The Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) has been at the center of psychedelic science and advocacy for nearly four decades. From MDMA-assisted therapy trials to policy reform campaigns, the nonprofit has helped steer psychedelics from the underground into mainstream conversation. Now, as it approaches its 40th anniversary, MAPS is turning the page on leadership […] <p>The post Meet MAPS’ New Co-Executive Directors: Betty Aldworth and Ismail Lourido Ali first appea...| High Times
The Rev. Hunt Priest, the founder of a society dedicated to helping clergy integrate the use of psychedelic drugs into pastoral care, has been deposed from the ministry of the Episcopal Church by Bishop Frank Logue of Georgia. An August 5 accord announcing the action concludes a 13-month Title IV process resulting from a complaint filed by the Rev. Joe Welker, a Presbyterian pastor who worked with Priest at Ligare, a nonprofit agency that aims to educate faith communities about the largely...| The Roys Report
New studies reveal how psychedelics can reorganize brain function, offering stronger, longer-lasting benefits than conventional approaches.| The Debrief
I tiptoed through a creaky hallway overlaid with vinyl, careful as if not to wake sleeping parents. Sock-footed in solidarity, the sixty or so people inside The Berkeley Alembic filled a humble conference room already buzzing. Five minutes late, I slid into a chair just as the contact high hit—was I being possessed? It was […] <p>The post Adventures in Berkeley’s Psychedelic Wunderground first appeared on High Times.</p>| High Times
Integration, in the context of psychedelics, is typically defined as the process of making sense of psychedelic experiences and applying the insights contained therein to one’s everyday life. But how does this definition of integration apply to traumatic psychedelic experiences? For those unfortunate to undergo them, they can make immediate sense (in terms of why… The post What Does Integration Look Like for Traumatic Psychedelic Experiences? appeared first on Sam Woolfe.| Sam Woolfe
The DEA requested that federal health officials conduct a medical review of psilocybin - a watershed moment for psychedelic medicine. The post Historic Move Could Transform Psilocybin Access for Terminally Ill Patients appeared first on HealingMaps.| HealingMaps
Doctors predicted six months of inpatient rehabilitation, but Hall walked out in six weeks. His secret? Psychedelic mushrooms. The post Aspen Skier’s Remarkable Recovery: Could Psychedelics Transform Brain Injury Treatment? appeared first on HealingMaps.| HealingMaps
Reunion Neuroscience announced positive results from its RECONNECT Phase 2 clinical trial evaluating postpartum depression.| HealingMaps
Connect with your higher self with Mama Dose’s organic psilocybin products. The post Finding Your Path to Mental Clarity with Mama Dose appeared first on Cannabis Now.| Cannabis Now
Under the title “The Science & History of Psychedelics,” Bouso explored the neurobiological basis for the use of psychedelics, their history, and the challenges posed by their integration into the Western biomedical model. The post The Integration of Knowledge in Healthcare Systems appeared first on ICEERS.| ICEERS
When participating in a psychedelic session becomes legal – in the form of psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy or a retreat – this doesn’t open up this experience to everyone equally. In the psychedelic industry, there remains the issue of access inequality. Legal, regulated psychedelic sessions are typically expensive. The cost of psychedelic therapy differs depending on the… The post Barriers to Healing: On Psychedelic Medicine and Access Inequality appeared first on Sam Woolfe.| Sam Woolfe
Catch up on the biggest cannabis and psychedelic news from last week, including a speed-rolling championship, celebrity dispensary burglary, major stock movers, and Texas’s historic $50M psychedelic research bill.| Cannabis & Tech Today
Reggie Harris speaks on psychedelics, spirituality, and reclaiming space for Black voices in the growing psychedelic movement.| Cannabis & Tech Today
Why are Americans traveling to Costa Rica to drink a hallucinogenic brew? Kinga Philipps joined them to find out.| InsideHook
From DMT vapes to MDMA gummies, psilocybin mushroom chocolate bars, and LSD microdots, an expanding range of psychedelic Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) products is becoming increasingly available in the U.S. and Europe. The post The Booming Market For Psychedelic Consumer Packaged Goods first appeared on Lucid News. The post The Booming Market For Psychedelic Consumer Packaged Goods appeared first on Lucid News.| Lucid News
