Category: good to know

Ibogaine
psychoactive | Mongabay | October 1
Gabon wants a fairer share in the boom of its native plant.

The munchies
psychoactive | ScienceDirect | October 1
Cannabis use frequency and appetite, eating behavior, and anthropometrics

Hotly debated
psychoactive | DoubleBlind | October 2
How psychedelics influence the brain an its functions.

Ketamine
psychoactive | The Guardian | October 2
Sexual harassment may go unnoticed.

Panacea
psychoactive | PsyPost | October 3
Psilocybin seems to help cure lingering Lyme disease symptoms.

Ultimate questions
psychoactive | DoubleBlind | October 3
The relationship between dying and tripping

Major depressve disorder
psychoactive | Translational Psychiatry | October 8
LSD treatment affects patients’ working memory-related brain function.

Data centers
eco | Bloomberg | October 9
Remote rural communities bear the cost of an uncertain future.

Chaos & order
psychoactive | Ars technica | October 10
A new look at brains transformed by psychedelics.

Panpsychism
science | Aeon | October 12
Is everything conscious?

Tripping
psychoactive | PsyPost | October 12
Initial brain entropy tracks later gains in insight and well-being.

Salvia divinorum
psychoactive | Psychedelic Press | October 15
The perennial changes perception, awareness, and one’s sense of reality.

Space-based solar energy
eco | Live Science | October 15
“We are fusion!” The race to harness the sun.

Infiltration
psychoactive | The Microdose | October 16
Oregon psilocybin centers under covert investigation

Cannabis
psychoactive | The Conversation | October 19
Twice as strong doesn’t equal twice as high.

Back in 1518
Dancing plague
psychoactive | Popular Science | October 20
Was it really caused by ergot contamination of rye bread?

Plasticity
psychoactive | PsyPost  October 23
Brain activity reaches a more fractal, complex state under LSD.

Towards Approval of PAT
psychoactive | Psychedelic Alpha | October 23
Norway, Germany, Switzerland, the UK, and Estonia at the TAIP conference, 2026.

Psylocybin
psychoactive | DoubleBlind | October 26
Can mushrooms alleviate Parkinson’s disease?

Less visible
eco | The Conversation | October 27
Greener often means subtracting rather than adding.

Every breath you take
science | Brighter | September 1
Each inhale and exhale may leave its own neural signature.

Bipolar disorder
psychoactive | UHN Research | September 2
Repeated infusions of Ketamine reduce symptoms without triggering mania or pychosis

Psilocybin
psychoactive | UHN Research | September 3
Lab study shows rapid neural growth

New Zealand
psychoactive | The Guardian | September 4
Drugs regulator approves use of MDMA to treat severe PTSD

Psilocin
psychoactive | Psy Post | September 5
The other active ingredient in psilocybin mushrooms has a higher tolerability.

Not ecstacy
psychoactive | DoubleBlind |  September 7
Don’t trust Trump on your pill!

Cannabis
psychoactive | PsyPost |  September 7
Nicotine craving seems to diminish when smoking weed.

Beetlejuice
psychoactive | Science |  September 9
First drug use documented around 20000 years ago

Psilocybin
psychoactive | PsyPost |  September 10
Chemotherapy-induced nerve damage prevented in new preclinical study.

Better two than one?
psychoactive | BPS Research Digest |  September 11
A new study investigates adding a second therapist into PAT sessions.

MDMA
psychoactive | PsyPost |  September 14
Couple therapy shows promise for treating PTSD and relationship distress.

The burried feminine
psychoactive | Psychedelic Press | September 15
Psychedelics and mysticism in Iran

Out of Africa
psychoactive | DoubleBlind | September 16
A forgotten history of psychedelics

R.I.P. Wendell Berry
culture | The Conversation | September 17
The American farmer, poet, novelist, and champion of nature won’t be forgotten.

Negative biases
psychoactive | PsyPost | September 20
Both psilocybin and antidepressants change how emotional information is proessed.

