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Psilocybin vs Nicotine Patches: What a New Study Reveals About Quitting Smoking
Growing evidence supports the use of psychedelics in the treatment of substance use disorders (SUDs). These compounds may be uniquely positioned to intervene across multiple levels of addiction pathology, with emergin...
Senate Bill S.4031 Signals a Federal Turn Toward Psychedelic Medicine
Senate bill S.4031 would establish VA Centers of Excellence to study psychedelic therapies — including MDMA, psilocybin, ibogaine, and ketamine — for veterans with PTSD, TBI, depression, and chronic pain. The bipartis...
Psychedelic Culture 2026
Psychedelic Culture 2026 is Chacruna Institute’s annual three-day conference bringing together researchers, Indigenous leaders, healers, clinicians, activists, and community members from around the world for one of th...
A Trip to Sobriety: Psychedelics and Addiction
Growing evidence suggests psychedelics could help treat addiction – particularly from tobacco, alcohol, and opioids – for which effective treatments remain limited. The post A Trip to Sobriety: Psychedelics and Addict...
Federal Support for U.S. Psychedelic Research Accelerates 5-MeO-DMT Clinical Trials
The rescheduling of cannabis by executive order and the FDA's acceleration of research into potential 5-MeO-DMT therapies reflects expanded federal support for clinical investigations into psychedelic-assisted treatme...
Dolphins, LSD, and floating tanks : 5 Questions for filmmaker Courtney Stephens
Stephens discusses her documentary on the controversial scientist John C. Lilly.
Should You Microdose Alone or With a Guide?
PLUS, $1000 trip sitters, new psychedelic mushroom species, and blue lotus flower. [...] Read More... The post Should You Microdose Alone or With a Guide? appeared first on DoubleBlind Mag.
The Moment I Realized My Life Was Pre-Written
This week’s Sunday Insider: The morning after a Psychedelic journey, I became convinced my life had been written before I ever lived it.
Opening the Heart with San Pedro
Oli Genn-Bash describes his first San Pedro cactus ceremony in Cusco, Peru, as a gentle yet transformative psychedelic experience that, despite its subtlety, facilitated deep emotional release and long-lasting insight...
Psilocybin seems to help tobacco smokers quit; Scientists discover a new species of psychedelic mushroom in Africa
Plus: Minnesota lawmakers advance psilocybin-assisted therapy bill and Mississippi lawmakers approve ibogaine research bill; Psychedelics with exercise to treat major depressive disorder?
Life Gives You a Menu. Psychedelics Make You Ask Who Wrote It.
Welcome to the Psychedelic Blog. I write about the impact of Psychedelics on Grieving, Relationships, Culture & Death.
Inside a Johns Hopkins Study Giving Psilocybin to Lyme Patients
Here's what researchers found after chronic Lyme patients received two doses of psilocybin. [...] Read More... The post Inside a Johns Hopkins Study Giving Psilocybin to Lyme Patients appeared first on DoubleBlind Mag.
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Marcuse on Psychedelics and Revolutionary Consciousness
Herbert Marcuse argued that Western capitalism has conditioned people to desire consumerist “false needs” and proposed a radical “Great Refusal” and shift in consciousness – potentially aided by psychedelics – as a pa...