In part 2 of our series on campaign finance, new complaints filed by former staffers of the Massachusetts Yes on 4 psychedelics initiative to the Massachusetts Office of Campaign and Political Finance appear to contradict assertions from a senior campaign advisor that payments were done in accordance with state law. The post Details of Alleged MA Initiative Campaign Finance Violations In New OCPF Complaints first appeared on Lucid News. The post Details of Alleged MA Initiative Campaign Finan...| Lucid News
The state of Arizona has allocated $10 million in funding for ibogaine research as part of the 2026 fiscal year budget.| Lucid News - Psychedelics, Consciousness Technology, and the Future of Wellness
This podcast features a thought-provoking conversation between host Minter Dial and guest John Vervaeke, exploring the concept of meaning in modern life. Vervaeke, a cognitive scientist and philosopher, discusses the 'meaning crisis' - a widespread sense of disconnection and lack of purpose in society. He delves into topics such as the importance of wisdom, the nature of self, and the role of spirituality in addressing this crisis. The dialogue touches on historical perspectives, contemporary...| Minter Dial
PharmaTher has secured FDA approval for its ketamine product KETARx, which is specifically for surgical pain management. The post PharmaTher Achieves Historic Ketamine FDA Approval After Third Attempt appeared first on HealingMaps.| HealingMaps
In this first installment of our new column "The Doseier," where psychonauts review psychedelic products, our intrepid columnist Ethan Parker samples several psilocybin edibles and evaluates their usefulness for microdosing.| Lucid News - Psychedelics, Consciousness Technology, and the Future of Wellness
California Governor Gavin Newsom has said that his state is "all in" on expanding psychedelic therapy access.| HealingMaps
Reflections and hard-won lessons from a decade exploring over 20 psychedelic compounds.| Gavin Ray Blog
In small study, psilocybin, the active compound in 'magic mushrooms,' increased life satisfaction among patients with life-threatening cancer| The Hub
A single dose of psilocybin may offer lasting relief from depression in cancer patients according to a new study.| HealingMaps
The Australian government has announced that Spravato will be added to the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme starting July 1.| HealingMaps
When it comes to voting on psychedelics, there’s no messing with Texas. In this first column in the new series “The Psychedelic State(s) of America," Noah Daly and Jack Gorsline explore the roots of Texas' fast-moving psychedelic policy reform efforts, what the Texas Ibogaine Initiative aims to accomplish, and the future of psychedelic access in Texas beyond the scope of the state legislature.| Lucid News - Psychedelics, Consciousness Technology, and the Future of Wellness
The writer Erik Davis offers tactics for how to keep it together, navigate the weirdness, access creative capacity and respond to what the moment demands without losing our minds.| Lucid News - Psychedelics, Consciousness Technology, and the Future of Wellness
Paul Ryder returns to his ancestral homelands in the British Isles to connect with the spirits of the land and his warrior heritage.| Lucid News - Psychedelics, Consciousness Technology, and the Future of Wellness
A case report on two patients with multiple sclerosis has sparked hope, caution, and calls to expand the limited research data on ibogaine as a possible treatment for MS.| Lucid News - Psychedelics, Consciousness Technology, and the Future of Wellness
Speakers at the 2025 Psychedelic Culture conference focused on the collective resilience of international plant medicine communities while noting that two presenters were not permitted to enter the U.S. and others were denied visas.| Lucid News - Psychedelics, Consciousness Technology, and the Future of Wellness
In the first study of its kind, nearly 600 individuals shared how psychedelics impact intimacy and sexual expression.| HealingMaps
Hendrix tripped on it. Hofmann praised it. How Owsley's ultra-pure LSD supplied 5 million trips and fueled a cultural revolution.| Not So Profound (beta)
Dive into a spine-chilling story where 8 people embarked on an unintended psychedelic voyage because of an LSD-cocaine mishap.| Not So Profound (beta)