Psychedelics in ancient civilizations
psychoactive | The Microdose | September 21
5 questions for journalist Andrew Lawler

Double-blinding psychedelics
psychoactive | HCP live | September 22
Multi-drug approach to psilocybin trial masking

Nuclear fusion propulsion drives
science | Live science | September 28
We’re on the verge of a new era in space travel.

Under water
eco | Futurism | September 29
China sources solar enery in 10 meters depth

Conservation
psychoactive | The Microdose | August 3
Pilfering toads in the Sonoran desert

Tourism
psychoactive | The Conversation | August 3
Visiting Indigenous populations on their terms

5-MeO-DMT
psychoactive | Psychedelic Alpha | August 4
How smoking the toad became a thing

Religion
psychoactive | Ecstatic Integration | August 5
Threatening visions drive some ayahuasca users straight into the arms of Jesus.

Save the climate?
science | British Psychological Society | August 6
Wealthy people suffer from cognitive dissonance regarding their involvement.

PTSD
psychoactive | Psypost | August 7
Psilocybin sessions mostly take place in silence.

A new consortium
psychoactive | The Gobe and Mail | August 11
Ottawa invests CAD 24 million for cannabis brain research

Blind & blinder
psychoactive | Yale Journal on Regulation| August 11
Super placebo psychedelics

Ultra precise measurements
science | The Brighter Side | August 13
ETH Zurich researchers discover a possible fifth force of nature.

Nine VIQs around psychedelics
psychoactive | The Psychedelic Blog | August 14
Andrew M. Weisse addresses the issues that matter

Bronze age astronomy
science | Live Science | August 16
A hat worn by a sun cult’s leader speaks of his ability to predict eclipses

Ancestral intelligence
psychoactive | DoubleBlind | August 17
Guests with a message at the World Ayahuasca Forum in Girona

Om
psychoactive | The Spore Report | August 17
Why do people on psychedelics so often see Hindu deities

Turning points
science | Psypost | August 18
The structural organization of the brain changes over one’s life.

Gernany
psychoactive | Business of Cannabis | August 19
Feud over medical cannabis insurance descends into chaos.

Rite of passage
psychoactive | PsyPost | August 22
Preparations for and consequences of raves

RIP Dolly Parton
culture | The Conversation | August 26
“The last American everybody liked.” (Jelly Roll)

Manosphere
culture | Futurism | August 27
Tate brothers turn out to be frauds

Searching for wisdom
nature | High Country News | August 28
Talking to animals

Efficiency vs self-sufficiency
culture | Aeon | August 31
Architects around the world need to wake up.

Warmest congratulations!
psychoactive |  YouTube | July 1
Livestream on the occasion of the 95th birthday of Stanislav Grof

Psychedelic-Assisted therapy (PAT)
psychoactive | DoubeBlind | July 1
Synthetic psilocybin is not as effective as its natural counterpart.

Eight Swiss Cannabis Pilots
psychoactive | Business of Cannabis | July 1
Up to 5000 new participants may newly opt for home delivery

Spirit of the times
psychoactive | Altered States of America.| July 1
Robert Forte discusses MKULTRA, Tim Leary, progress with Philip Slater

Existentialism 101
culture | Aeon | July 2
Jean-Paul Sartre urges us to take responsability for ourselves.

A big deal
psychoactive | The Telegraph | July 4
My husband wants us to try psychedelics at 50.

An open mind
psychoactive | PsyPost | July 5
Classic psychedelics encourage healthy attitudes

Ibogaine
psychoactive | MAPS | July 7
MAPS publishes investigator’s brochure as a free, open-access resource.

Psilocybin
psychoactive | Cambridge Core | July 7
Pilot study shows further potential as a treatment for anorexia nervosa.

A rapid and durable profile emerges
psychoactive | Compass | July 7
Compass Pathways Announces Six-Month Data from Second Phase 3 Trial with synthetic psilocybin

Machine elves?
psychoactive | Nautilus | July 8
Lilliputian hallucinations under investigation

Endurance
psychoactive | Axios | July 9
A 500-mile run on psychedelics.

Moral rectitude
psychoactive | The Psychedelic Blog | July 10
Who gets to decide what ways of taking psychedelics are legitimate?

