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FDA issues priority vouchers for psychedelics developers Compass Pathways, Usona Institute, and Transcend Therapeutics
Plus: Trump withdraws nomination of Casey Means for Surgeon General. Will Texas ban in-home ketamine? And what is 2C-B?
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What do police think about psychedelic therapy? 5 Questions for psychologist Alexandra Hopkins
Hopkins discusses her work on the perspectives of military and law enforcement.
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Trump’s psychedelics executive order and how Texas inspired (and may benefit from) it
Editor’s Note: Join me in welcoming Robin Berghaus, an Austin, Texas based freelance journalist, audio and documentary producer whose work has appeared…
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Mixing antidepressants and psychedelics: 5 Questions for psychopharmacologist Kelan Thomas
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Can an LLM get high? 5 Questions with clinical neuroscientist Ziv Ben-Zion
Ben-Zion discusses how artificial intelligence mimics the psychedelic experience.
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Scientists test if ketamine has antidepressant effects under anesthesia; France is the first to approve IV ketamine for severe suicidal…
Plus: New research on the role of trip sitters; Various state bills move to expand psychedelics research and access
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Can you kill a bad trip?: 5 Questions for emergency physician Gregory Yates
Yates discusses experimental attempts to end a psychedelic trip early.
Apr 13
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Scientists engineered plants to produce five psychedelics at once; ‘Mega-analysis’ shows brain responses to five psychedelics share a…
Plus: Texas moves forward with ibogaine trials without a drug company partner; Scientists flag risks associated with psychiatric hospitalization…
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Carne de Dios
An excerpt of a novel by the Mexican writer Homero Aridjis
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Two psilocybin bills progress in Massachusetts and Washington’s King County passes deprioritization proposal; New Mexico psilocybin program…
Plus: AbbVie-acquired psychedelics company raises $60 million; Tracking psychoactive use via European wastewater; and selection bias in psychedelic…
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Project Mind Control: 5 Questions with historian John Lisle
Lisle discusses what recently-discovered documents reveal about the CIA’s top-secret project.
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