Today, I'd like to share with you one of the most fascinating & interesting case studies that might involve DMT. I say might because some of you got a little roiled up when I said No, there's no evidence for DMT being produced in your pineal| Not So Profound (beta)
Rather than unpacking the actual causes of Lykos Therapeutics' disastrous Phase 3 trials and FDA rejection, The New York Times produced a work of fictitious propaganda that prioritizes corporate interests over public health. The post Correcting the Record: Addressing The New York Times’ Deceptive Coverage of Psymposia appeared first on Psymposia.| Psymposia
In response to the The New York Times February 4 article, "How a Leftist Activist Group Helped Torpedo a Psychedelic Therapy," Psymposia requested corrections to numerous errors and false accusation| Psymposia
"Therapy is the treadmill...Mushrooms is this cold bucket of water," that provided profound realizations about his childhood.| HealingMaps
The Department of Defense just gave the University of Texas a $4.9M grant to study MDMA to treat PTSD in veterans groups.| HealingMaps
The second annual Psychedelics as Medicine Conference will gather influential researchers and policy makers in Reykjavik, Iceland for a two-day conference.| Lucid News - Psychedelics, Consciousness Technology, and the Future of Wellness
WSJ reporter Katherine Bindley breaks down the continued mainstreaming of psychedelic drug use in Silicon Valley.| HealingMaps
A Psychonaut's Guide To Staying Sane and Empowered| Lucid News - Psychedelics, Consciousness Technology, and the Future of Wellness
Another state to add to the list? A task force in Minnesota has advocated for legalizing psychedelic mushrooms.| HealingMaps
Recent studies are finding that drugs such as LSD and psilocybin can help to alleviate depression, anxiety and addiction—and may have profound things to teach us about how the mind works The post The New Science of Psychedelics appeared first on Michael Pollan.| Michael Pollan
Therapist Charles Wininger offers an elder's perspective on how to approach the election and its aftermath from a psychedelic point of view.| Lucid News - Psychedelics, Consciousness Technology, and the Future of Wellness
Massachusetts voters consider The Natural Psychedelic Substances Act which would legalize the possession and cultivation of certain psychedelics.| Lucid News - Psychedelics, Consciousness Technology, and the Future of Wellness
In part one of a series of articles on ibogaine clinics, researcher Leonard Pickard looks at the history and treatment protocols of clinics in Mexico, Brazil and Portugal.| Lucid News - Psychedelics, Consciousness Technology, and the Future of Wellness
I wrote in June that I’d done an interview with Justin Brierley for his documentary-style podcast, The Surprising Rebirth of Belief in God. There is a book by the same name which I discussed …| Phil's Scribblings
The FDA has rejected Lykos Therapeutics’ New Drug Application for MDMA-assisted therapy for PTSD and requested an additional Phase 3 study.| Lucid News - Psychedelics, Consciousness Technology, and the Future of Wellness
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Ever wondered how much you could earn by participating in a psychedelic clinical trial? Let's break down the potential earnings| HealingMaps
Veterans deserve the highest quality treatment for PTSD. It’s unacceptable and dangerous to use veterans as guinea pigs for a big pharma profit grab without resolving safety and efficacy concerns.| Psymposia
Jack and I discussed a number of topics, beginning with how science and philosophy might be demarcated. I suggest that science, born from natural philosophy, relies on metaphysical presuppositions …| Footnotes2Plato
New Studies on Magic Mushrooms, DMT Infusions, and Microdosing LSD. The post Psychedelic Research Potpourri appeared first on Project CBD.| Project CBD
A clinical psychologist and psychiatrist involved in MAPS’ phase 3 MDMA trials weigh in on the ethical and ontological challenges of psychedelic psychotherapy. Here is a rough transcript of t…| Footnotes2Plato
A short blog post for a change, with the goal to preempt expected hype around what is basically a null-finding: Nature Medicine just published a new paper on using Ketamine for treatment-resistant depression. I don’t have the 4-6 hours it takes me to vet a paper in detail (requires reading the statistical analysis plan, compare... Read more »| Eiko Fried