Machine elves II
psychoactive | The Microdose | July 13
In the mountains of Yunnan Jian Shou Qing leads to Lilliputian hallucinations

Respectable
psychoactive | Psychedelic Alpha | July 14
Eli Lilly acquires Atai Beckley for up to $3.8 billion, buying a stake in 5-MeO-DMT.

Brain change
psychoactive | Psychology Today | July 17
Psilocybin, 5-MeO-DMT, LSD and ketamine may work by promoting neuroplasticity

Memory
science | BPS | July 20
Patients who know they are receiving a placebo react even better.

How drugs work on the brain
psychoactive | Cornell Chronicle| July 23
The basic neurology of psychedelic research explained by Prof. David Nutt

Conspiracies
science | British Psychological Society | July 24
Fibbing or do you really believe what you say?

LSD
science | Psychology Today | July 25
Lasting changes in brain function occur quickly after a single LSD treatment.

Rabbinic trips
psychoactive | The Times of Israel| | July 26
New York exhibition shows Jewish psychedelic counterculture

PAT (Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy)
psychoactive | DoubleBlind | July 27
What if the music is the decisve healing factor?

Total solar eclipse
science | Live Science | Juy 27
Happening on 12 August, maybe in the sky near you…

Psilocybin
psychoactive | PsyPost | July 27
Compound to help protect skin against premature aging.

Who gets access?
psychoactive | The Microdose | June 1
Five questions with the author and mycophile Maria Pinto

Psilocybin therapy
psychoactive | Science Direct | June 1
A retrospective observational study.

Flagging
psychoactive | DoubleBlind | June 1
Safe psychedelic facilitators versus predators

Unwelcome?
psychoactive | Psychedelic Alpha | June 2
It seems this is not a good moment for psychedelic & psychiatry in the US.

Politically
psychoactive | Forbes | June 3
Psychedelics are gaining support

Driving under the influence
psychoactive | New South Wales Government (AUS) | June 4
Government to introduce new rules for medicinal cannabis patients

Feeding the grid
eco | Canary Media | June 4
A brillant idea: large parked EVs creating energy.for all

Psilocybin
psychoactive | Focal Points | June 6
Alzheimer’s patient regains speech and more after heroic dose.

Ancient Amazonia
culture | The Conversation | June 8
Great archeologicyl mysteries are burried in the depths of the forrest

5-MeO-DMT
psychoactive | Double Blind | June 8
Two experts talk about the world’s strongest psychedelic.

Gerontology
psychoactive | Berkeley Edu | June 8
Can psychedelics protect the aging brain?

The magic of it all
psychoactive | Ecstatic integration | June 12
Many psychonauts believe in charms, spells and curses

Mycorrhizal highways
science | The Conversation | June 12
Fungal networks are among the largest living organisms on Earth

Psilocybe cubensis
psychoactive | The Microdose | June 15
The history of the fungus named after a country that ignores it

PAT
psychoactive | CBC | June 16
Doctors to prescribe psilocybin to help deal with Canada’s mental health ‘epidemic’.

Home: office
culture | reasons to be cheerful | June 16
Across France, businesses open their offices to the homeless at night

No surprise
psychoactive | The Guardian | June 18
Commercialization, not legalization, drives up cannabis use.

Ageing
psychoactive | Futurism | June 21
Smoking weed protects your brain

Farmhouse to Oncology
culture | Aeon | June 25
The French fire healers working alongside medical specialists

Cannabis
psychoactive | Lafia Journal Of Scientific and Industrial Research | May 1
Anti-cancer activity of cannabis sativa stem extracts against colorectal cancer cell

Psychedelic culture
psychoactive | The Psychedelic Blog | May 1
What people take: where, when, and why?

