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2025-12-19 Psychedelics Today

Psilocybe Mushroom Pickers in Britain

I was taught to identify and locate the Psilocybe semilanceata mushroom, or Liberty Cap, as a teenager around the turn of the millennium. In those days in Britain it was common knowledge passed down from older people ...

2025-12-19 Chacruna

The Future of Ayahuasca Under Dispute in Brazil

Brazil’s ayahuasca regulation reveals deep contradictions: institutional churches are protected, while Indigenous practices face bureaucratic exclusion. Legal ambiguity, cultural appropriation, commercialization, and ...

Policy
2025-12-19 The Microdose (Berkeley)

AtaiBeckley patents R-MDMA formulation, and California issues a shrooms edibles warning

Plus: The State of Psychedelics, and Difficulties following naturalistic psychedelic use associated with having had adverse childhood experiences

2025-12-19 Tripsitter (Substack)

Why “Stronger Acid” Is a Dangerous Lie (NBOMe’s)

Same blotter. Very different chemistry. NBOMes aren’t acid — and the margin for error is razor-thin.

2025-12-19 The Psychedelic Blog (Substack)

Predictions for Psychedelics in 2026

Welcome to the Psychedelic Blog. I write about the impact of Psychedelics on Grieving, Relationships, Culture & Death.

2025-12-19 DoubleBlind Magazine

Is There a Link Between Endogenous DMT and Schizophrenia?

New research reopens an old question about DMT, the brain, and psychosis. [...] Read More... The post Is There a Link Between Endogenous DMT and Schizophrenia? appeared first on DoubleBlind Mag.

2025-12-19 Breaking Convention (Substack)

Woohoo! Dates for BC 2026 and 2027 🎉

Thinking ahead

2025-12-19 Lucid News

Syndelic Saga: The Fight for Psychedelic Product Integrity 

Consumer products marketed as containing psilocybin or other psychedelics are often mislabeled, and may instead contain potentially harmful synthetic compounds that evade fragmented regulatory frameworks. The post Syn...

2025-12-19 Chacruna

Social Media and Content Production Internship (OPEN)

Role: Social Media and Content Production InternshipLocation: Remote with opportunities for travel to conferences/eventsReports to:  Communications Officer Job Type: Unpaid InternshipDuration: 1 year Ho...

2025-12-18 MAPS

Rescheduling Cannabis Doesn’t End Prohibition’s Harms…

The executive order to reschedule cannabis marks a symbolic victory and a recalibration of decades of federal misclassification. Reclassifying cannabis as a Schedule III substance is a long-overdue acknowledgment of i...

2025-12-17 Microdose (industry)

Psychedelics in 2025: A Year of Proof, Pullback, and a Clearer Path Forward

If 2024 was the year the psychedelic field learned how hard “approval ready” really is, 2025 was the year it began behaving accordingly. The past twelve months were less about spectacle and more about structure. The i...

Research
2025-12-17 DoubleBlind Magazine

Why the Pineal Gland Became a Spiritual Fixation

In today's dispatch, we're unpacking what we actually know about the pineal gland. [...] Read More... The post Why the Pineal Gland Became a Spiritual Fixation appeared first on DoubleBlind Mag.

2025-12-15 The Microdose (Berkeley)

Little people hallucinations: 5 Questions with mushroom researcher Colin Domnauer

Domnauer discusses a mushroom that reliably produces fairy-tale-like visions.

2025-12-15 DoubleBlind Magazine

Psychedelic Art Is Having Its Museum Moment

Psychedelic art is no longer being relegated to the underground. PLUS, music for psychedelic therapy, Ayana Iyi, and DMT vape pens. [...] Read More... The post Psychedelic Art Is Having Its Museum Moment appeared firs...

2025-12-15 Lucid News

New Mexico to Accelerate Its Launch of Therapeutic Psilocybin Access

New Mexico health officials announced plans to launch the state’s medical psilocybin therapy program by the end of December 2026 - a full year ahead of the legislative deadline. The post New Mexico to Accelerate Its L...