Existential philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre took the psychedelic mescaline seeking existential truths, but found himself haunted by stalking crabs instead.| Not So Profound (beta)
As result of a commentary we wrote, Jama Psychiatry recently published a correction of a serious error in a 2023 paper on treating bipolar depression with psilocybin (together with Ioana Cristea and Florian Naudet). This correction included correcting the title of the paper itself. In this blog, I’ll very briefly discuss the core issue in... Read more »| Eiko Fried
A Conversation with Sam Harris - Deconstructing Yourself| Deconstructing Yourself
A 2022 study on psilocybin has received a lot of criticism by the scientific community, but authors or journal have not corrected the record.| Eiko Fried
The founder of Fireside Project takes a 10-day ibogaine voyage.| Lucid News - Psychedelics, Consciousness Technology, and the Future of Wellness
Uncover the captivating tale & enigmatic legacy of Howard Thurman and his role in a pioneering psilocybin study that shaped psychedelic research.| Not So Profound (beta)
Dr. Katherine MacLean discusses what psychedelics and meditation have in common and when these substances might be of benefit.| How to Train a Happy Mind
Federal cannabis patient uses ketamine to escape from the Land of Pain.| Project CBD
It was a cold spring day in 2019 that I found myself in Zandvoort, a quaint seaside suburb just 30 minutes outside of Amsterdam, to participate in a 3-day Synthesis legal, high-end psilocybin truffle retreat in a 100-year old renovated church. Even though my history with psilocybin mushrooms spans two decades, my magic truffle journey…| EntheoNation
Using psychedelics for addiction treatment is on the rise. But these substances are no silver bullet – learn how treating addiction with psychedelics really works.| EntheoNation
With first-hand insights from coaches and therapists, discover the top challenges for those building a career in psychedelic integration.| EntheoNation
What impact do psychedelics have on the area of the brain that's associated with mind-wandering and rumination – the default mode network?| EntheoNation
Adopting harm reduction is essential for every psychedelic practitioner. In this article, we dive into the key strategies to do just that.| EntheoNation
Ever wondered how psychedelic integration circles work? Here we dive into what they are, what benefits they have, and how to start your own.| EntheoNation
The concept of set and setting has been around for millennia. What does it mean and why is it so important for psychedelic experiences?| EntheoNation
If you're seeking psychedelic integration support, it's vital to do your due diligence to make sure the provider you choose is right for you.| EntheoNation
Providing psychedelic integration support is no simple task. Here are the fundamentals that all integration coaches should have.| EntheoNation
Psychedelic integration support can come in many forms. In this article, we dive into the main differences between coaches and therapists.| EntheoNation
Psychedelic-assisted therapy is growing in popularity due to its therapeutic potential. How does it work? What kind of results have we seen?| EntheoNation
There are thousands of legal psychedelic retreats worldwide that can provide you with a safe guided psychedelic experience or ceremony.| EntheoNation
Manesh Girn discusses the latest scientific perspectives on how psychedelics can help create lasting healing and transformation.| EntheoNation
A new psychedelic salon in Berkeley seeks to establish a collegial, non-commercial, intergenerational community that harkens back to old-school psychedelic community discussions.| Lucid News - Psychedelics, Consciousness Technology, and the Future of Wellness
Learn trailblazing insights on how to heal yourself and others using psychedelics from an old-school pioneer and unsung hero of psychedelic therapy.| Not So Profound (beta)
Studies claim psychedelics provide effective treatments against depression. Here I show you why this is not the case.| Eiko Fried
The Church of Psilomethoxin now admits that its claims about psilomethoxin are solely based on faith. But how strong are the religious convictions of the Church?| Psymposia
Psymposia’s investigation into the Church of Psilomethoxin (CoP) turns to the Church’s claims that it’s currently “scientifically impossible” to test for psilomethoxin. Psychedelic chemist D| Psymposia
Which psychedelic is best for a complete newbie interested in making their first foray into the world of psychedelics? We think it's 2C-B.| Not So Profound (beta)