Cannabis II
psychoactive | New York Times | May 2
Federal regulations on medical marijuana relaxed by US government

Who’s in charge here?
psychoactive | Sage Journals | May 2
Effects of Psychedelic Use on Authoritarian Attitudes

Mind bending
psychoactive | New York Times | May 3
How the Republicans came to adopt psychedelics

Left out
psychoactive | Stat | May 3
Racial minorities left behind by psychedelic revolution

Pretty illegal
psychoactive | American Journal of  Preventive Medicine | May 3
large numbers of  Americans microdose LSD, MDMA, psilocybin or cannabis

Orphines
psychoactive | Streamline | May 4.
What to know about this new and even more deadly opioid

Psilocybin
psychoactive | Medical Express | May 5
One dose physically changes the brain

A quadrillionth of a second
science | Live Science | May 6
Quantum batteries might last for years after charging for just a minute.

Moving mountains
nature | The Bright Side | May 6
Seismometers show the Matterhorn gently sways near its summit.

Parkinson’s disease
psychoactive | BioR_XiV | May 7
CBD considered “a highly specific, targeted molecule with a high potential for neuroprotective therapy”

Far out
psychoactive | Psychedelic Press | May 7
Timothy Leary and the Occult

Breakthrough
eco | Aeon Daily | May 12
A new imagination for the whole earth

Gaining traction
culture | New York Times | March 12
Running through Scientology buildings is a worldwide thing

A brillant analysis
psychoactive | Seeing What Is | May 14
Spray satan and the golden calf

Controversial
psychoactive | Psymposia | May 14
Telepathy in Psychedelic Therapy

Ketamine for firefighters
psychoactive | DoubleBlind | May 15
How to portray PAT (Psychedeli Assisted Therapy) for any substance

Safety & ethics
psychoactive | Ecstatic Integration | May 16
US fast forwarding approval of psychedelic therapy creates risks & insecurities

Before dynastic Egypt
culture | Live Science | May 17
The Sahara was populated by nomads and their herds

Substance abuse
psychoactive | The Guardian / May 18
Psilocybin may help people with issues around cocaine

Experienced
psychoactive | The Psychedelic Blog | May 22
7 lessons from 7 years of taking Psychedelics

Arctic Games
culture | New York Times | May 23
Just as tough as you think

Mother to the World
psychoactive/culture |  LinkedIn | May 29
Deepak Chopra’s tribute to Jean Houston, who passed away on May 16.

Germany
psychoactive | Business of Cannabis | April 1
Cannabis legalisation shows no signs of the harm critics predicted

Psychedelic therapy
psychoactive | Latin American Post | April 1
Mexico’s cartels hamper the consideration of novel treatments

Extension
psychoactive | Business of Cannabis | April 2
Cannabis program “ZüriCan” to continue for 2 more years

Interventional psychiatry
psychoactive | Ecstatic Integration | April 3
Big pharma shows big interest

Neural fingerprint
psychoactive | The Guardian | April 6
Psilocybin leads to cross-talk between brain systems

More
psychoactive | NYT | April 7
How psychedelics affect the brain

End of life distress
psychoactive | CBC News | April 7
Terminally ill Canadian patient had to help himself to psilocybin

Other thoughts
psychoactive | DoubleBlind | April 10
Psychedelics and telepathy

France
psychoactive | The Lancet | April 11
IV racemic ketamine approved for the treatment of adult severe suicidal crisis

Aborting a bad trip
psychoactive | The Microdose | April 13
Five questions for emergency physician Gregory Yates

England
psychoactive | Psychedelic Alpha | April 13
Psychedelic research at Cambridge University

Pills & ills
science | BPS Journal | April 14
Capturing addiction recovery

Ibogaine in the US
psychoactive | Psychedelics Today | April 16
Practitioner statement of responsible development

Hidden biodiversity
science | High Country News | April 17
Mycorhizal fungi networks need more protection

Fallout
eco² | The Conversation | April 17
Faraway wars have worrying ecological consequences – also in Switzerland

Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy
psychoactive | Ecstatic Integration | April 17
Two deaths and two serious incidents in Switzerland within two years.

