Psychedelic drugs should be legally reclassified so that researchers can investigate their therapeutic potential
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Psychedelics: Lifting the veil
Dr. Robin Carhart-Harris – head of the Psychedelic Research Group at Imperial College London– has worked for the last few years on the brain effects of LSD, psilocybin (magic mushrooms) and MDMA, conducting some pioneering brain imaging studies of these drugs. Most recently…
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The new science of psychedelics
Writing in The New Statesman , Tim Martin says: “Seventy-five years ago, in April 1943, the research chemist Albert Hofmann did something distinctly out of scientific character. Impelled by what he later called a “peculiar presentiment”, he resolved to take a second look…
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How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics
Written by Michael Pollan (May 2018), the full sub-title of this book is “What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression and Transcendence. The publishers say: “When LSD was first discovered in the 1940s, it…
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Ayahuasca, Psilocybin and LSD
The actual title of this paper is “Antidepressive, anxiolytic, and antiaddictive effects of ayahuasca, psilocybin and lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD): a systematic review of clinical trials published in the last 25 years” … but that was a bit too long…
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