capitalize on psychedelic medicines, and ongoing decriminalization efforts
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An open letter to the newly founded Center for Psychedelic Research at Johns Hopkins
With the recent creation of the Center for Psychedelic and Consciousness Research at Johns Hopkins Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland, we must remember that, while industrialized medicine has never attempted to serve all people, institutional histories vary from one organization to the next.
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#2 – Decriminalization Now!
The historical record is clear – drug prohibition is directly connected to the prosecution of minorities: ethnic or political. Not only do we see a complete lack of scientific or evidentiary basis for prohibition and criminalization, we can see it has been a product of white supremacy, xenophobia, m
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#1 – We Hope Michael Pollan Changes His Mind
Michael Pollan thinks we’re not ready to decriminalize psilocybin, despite his media tour where he capitalized on the rising wave of psychedelic normalization. The team critically examines his New York Times op-ed where he urges caution, and why we think he’s wrong.
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Young People of Color As Leaders in The Movement To End the War on Drugs
How do you center the needs and perspectives of people of color in your activism—not because you want to fill a quota, but because the success of your work depends on it?
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Considerations for Engaging with Amazonian Ancestral Practices, People, and Places
If we truly believe in the positive transformational power of visionary plant experiences, we must support each other to make real social change happen, less this transformation stagnates at the individual level.
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Shipibo Women Healers on the Challenges and Opportunities of the Ayahuasca Boom
After the murder of a Peruvian healer in 2018, traditional healers, local political figures, and nonprofit allies gathered to address the complexities that come with the influx of foreigners seeking ayahuasca in the Amazon.
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Third Wave staff quits, writes open letter, over work environment created by founder Paul Austin
Eight staff have quit The Third Wave and issued an open statement.
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MDMA Expanded Access is almost here. What’s it all about?
The Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) submitted their MDMA PTSD expanded access protocol to the FDA on January 14, 2019.