By decree
psychoactive | NYT | April 19
Restrictions on psychedelic drugs loosened in the US

Neurobiology
science | Aeon | April 20
Facts about the brain you want to know

Reefer Madness
psychoactive | NYT | April 20
The propaganda that keeps on giving

German Survey
psychoactive | Leafie | April 20
Use of prescription drugs down by 83% since medicinal cannabis legalisation

Sports
psychoactive | Reasons to be cheerful | April 23
Can psychedelics help athletes recover from brain injury?

A full brain?
science / The Conversation / April 24
What we remember makes all the difference

Chemical frontiers
psychoactive | Focal Points | April 25
Hidden risks of psychedelic treatment

PTSD
psychoactive | The Guardian | April 30
Active-duty US solders to be treated with MDMA  next year

Psilocybin
psychoactive | MedRXiv | March 1
Mental health outcomes following psilocybin sessions within Oregon’s state-regulated model

Ibogaine
psychoactive | New York Times | March 1
Used against trauma all over the world

Relief
psychoactive | Reality Sandwich  March 2
Psychedelics and pain management

Psychedelic Retreats
psychoactive | DoubleBlind | March 4
A critique of the Industry by an insider

Placeholders
psychoactive | BioSpace | March 5
Psychedelics used in lieu of traditional antidepressants

Psilocybin II
psychoactive | New Scientist | March 6
One dose relieves Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) for months

Head shaping
science | Live Science | March 6
An ancient practice finds an explanation.

Healing
culture | Country & Town House | March 6
British landowners are turning to druids and shamans to heal their land

University of Madison-Wisconsin
psychoactive | UW School of Pharmacy | March 9
A professorship for psychedelic science for the eminent researcher Paul Hutson

To stop smoking
psychoactive | JAMA Network | March 10
Psilocybin patch helps more than one with nicotine

Cannabis
psychoactive| Science Direct | March 10
Illegal market recedes as a result of legalisation

Magic mushrooms
psychoactive | Popular Science | March 10
Newly discovered fungus rewrites origins of psilocybe

Transpersonal
psychoactive | NOEMA | March 17
On psychedelic entities

Comparisons
psychoactive | JAMA Network | March 18
Disappointment leads to low scores for psychedelics in unblinded comparative studies

Native boarding schools
culture | High Country News | March 20
Government plans Truth and Reconciliation Commission

Witches
eco | The Conversation | March 20
Ecofeminist symbols for our times

New drugs
psychoactive | The New York Times | March 21
Poisoning people with paper

MDMA
psychoactive | New York Times | March 24
High cost hampers greater number of positive therapy results in Australia

Restoring the brain
psychoactive | UC Berkeley | March 26
Virtual reality and psychedelics help stroke patients regain motor and cognitive function

Long ignored
science | Live Science | March 29
Endometriosis drives a whole body immune response due to inflammation.

Around the moon
science | New York Times | March 30
Going to the moon without landing

Microdosing
psychoactive | ScienceDirect | February
Small, non-psychedelic quantities of psilocybin may help monitor obesity.

Treatment
psychoactive | The Guardian | 1 February
Ex-British Army Chief promotes the use of MDMA for PTSD treatment

Psychedelic narcissism
psychoactive | The Microdose | 2 February
5 questions for Henrik Jungaberle

A convincing solution
psychoactive | Business of Cannabis | 2 February
Swiss cannabis provider sets industrial standards

Ethics
psychoactive | Stat Years | 2 February
Should researchers disclose their own psychedelic use?

Psychedelic Catalysed Innovation
psychoactive | Psychedelic Alpha | 5 February
An Interview with astrobiologist Bruce Dammer

Dopamine
psychoactive | National Geographic | 6 February
How to get high on your own supply.

Stepping up
psychoactive | The Harvard Gazette| 9 February
Professional healthcare provided in ritual and recreational psychedecli settings.

Too high
psychoactive | The New York Times.| 9 February
America has a marijuana problem.

Rewiring the Brain
psychoactive | Live Science| 9 February
Scientists gain understanding of how psychedelics treat PTSD.

Psychedelic Therapy
psychoactive | Psychedelic Alpha | 10 February
Dosing, ritual and related Issues

Solarpunks
eco | Aeon | 10 February
Joining technology with nature to green the world

Agrovoltaics
eco | pv-magazine | 12 February
Solar installations in Spanish vineyards, looking good.

Don’t do it!
psychoactive | The Conversation | 16 February
Anal drug use is dangerous.

Experiential
psychoactive | The Conversation | 18 February
Can psychedelic therapy improve our mental health?

Psychedelic groupthink
psychoactive | NPR | 19 February
Blurring the line between spirituality and profit.

Vegetation
eco | Reasons to be cheerful | 19 February
Zurich’s rooftops are among the greenest worldwide

Religiously
psychoactive | DoubleBlind | 23 February
Getting high with the Bible

The munchies
psychoactive | Nautilus | 23 February
Why we tend to get hungry after using cannabis.

Antarctica
eco | The Conversation | 24 February
Rain is coming to the seventh continent.

Lessons in positivity
culture | The Guardian | 25 February
An Interview with the legendary Stewart Brand

Ancestry
science | Live Science | 27 February
Neanderthal males were hot for human women.

Psychedelics for fun
psychoactive | The Psychedelic Blog | 27 February
“Make no mistake: this is the future.”

Inclusion
psychoactive | BBC | 1 January
Should the National Health Service use psilocybin to treat mental health?

Trial results
psychoactive | Science Direct/ 1 January
LSD Microdosing in Major Depressive Disorder

Reality check
psychoactive | The Psychedelic Blog | 2 January
The psychedelic honeymoon is over.

Cocaine
psychoactive | CBC | 4 January
How one man’s addiction forced the development of modern-day residency programs

Activism
culture| The Conversation | 5 January
How to tackle injustice in small but effective ways

In need of regulation
psychoactive | PharmExec | 6 January
Ketamine’s antidepressant effects increase off-label psychiatric use

Betterment
psychoactive | Victoria News | 7 January
Canadian startup launches first psilocybin wellness trial

Candy-flipping
psychoactive | DoubleBlind  7 January
About mixing MDMA and LSD

Ibogaine & MeO-DMT
psychoactive | Mother Jones | 9 January
Psychedelics as a last hope, but not without danger

Intervention
psychoactive | Futurism | 9 January
Fentanyl overdoses in sharp decline

Stoned Ape
psychoactive | DoubleBlind | 9 January
Terence McKenna’s theory about the origins of consciousness gains traction

Cats
nature | Live Science | 10 January
Did any of the roughly 600 breeds evolve naturally?

Commodification
psychoactive | The Microdose | 12 January
How psychedelics and related medicines are sold

Profanity
science | The Psychologist | 12 January
Does swearing boost physical power?

Bumpy rollout
psychoactive | The New York Times | 13 January
Psilocybin therapy safer than playing golf, expert says, but hard to access

Participatory
culture | reasons to be cheerful | 13 January
In Paris, anyone can help decide how the city spends its money

Ketamine
psychoactive | The Conversation| 14 January
Many young users end up with bladder problems

Thinking like a fungus
nature | The New York Times | 14 January
Evolutionary biologist Toby Kiers wins the Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement

Landholders vs. stockholders
science | Aeon | 15 January
The origin of our political divide

Last rites
psychoactive | The Guardian | 16 January
An interview with Alejandro Jodorowsky

Commercially
psychoactive | Truthdig | 16 January
On the rise of psychedelic marketing

Australia
psychoactive | Psychedelic Alpha | 16 January
Progress and pitfalls in the continent’s psychedelic experiment

Conservation
nature | High Country News | 19 January
Alaska and its public lands

Show me more
psychoactive | Ipsos | 20 January
Americans are ready to know more about psychedelic therapy

By the numbers
psychoactive | RAND | 21 January
Psychedelic use and microdosing 2025

Merry Pranksters
psychoactive | Double Blind | 23 January
An Interview with Ken Babbs

Female pioneers
psychoactive | The Microdose | 26 January
5 Questions for historian Zoë Dubuis about early female psychedelic therapists

Producer for the masses
psychoactive | Psychedelic Press | 27 January
Andy Robert interviews acid chemist Richard Kemp